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Photoshop Tips & Tricks — Variety Pack Volume 5
Here is a collection of useful tips and tricks to improve your Photoshop skills.
Cropping Non-rectangular Selections
Have you noticed that you can apply the crop command even if your selection is not a rectangular. It can be any shape. Photoshop will detect the most extreme pixels of your selection in each direction and will crop the image accordingly.
Commit Text Changes Shortcut
When you're working with text in Photoshop you may lose changes because you're in the Flash/Illustrator habit of hitting Esc to 'get out' of editing mode with the text tool (while saving changes).
You probably know there's the little "Commit current edit" check mark in the properties toolbar or alternatively, you can switch from the text tool to the V tool, but if you're looking for a shortcut you can just press Command-Enter (PC: Control-Enter) to commit changes.
Quick Switch Visibility And Linking
If you have to switch visibility or linking in Photoshop you would click the eye or the chain icon left to the layer. But what if you have to do this to 30 different items? Are you gonna click them one by one? You guessed right - no.
Open the layers palette to full size so it stretches from the top to the bottom of the screen. Press the little arrow on the top right corner and select palette options and choose a small icon size so that you can fit as many layers on the palette as possible. Now you can fit 30 layers and have them all visible at the same time on a 20" monitor.
To switch visibility or linking on all of them at once - click and hold the icon and drag through all the layers.
Layer Extent At A Glance
Let's say your object is larger than your canvas and some of its parts are not visible. If you want to quickly have an understanding of how big the object is you can press Command+T (PC: Control+T) to access the Free Transform tool, which shows you the boundaries of your object even outside of the canvas area.
Then just hit ESC to abort the operation. This is much quicker than moving the object back and forth.
Delete Swatch From Color Palette
You surely know that in Photoshop you can drop the foreground color to the swatches palette for later reference just by clicking on an empty area of the swatches palette.
But, did you know that it's as easy to delete one too? Unfortunately just dragging the swatch out won't work. However, you can drag it to the tiny trash icon. Even simpler is to press the Alt (Option) key and the cursor turns into a scissor that will allow you to delete a swatch instantly just by clicking on it.
Keep your color palette tidy and if you spent lot of time setting it up, make sure to save it for later use together with the project you worked on.
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SiteGrinder Photoshop Plugin - CSS Web Tool
There often seems to be a strict division of labor within the world of web design and development. Creative professionals tend to stick to the Photoshop domain, while those well-versed in scripting are left to the task of implementing their work. Indeed, the two realms are quite different from each other, to which any of us even vaguely familiar with either can easily attest.
Essentially, Photoshop is a no-holds-barred design studio, offering the artist a seemingly endless array of creative options. On the other hand, HTML, CSS, Java and the like follow strict rules of engagement, requiring the developer to take any number of esoteric concerns into consideration in order to ensure that designs are properly displayed on the web.
Turn Photoshop Into A Complete Web Design Tool
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By generating web pages directly from Photoshop, you'll be able to spend much more time on the creative end of the spectrum, since you'll know right off the bat how well particular designs will translate to the web. No more going back to the Photoshop drawing board after getting a phone call from your development team, telling you that what you had envisioned doesn't have a chance of being displayed on the web. You can immediately visually and interactively test your designs, which permits you to then make changes to either esthetics or functions while it's still relatively early on in the design process.
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