20 Killer Tips for Photoshop

 Photoshop  1 Response »
Apr 272011
 

Here are some of the must know tips for any Photoshop Guru. Once you have a few of these under your belt, your colleagues will be referring to you as Obi Wan.

These Tips and Tricks work similarly in previous versions of Adobe Creative Suite.

10 Shortcuts to make your life easier

1. Shift + Tab

Most people known that Tab will hide the palettes and toolbar (If you didn’t there’s one bonus tip) but Shift + Tab will only hide the palettes. This will help those on smaller screens.

2. Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + Z  Read more...

Brushes and Photoshop

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Nov 252009
 

Using Photoshop generally means using a brush at some point, and not just for painting. Several tools within Photoshop  also use a brush – Eraser, Dodge, Burn, etc. Here are some useful shortcuts when using a tool that uses brushes…

Click, let go and shift – click elsewhere in your document and you will get a straight line

Click and hold with your mouse button, then hold the shift key, and then move your mouse – you will be constrained to horizontal/vertical lines  Read more...

Finding your way around your commands within Flash Builder

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Nov 242009
 

Again, here are some useful commands that I use to jump around the plethora of commands and menus etc that Flash Builder has.

Cmd/ctl – shift – T – goes through your codebase history and allows you to select a command/variable etc by typing, and it also allows wildcards and uses camel case, e.g. typing in BA will bring up BitmapAsset, ButtonAsset, ByteArray, etc. Typing in *bu will bring up ButtonAsset, BuildInfo, SimpleButton, etc.  Read more...

Finding your way around your code in Flash Builder

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Nov 242009
 

Here are some very useful shortcuts that I personally use. In the past year or so I have decided to use Flash Builder to do most of my Actionscript coding, as a result I keep on finding the need to jump around my class files a lot. Here are a few of my favourite shortcuts when using Flash Builder…

Cmd/Ctl – click on a variable name or function and you will jump you to the definition of that variable or function. This is very useful when you have a lot of code and want to quickly edit a particular variable or function. It will also highlight all instances/calls at the same time.  Read more...