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    85 Hidden Tips & Secrets For photoshop
    1. Press Tab will hide tool bar and palette, Shift+Tab will hide only palette.

    2. Hold Shift + click the top blue bar for toolbar and palette will move them to the nearest edge.

    3. Double click the top blue bar, on any palette window, to minimize it.

    4. Double click the gray background will bring up open file option, Hold Shift+double click will open up the browser.

    5. Sick of the default gray background around your image? Select paint bucket, hold shift and click on the gray background, it will change to whatever color you have in your foreground color box.

    6. In Photoshop, all "Cancel" buttons in a window can be changed to a "Reset" button by holding Alt.

    7. Caps lock will switch your cursor for accuracy.

    8. Press F button, it will switch between 3 different screen modes and give you more working area.

    9. To draw a straight line, click then move to the end point and hold shift + click.

    10. Hold Ctrl will temporary make any tool into move tool until you release Ctrl.

    11. Ctrl + Alt and click drag the image, it will make a duplication of the current image over lay on top.

    12. Hold Space bar, it will make any tool into "Hand Tool" until you release Space bar.

    13. While in Zoom Tool, Ctrl+space = zoom in, alt+space = zoom out.

    14. Hold Ctrl and press "+" or "-" it will change the % for image in navigator window.

    15. When Using eyedropper tool to capture foreground color, hold Alt and click, it will instantly capture the color for background.

    16. With Measure Tool, draw a line then hold Alt and draw another line from the end of the first line, it will measure the angle.

    17. Ctrl+Alt+Z and Ctrl+Shift+Z will go back and forth in the history.

    18. Alt+Backspace and Ctrl+Backspace will fill in the whole screen with foreground color or background color, Shift+backspace will bring up option window, Alt+Shift+Backspace and Ctrl+Shift+Backspace, will fill the image with foreground or background color but will leave the alpha transparent area alone.

    19. When free transforming with Ctrl+T, hold Alt to keep the original image and then to transform a duplicated layer of it. Ctrl+Shift+T to repeat whatever you did in the last transform.

    20. To make sure your Crop is on the edge of the image, hold Ctrl while cropping.

    21. Ctrl+J will duplicate the current layer.

    22. Ctrl+Shift+E will merge all visible layers to one layer, Ctrl+Shift+Alt+E will make a copy of the original and merge all visible layers.

    23. While using Marquee Tools, hold Alt it will make the starting point as a center of the selection.

    24. Ctrl + D to deselect, Ctrl+Shift+D to reselect what you deselected.

    25. While selecting with Marquee tool, pressing the space bar can allow you to move the selection.

    26. Hold Shift and press "+" or "-" it will switch between the layer mode:

    N = Normal
    I = Dissolve
    M = Multiply
    S = Screen
    O = Overlay
    F = Soft Light
    H = Hard Light
    D = Color Dodge
    B = Color Burn
    K = Darken
    G = Lighten
    E = Difference
    X = Exclusion
    U = Hue
    T = Saturation
    C = Color
    Y = Luminosity
    Q = Behind 1
    L = Threshold 2
    R = Clear 3
    W = Shadow 4
    V = Midtones 4
    Z = Highlights 4


    ***The shortcut works even for following situation:

    ***Alpha turned off, Indexed Mode, Line tool, Bucket Tools, Dodge and Burn Tools

    27. While using Brush or any other tools, change the opacity by typing the number.

    *** type one number for % of it's ten times [4=40%]

    ***type two number for exact % [press 7 then 2 will get 72%]

    28. Hold Alt while clicking on the eye icon beside the layer, it will hide all other layers.

    29. Hold Alt while clicking the pen icon beside the layer, it will unchain this layer from all layers.

    30. Select a layer, hold Alt and click the top edge of another layer, it will group them.

    31. Hold Alt and click the button "Create a new layer", it will create a new adjustment layer.

    32. Select a layer and hold Alt, then click on the garbage can button. It will instantly delete the layer, marquee where you want alpha and Ctrl+click the "Create new channel" button, it will create an alpha only on the area you marquee.

    33. File> Automate > Contact Sheet: this can create a small thumbnail for every file, this can save you some time from searching.

    34. When Move Tool is selected, toolbox on top can be useful from time to time, these are "Auto select layer" and "Show bounding box".

    35. While Move Tool is selected, hold Shift (Alt+Shift+Right click) and allow whether or not to make a current layer chain with your upper layer.

    36. With grid on, click the top left corner of the grid and drag to anywhere on the image to set the pivot, double clicking on the icon again reset the pivot.

