Hey guys! 
noticed this forum and thought I can give out a few tricks.
If it's ok, I'd like to color each tip, so it would not look messy, and you could look at each tip as a single thread (so you won't get paranoid I know I will even tho it's my thread XD )
Well first of all, I want to share the shortcuts I use, this will basicaly help new photoshopers.
Ctrl + T - Transform
Ctrl + J - Duplicate current layer
Z - Zoom tool, Hold ALT to zoom-out tool
Hold Space - Move around your canvas, without de-selecting any tool!
[ and ] keys - Resizes the brush
* Keep the 3 last shortcuts by your side. when I work, I use them constantly, that it became my second nature. I don't even notice doing them that much, that when I wrote this, I had to go to photoshop to look at what keys I press
That's that. the rest you can learn by simply holding the mouse on tools, or in the menus, look at the right side of each command.
Another tip is: happens to you when you try to select something but noticed you didn't start at the right point, so you finish the selecting, than have to click it or click outside of it etc. with a circle selection it doesn't even matter, you can try 10 times before you get the actual spot.
What you can do is, while selecting and holding the mouse, hold down the Space key, and move your mouse. you're selection will move, so you could get the correct point within a second!
When I'm trying to cut backgrounds out, and stuff like that. To be honest, I don't do it like most people, at all. I'd be suprised if more people do this, since I never found a guide that says to do so.
What I do, is use masks. take the layer you're using. add a mask to it, using the brush tool, delete, and undelete again, use the brush wisely and you can get 100% realistic cut, within a matter of around 1 minute!!! it's a really great way!
To know more about mask, visit this thread, you'll get quite a few answers.
Well, I'll wrap this up. I have couple of more tricks, that will help also intermidate photoshopers, and not only beginners. but I will write them in another thread.
noticed this forum and thought I can give out a few tricks.If it's ok, I'd like to color each tip, so it would not look messy, and you could look at each tip as a single thread (so you won't get paranoid
I know I will even tho it's my thread XD )Well first of all, I want to share the shortcuts I use, this will basicaly help new photoshopers.
Ctrl + T - Transform
Ctrl + J - Duplicate current layer
Z - Zoom tool, Hold ALT to zoom-out tool
Hold Space - Move around your canvas, without de-selecting any tool!
[ and ] keys - Resizes the brush
* Keep the 3 last shortcuts by your side. when I work, I use them constantly, that it became my second nature. I don't even notice doing them that much, that when I wrote this, I had to go to photoshop to look at what keys I press
That's that. the rest you can learn by simply holding the mouse on tools, or in the menus, look at the right side of each command.
Another tip is: happens to you when you try to select something but noticed you didn't start at the right point, so you finish the selecting, than have to click it or click outside of it etc. with a circle selection it doesn't even matter, you can try 10 times before you get the actual spot.
What you can do is, while selecting and holding the mouse, hold down the Space key, and move your mouse. you're selection will move, so you could get the correct point within a second!
When I'm trying to cut backgrounds out, and stuff like that. To be honest, I don't do it like most people, at all. I'd be suprised if more people do this, since I never found a guide that says to do so.
What I do, is use masks. take the layer you're using. add a mask to it, using the brush tool, delete, and undelete again, use the brush wisely and you can get 100% realistic cut, within a matter of around 1 minute!!! it's a really great way!
To know more about mask, visit this thread, you'll get quite a few answers.
Well, I'll wrap this up. I have couple of more tricks, that will help also intermidate photoshopers, and not only beginners. but I will write them in another thread.
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