Seventy-five Tips for Adobe Photoshop (1)

The reason why Photoshop still has good functionality while maintaining good usability is largely due to its neat and concise interface and easy to use customizability (in addition to its large number of tools and commands). In fact, Photoshop has a lot of amazing "hide" features. No matter how many years you use Photoshop, you will continue to discover more and more things. I suspect there will be people who declare that he knows about Photoshop's "all" thing (perhaps ADOBE's software engineers want it).

The following 75 tips will help you (whether you are a novice or an experienced expert) to master some of the "hidden" features of Photoshop to help you complete complex tasks faster and more efficiently; or they will tell you something you have previously Do not know the ability of PHTOSHOP! For your convenience, we divide them into eight parts:

*Interface skills

1). You may know that pressing the Tab key hides the Toolbox and the Floating Panel, as well as pressing the Shift+Tab key to hide only the Floating Panel (while leaving the toolbar visible).

2). Hold down the Shift key and click on the floating panel's title bar (?123; bars at the top) to snap it to the nearest screen edge.

3). Double-click on each column (that is, the titled one) on the floating panel to minimize it. With the minimize button on the floating panel, you can switch between compact mode (only minimal options and content is visible) and normal mode (all options and content on the display panel).

4). The current tool's options panel can be opened by pressing the Enter key (or by double-clicking the tool button on the toolbox). Otherwise, it can only be opened by the Window/Show Options command on the menu.

5). Use the scaling area (in the bottom left corner of the Photoshop form or navigator panel) to quickly select an exact display ratio. When entering a value, press SHIFT+ENTER to enable the scaling area.

6). To change the display information of the status area (at the bottom of the window, the default display file size can be opened via Window/Show Status Bar), press the button on the status area to select a new item from the pop-up menu. Click on the left area of ​​the button on the status area to display the current file's print size, Alt-click to display the file size and resolution, and Ctrl-click to display the collage.

7). Tired of gray canvas background? Select Bucket Tool [K] (Packet Bucket) Press Shift to click on the edge of the canvas to set the background color of the canvas to the current foreground color. (Note: To revert to the default color, set the foreground color to 25% grayscale (R192, G192, B192) and hold down Shift again to click on the canvas edge.)

8). The Cancel button in all dialogs in Photoshop can be changed to the Reset button by holding down the Alt key. This allows you to easily return to the initial value without canceling it again.

9). The Caps Lock key on the keyboard can control the cursor to switch between the exact state and the standard state. Note: If the Photoshop parameter [Ctrl+K, Ctrl+3] (File/Preferences/ Display & Cursors...) has set the cursor to the exact state, the Caps Lock key will not work.

10). Press "F" to switch between Photoshop's three different screen display modes (Standard Display Mode → Full Screen Display Mode with Menu → Full Screen Display Mode) (or use the buttons at the bottom of the Toolbox). Tip: Press Shift+F in full screen mode to toggle whether to display the menu. Double-click on the background of Photoshop to open the file command [Ctrl+O] (File/Open).

11). Hold down Shift and click on the color bar under the color panel to change the type of chromatogram displayed. Alternatively, you can right-click on the color bar and select another color mode from the pop-up color bar options menu.

12). Right-click on the title bar of the picture window to quickly use some commands, such as the canvas size command, image size command, and copy. Click on any blank (gray) area on the swatch palette to add a custom color to the swatch, hold down the Ctrl key to subtract a color, and hold down Shift Click to replace a color.

13). By copying and pasting the hexadecimal color values ​​displayed in the Photoshop Color Picker, you can exchange color data between Photoshop and other programs (other programs that support hexadecimal color values).