    37. After, draw a path on the image with pen tool, Ctrl+shift+H can hide/show it.

    38. Control Navigator with keyboard sometimes can be more time efficient than mouse.

    ***

    Home = move to top left corner
    End = move to right bottom corner
    PageUp = move up one page
    PageDown = move down one page
    Ctrl+PageUp = move left one page
    Ctrl+PageDown = move right one page
    Shift+PageUp = move up 10 pixel
    Shift+PageDown = move down 10 pixel
    Ctrl+Shift+PageUp = move left 10 pixel
    Ctrl+Shift+PageDown = move right 10 pixel


    39. Ctrl+Tab allows you to switch between different image files you are working on.


    40. F12 = Revert to how the file was the last time you saved it.


    41. Shortcuts for Channel: RGB, CMYK, indexed color...

    ***

    Ctrl+"~" = RGB
    Ctrl+1 = red
    Ctrl+2 = green
    Ctrl+3 = blue
    Ctrl+4 = other path
    Ctrl+9 = other path
    Ctrl+"~" = CMYK
    Ctrl+1 = light green
    Ctrl+2 = pink red
    Ctrl+3 = yellow
    Ctrl+4 = black
    Ctrl+5 = other path
    Ctrl+9 = other path
    Ctrl+1 = Indexed
    Ctrl+2 = other path
    Ctrl+9 = other path

    42. hold Ctrl then you can draw a red box in the Navigator thumbnail for viewing.

    43. Hold Alt and click on any of the history steps, that step will be copied and become the most recent one.

    44. Alt drag a step from a serial action can copy it to another action.

    45. Alt-click the flare preview thumb, and you can fill in numerical co-ordinates for lens flare.

    46. Holding Shift + Alt while transforming an object will do it proportionally, from the center.

    47. If you have the move tool selected and you want something duplicated just hold the alt key and move the image, holding the Shift + Alt while doing this, it will move it along one axis.

    48. If you want to straighten an image that is crooked (maybe from scanning), click on the eyedropper tool or hit the I key 3 times to get the ruler. Click on the left side of the straight edge, then the right side of the straight (but crooked) edge. The choose Image> Rotate Canvas> Arbitrary, Photoshop will give you the degrees of rotation you just click ok.

    49. If you create something in Illustrator, copy and paste it in Photoshop, it will ask you if you want this to be a pixel, path, or shape layer.

    50. If you have a mask on a layer and you want to place a image in there and keep the mask. Simply open the image, say copy, and then Ctrl click on the layer to select the mask and use Shift + Ctrl + V to paste it into the mask which will also put it on a new layer as well.

    51. To center an image, Ctrl + A , Ctrl + X, Ctrl + V, I think it also puts that image on a new layer.

    52. Ctrl+E will merge the highlighted layer down to the next

    53. When you have a brush selected, using [ or ] will scroll up or down that brush list.

    54. Double clicking the zoom tool will make the image 100%, double clicking the hand tool will fit the image to your screen resolution.
    55. Typing Content:

    Ctrl + H will hide the highlight on your selected type.

    If you click once while your type is selected on the font list, you can use your arrows to scroll up and down and see the fonts change on the fly!

    Alt + Left or Right arrows will change your tracking in increments of 10
    Ctrl + Alt + Left or Right arrows will change your tracking in increments of 100
    Ctrl + Alt + Up or Down arrows will change your leading in increments of 10 pts
    Shift + Ctrl with < or > will change your font size in increments of 2 pts

    56. Ctrl + Alt + T to make a copy of the layer in which you want to transform.

    57. Ctrl + Alt + Right arrow. duplicates the layer you are on.

    58. Change the active layer : Alt + [ or ].

    59. Move the active layer up and down : Ctrl + [ or ].

    60. Link 2 layers: with move tool click in the first layer hold Shift and click in the second one.

    61. Ctrl+[plus key] will let you zoom in on an image anytime while Ctrl+[minus key] zooms out. Ctrl+Alt+[plus key] will zoom in AND RESIZE the window to fit the image size... same for Ctrl+Alt+[minus key] as well.

    62. When using the Polygonal Lasso Tool, click backspace to undo a lasso step.

    63. Pressing X will switch the selected foreground and background colors.

    64. Pressing D will reset the foreground and backgrounds colors to black and white.

    65. If your image has multiple layers, create a Marquee selection and press Ctrl+Shift+Cit won't work if you selected a hidden layer) will copy the image into memory as if they were flattened! Paste it on a new document to see the result.

    66. Ctrl+Alt+Z will do multiple undo, versus just one.

    67. Ctrl+click a layer thumbnail to select the layer transparency

    68. To see what your layer mask looks like (and edit it), Alt+click its thumbnail in the layers palette

    69. Press and hold Ctrl+Alt and click the Help bar with your mouse, drag it down and highlight "About Photoshop" and let go of the left mouse button for a different About Photoshop splash/screen.

    70. When using Polygon lasso tool hold Shift to make a perfect line, it goes every 30 degrees


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    Thank u very much dude thats was amazing sharing thx a lot dude once again keep sharing moor

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    Very Nice, keep sharing, thanks alot.....
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