Chris Spooner’s excellent Blog.SpoonGraphics has come up with another winner: 20 tips that, while seemingly insignificant, can add up to a real speed increase when you’re working in Photoshop.
Here’s what you’ll learn to do:
1. Hold Spacebar to move a selection
2. Display larger font previews
3. Change values with the cursor keys
4. Quickly zoom back to 100%
5. Toggle visibility of multiply layers
6. Hide or show all other layers
7. Load the selection of a layer
8. Quickly toggle between blending modes
9. Toggle palette visibility
10. Fit to full screen
11. Switch to precision cursor mode
12. Increase and decrease brush size
13. Rotate a Photoshop brush
14. Quickly adjust layer opacity
15. Auto select layers or groups
16. Automatically load files into layers
17. Easily create new guides
18. Change layer palette thumbnail sizes
19. Copy multiple layers
20. Move items with super nudge
For the how-tos and images, head to Blog.SpoonGraphics.
This article was last modified on December 14, 2022
This article was first published on October 20, 2009
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