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Tips & Tricks

Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 10:18 pm
by Josh
Photoshop has many little shortcuts and lots of unused nifty things that will speed up the time for navigating through photoshop, faster and easier features, and the best one: just easier use of photoshop. [i]If you have any tips & tricks, go ahead and post them and we will update this original post so everyon ecan see all tips & tricks in one post.[/i]

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[*][b]Repeat Filter[/b]
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[*]CTRL + F
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[*][b]Repeat Filter (Change Settings)[/b]
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[*]CTRL + ALT + F
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[*][b]Scrubby Sliders[/b]
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[*]Hover over field text, click and hold, drag left or right to increase/decrease editbox value
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[*][b]Retreive Startup Window[/b]
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[*]Menu Help > Welcome Screen. If you want it to start up with Photoshop than tick the box at the bottom of the dialog box. If not, untick the box at the bottom of the dialog box.
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[*][b]Nudge ten pixels at a time[/b]
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[*]When using the move tool to nudge parts or everything in a layer, hold down shift when using the move tool and it will move 10 pixels at a time.
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[*][b]Get your 3D Transform filter back[/b]
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[*]Ever wonder where that 3D Transform filter went? Adobe took it out with the newer releases of Photoshop. Adobe was nice enough to keep the filter on the install disc\'s though. Just pop in your Photoshop Resources and Extras disc, navigate to the \"goodies\" folder and find the 3D Transform and move it to your filters folder where you installed Photoshop.
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[*][b]Quicky change ruler units to pixels[/b]
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[*]Tired of going through all the menus or right clicking to change the rulers units to pixels? Try a CMD + Click on the rulers.
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[*][b]Change Hue/Saturation[/b] (Submitted by Endophyte)
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[*]CTRL + U
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[*][b]Undoing an action[/b] (Submitted by Endophyte)
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[*]CTRL + ALT + Z
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[*][b]Toggle Rulers on/off[/b] (Submitted by Endophyte)
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[*]CTRL + R
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[*][b]Change Color Balance[/b] (Submitted by Hoax)
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[*]CTRL + B
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[*][b]Adjust Levels[/b] (Submitted by Hoax)
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[*]CTRL + L
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Tips & Tricks

Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 11:16 pm
by Endo
Commands I frequently use in photoshop would have to be

[b]Ctrl+U[/b] To change the Hue/Saturation of an object
[b]Ctrl+Alt+Z[/b] To undo (I use this far to much)
[b]Ctrl+R[/b] To turn off/on rulers

Tips & Tricks

Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 8:01 am
by Marko
CTRL+B for colour balance
CTRL+L for adjusting levels

Tips & Tricks

Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 8:44 pm
by Decessus
[quote name=\'ноax\' post=\'33008\' date=\'May 6 2006, 01:01 AM\']CTRL+B for colour balance
CTRL+L for adjusting levels[/quote]

the one i use the most is..... ALT + any tool im using /blum.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':P\' />

Tips & Tricks

Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 4:07 pm
by Tibs
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Tips & Tricks

Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 8:38 am
by Maya9
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