Eight Secret Tips for Photoshop

Secret Tip 1: When you need to quickly hide the toolbar and multiple floating panels, it is very inconvenient to click the close button on the panel one by one, and then open it again when using it. In fact, you can press the "Shift" and "Tab" keys on the keyboard at the same time, so that the floating panel will be hidden immediately and disappear from the screen. If you press the two keys at the same time, the panel will appear again; if you only press the "Tab" key , the toolbar and the floating panel will be hidden together. Press this key again and they will appear at the same time.

Tip 2: In Photoshop, there are many times when you need to modify the values ​​of settings. Generally, there will be a black triangle on the side of the value box. Click it and a sliding ruler will appear. You can modify the value by dragging the ruler, but sometimes it is not very accurate. At this time, you can press the down arrow key on the keyboard (each press means the value increases by one) and the up arrow key (each press means the value decreases by one) to accurately adjust the value. If you hold down the "Shift" key, each time you press it, the value will increase or decrease by ten.

Tip 3: When you are using the brush tool and want to adjust the opacity, you have to open the settings box, which is very troublesome. At this time you can directly press the number keys on the keyboard to set. For example, when you press the "0" key, the opacity is 100%. The "1" key is 10%. Press "4" first and then "5", then the opacity will be 45%, and so on.

Tip 4: When we want to copy the selected objects in the file, we must use the copy command in the edit menu. You may not find it troublesome to copy once, but if you want to copy multiple times, it will be inconvenient to click again and again. At this time, you can first select the object with the selection tool, then click the move tool, and hold down "Alt". When the cursor turns into two overlapping arrows, one black and one white, drag the mouse to the desired position. To copy multiple times, just release the mouse repeatedly.

Tip Five: When we need multi-layer selection, we can first use the selection tool to select the area in the file and draw a selection virtual box; then hold down the "Alt" key, when the cursor changes to a "+" sign with a small "-" in the lower right corner (this means reducing the selected area or pixels), drag inside the first box Pull out the second box; then hold down the "Shift" key, and when the cursor changes to a large "+" sign with a small "+" in the lower right corner, pull out the third selection box inside the second box. , so that the two can be used in turn, and multi-layer selection can be made. In fact, you can also use this method to select irregular objects, go and experience it yourself.

Tip 6: When we edit a picture file, sometimes we need to remove the color of the picture other than the selected object. In this case, we can press " Delete" key, the area outside the selection area will become background color or transparent, depending on the background content you set.

Tip 7: Remove the moire in the scanned image. Due to printing reasons, the pictures we scan into the computer will have some moire. If we process them on this basis, it will affect the future results. At this time, you can first use "Despeckle" in the "Noise" filter, and the image will become slightly blurred; then use "Sharpen Edge" in the "Sharpen" filter (note that the setting value should be smaller) and then After some processing, you're done. At this time, even if you use a magnifying tool to observe, there will be no moire.

Tip 8: After we use Photoshop for a period of time, a large number of pictures and image files have been stored in the folder. When you want to call a file that you haven't used for a long time and forget its file name, you need to open the files in the folder one by one to find it, which is too troublesome. I have a simple method: there is a Contact Sheet command in Automate under the File menu of Photoshop. It can create a small thumbnail for each file in the folder and store it in an image file. This will facilitate future work. Searching and consulting saves you and me precious time.

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