Photoshop tips for working efficiently

elven

I've picked up a good few tips over the time I've been using ps, not just keyboard shortcuts but quicker ways to do particular things. I just found a document with a ton of them, all together, and, well, my brain hurts! But it's a great reference, if you pick up two or three at a time and try them out so you can remember next time - it usually saves you going into manu options or having to click three times instead of once, that sort of thing.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/2162/120-Adobe-Photoshop-Tips

Stuff like holding down shift while using the crop tool will constrain it to a square ratio, holding down alt while in a curves/levels/hue-sat options box will show you a reset button, holding down space will change your tool to the hand so you can quickly move about a large image - stuff like that.

Now I just need a huge desk to fit everything on so I can do the keyboard shortcuts while using my tablet

bovril

cheers missus, great find.

sineadw

Oooo Thankee

5uspect

Handy stuff indeed, I knew a few of them before but feck thats a lot.

Two of my favs are ALT clicking on a layer mask thumbnail to display it onscreen.
(ALT click on the image thumbnail to go back to the image)

Holding ALT when moving a levels slider to see a threshold map showing clipping coloured by channel.

jennyrusks

Great list, thanks. Now to find somewhere in my brain to store all of this...