Jun 03, 2007

10 Photoshop Tool Secrets

9 Comments
By Alan Who
Posted In Photoshop

10 Photoshop hidden techniques, tips and shortcuts to increase your speed and use of the Photoshop tools.

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1 Quickly Access Related Tools

  1. Hold alt and click on a particular tool’s icon to toggle related tools.

2 The Move Tool

  1. Hold CTRL to access the Move tool at anytime.

3 Duplicate Current Layer

  1. Hold CTRL and ALT to drag a duplicate of the current layer.

4 Use The Eyedropper Tool To Choose A Background Colour

  1. With the Eyedropper tool (I) selected, hold ALT when selecting colours from the image window to change the document background color.

5 Access The Hand Tool

  1. Hold the SPACE BAR to access the Hand tool (H).

6 Copy Colour Values To The Clipboard

  1. With the Eyedropper tool (I) selected, right click on an image to reveal a menu.
  2. Select Copy Color To Html.
  3. The hexadecimanl value will then be on the clipboard ready to pasted wherever you choose.

7 Toggle Quickmask Mode

  1. Simply press Q to toggle between Standard mode and Quickmask mode.

8 Quickly Increase/Decrease Brush Size

  1. Press [ to increase the size of the active brush.
  2. Press ] to decrease the size of the active brush.

9 Zoom In and Out Effectively

  1. Press CTRL + to zoom in.
  2. Press CTRL - to zoom out.

10 Access The Zoom Tool Menu

  1. With the Zoom tool (Z) selected, right click on the image window to reveal the Zoom tool menu.
  2. The menu includes the following options; Fit On Screen, Actual Pixels, Print Size, and Zoom In and Zoom Out.

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9 Comments Add Your Own Comment

  1. 2007 June 12
    Frank permalink

    Thanks for the video i enjoyed it, even thou there pretty simple and i wouldn’t say there Photoshop Secrets cause there’s way more harder stuff to learn.
    Overal great Tutorial and i learned a few new shortcuts that may be helpfull.

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  2. 2007 June 14
    sidhu permalink

    thank u so much

    tell me onther shotcuts

    Reply
  3. 2007 June 21
    june permalink

    Nice tips !!
    I’ll try using it ^^

    Reply
  4. 2007 June 24
    |S|iri|S| permalink

    I don’t know about you, but I find it easier to access the related tools the regular way. =P

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  5. 2007 July 10
    AlanWho permalink

    Yes |S|iri|S| I agree with you, but I wanted to include another way to access related tools that very few people know about …

    Reply
  6. 2007 August 22
    shanti permalink

    Thank you so much

    Reply
  7. 2009 November 12
    Arun permalink

    Thanks…Please Kindly include some more tips also…It may useful to us…

    Reply
  8. 2009 November 12
    Arun permalink

    Thanks alot….Kindly include some more tips also….It may useful to us….

    Reply
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