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Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

11/17/2006 04:51:10 PM · #1

Sometimes some people know just the small tricks in Photoshop...

Here's a small start!

- For a straight line: click at the beginning point, and hold shift while clicking the next point
- Make brush size smaller: push [
- Enlarge brush size: push ]
- Delete part of selection: hold shift while selecting the part you don't want to be selected.

There's more to explore, share those tricks!

fotomann_forever

11/17/2006 04:54:27 PM · #2

Alt-F4 (on Windows) Closes Photoshop :-)

11/17/2006 04:56:44 PM · #3

Shift drag/drop a layer into a new image to auto-align it.

Alt-menu select an item to repeat the previous settings in a dialog

hanneke

Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

11/17/2006 04:57:08 PM · #4

- one step back: Ctrl (or the apple button) + z

jfriesen

Panasonic LUMIX GH5

Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II

11/17/2006 04:58:33 PM · #5

Does CTRL + Y REdo???

digitalknight

Mattel Barbie Photo Designer Digital Camera

11/17/2006 05:00:52 PM · #6

to step back through the history file (or the steps you have taken) -

CNTRL-ALT-Z

CMD-OPT-Z on the mac - the TRUE photo editors computer ;-p

Message edited by author 2006-11-17 17:03:16.

fotomann_forever

11/17/2006 05:01:53 PM · #7

Painting on a Soft Light layer with Black and white brushes works much better than the Dodge/Burn tools.

11/17/2006 05:03:08 PM · #8

CS2 keyboard shortcuts

Print it out and learn em. It'll save a lot of time ;)

Mr_Pants

SiPix Blink

11/17/2006 05:03:44 PM · #9

Originally posted by biteme:

If you hold down the shift key while pressing the left and right square bracket keys, you alter the softness of the brush.

11/17/2006 05:04:07 PM · #10

Filters are almost always more effective applied to mask than applying them directly to the image.

11/17/2006 05:07:57 PM · #11

Use the 'measure' tool (hides under the eyedropper tool - looks like a ruler) along a straight edge in your image, that isn't vertical or horizontal.

Pick Image->rotate and photoshop automagically fills in the amount to rotate to make that line a perfect horizontal/vertical line.

It's better to use Image->Free Transform to fix a slanted horizon than using the rotate tools. If you use the transform, you don't have to crop the image. If you rotate, you do. (just don't try that in basic rules apparently)

hanneke

Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

11/17/2006 05:10:06 PM · #12

Originally posted by jfriesen:

Does CTRL + Y REdo???

CTRL + z redo's too, after undo ofcourse ;)

yanko

Carl Zeiss 50mm ZE f/1.4 Planar T for Canon

11/17/2006 05:11:48 PM · #13

Originally posted by Gordon:

You left out one step:

Image -> Rotate -> Arbitrary

Sony 24-70mm F4 Vario-Tessar T* FE OSS

11/17/2006 05:18:49 PM · #14

Originally posted by yanko:

Image -> Rotate -> Arbitrary

;)

One to Add:
Use the shift key to hold proportions when dragging a corner, or hold the
shift key and start dragging a box and have a perfect square when done.

Bear_Music

Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra

11/17/2006 05:20:23 PM · #15

If you want to apply a gradient (not basic-legal but fine in advanced) use cntrl-shift-n to create a new empty layer, click "multiply" mode, and accept to create the layer. Lay your gradient down on the empty layer. You can now adjust hue/saturation directly in this layer to fine-tune the color of the gradient, and fade the layer in and out to optimize the result. "Multiply" mode keeps it from acting on the darker areas of the image (assuming the gradient was paler than the darkest areas), allowing you to lay a sky gradient down in skies with silhouetted trees etc without affecting the darker, silhouetted non-sky portions much, if at all; in other words, no selection halos.

R.

yanko

Carl Zeiss 50mm ZE f/1.4 Planar T for Canon

11/17/2006 05:31:06 PM · #16

Using Edit/Assign Profile and choosing a different profile can sometimes be an easy way to boost the color especially if you didn't start out using Adobe RGB to begin with. Just be sure to use Edit/Convert (to sRGB) before saving and uploading to the web.

Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM

11/17/2006 05:38:39 PM · #17

In Windows Explorer:
Find the image, then Right-Click, Sent to, Mail Recipient, type in bear_music @ GradientMyPicturePlease.com

idnic

Canon EOS-60D

11/17/2006 05:41:13 PM · #18

Originally posted by BradP:

In Windows Explorer:
Find the image, then Right-Click, Sent to, Mail Recipient, type in bear_music @ GradientMyPicturePlease.com

ROFL

Sony 24-70mm F4 Vario-Tessar T* FE OSS

11/17/2006 09:03:12 PM · #19

user (me)

:-#

Bear_Music

Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra

11/17/2006 10:16:24 PM · #20

Originally posted by BradP:

In Windows Explorer:
Find the image, then Right-Click, Sent to, Mail Recipient, type in bear_music @ GradientMyPicturePlease.com

That's almost enough to persuade me to leave this site forever and find something more fruitful to do with my time :-(

R.

11/17/2006 10:25:02 PM · #21

:-(
It "was" supposed to be a tongue-in-cheek form of humor.

Had it not been for you, and what you've shared here, I probably still wouldn't have a clue how to do a gradient,
as I had tried so many times, omitting one key step - switch to multiply in the layer properties!