More Photoshop Tips and Tricks...

These Function Key shortcuts were posted by Marcie on the Digital Designer Shop blog on Monday but I thought I would re-post them in case you missed them!

Manic Monday Photoshop Tips: Function Keys Shortcuts


It's been awhile since I posted keyboard shortcuts so here is a list of useful Photoshop shortcuts using the Function Keys.

Function Keys Shortcuts

Function	Windows	Macintosh
Start Help	F1	Help Key
Cut	F2	F2
Copy	F3	F3
Paste	F4	F4
Show/Hide Brush Panel	F5	F5
Show/Hide Color Panel	F6	F6
Show/Hide Layers Panel	F7	F7
Show/Hide Info Panel	F8	F8
Show/Hide Actions Panel	F9	Option +F9
Revert	F12	F12

New Photoshop Tips...

 Photoshop Tips: Delete All Empty Layers

Have you ever been working on a large Photoshop project with lots of layers and wanted a quick way to delete all the empty layers? Sure you can go through and delete them manually one by one but that could take a long time. Instead go to File Menu, then Scripts and choose Delete All Empty Layers. Viola! All the empty layers are gone as simple as that.


This tip and more can be found each Monday at the Digital Designer Shop blog.

New Tips and Tricks for Photoshop

The tip today is from Marcie at Digital Designer Shop. Each Monday you can find a new tip for Photoshop at the DDS Blog.

 

Manic Monday Photoshop Tip: Layer Selection Shortcut

Are you a fan of using the Auto Select feature but hate having to toggle it on and off? Then you’ll love today’s tip! With the move tool (V) selected simply ctrl click (command for a Mac) on the object and it automatically selects the layer. That’s it! I might 

actually use this feature now that it’s so handy to activate.

 

Tips and Tricks for Photoshop

Here's another great tip from Marci at the Digital Designer Shop Blog. To keep up on all the new happenings at DDS, subscribe to the newsletter by using the signup link on the sidebar of this blog.

Now let's see what Marci has for us today...

Manic Monday Photoshop Tip: Keyboard Shortcuts For Changing Brush Size

Hopefully,  following along with these Manic Monday Photoshop tips is helping you become more efficient in Photoshop and therefore giving you more time to scrapbook! Try to work the tips into your daily workflow and before you know it you will have them all memorized.  Special thanks to Kathleen for sharing  today’s tip about changing the size of the brush!

For review here are the basic brush tool commands that we previously covered:

• B (Brush Tool) — I’m constantly using this command along with the hand and zoom tools.
• [ (Decrease Brush Size) — Quickly decrease your brush size to get into those tighter spots.
• ] (Increase Brush Size) — Quickly increase your brush size for the larger areas.

With any painting or brush tool active you can use the shortcuts below to easily and precisely change the brush size by dragging the mouse or pen tool.  This is super cool because you'll see an immediate, interactive on-screen visual as you drag your mouse or pen tool. 

Notes:

The commands for Mac and PC are different so be sure to use the correct one for your machine.

Hint hold down the alt/option key and then drag to the right to increase or drag to the left to decrease.

Macintosh:

Change brush size: option-ctrl-drag
Change brush edge softness: command-option-ctrl-drag

Windows:
Change brush size: alt-right mouse button drag
Change brush edge softness: shift-alt-right mouse button drag

That’s it for this week. See you back here next Monday with another Photoshop Tip.

Marcie

Tips and Tricks for Photoshop

Here's another Photoshop tip that Marcie posted on the Digital Designer Shop Blog. I thought I would share it with you. To check the blog for more tips and tricks each Monday, just click Digital Designer Shop Blog. 

Manic Monday Photoshop Tips: Reset Dialog

Have you ever canceled a dialog menu so that you could start over?  If so this shortcut is sure to make your day! When working with any dialog menu that uses the OK or Cancel option simply press and hold the Alt (Mac: Option) key when you are in the dialog menu and the Cancel button will turn into a Reset button. This will allow you to try the effect again without having to leave the panel.