Quick photoshop tips

[DanClarke]

Just thought id post some little tips in here and add them as i think of them.

ill start with fullscreen mode, use this (press the F key until the image surround goes back), handy for keeping tab of range on your image by having a black surround.

[Nikolas]

Just a quick thought. There was a thread, not so long ago, called "How to:"

If you'd like to add all these tips (very usefull indeed) there that thread could be turned into some kind of reference (although I'm aware that it's not exactly the same...).

Anyway very good idea.

[jetxl]

I like to just brows the todays favorite tutorials at deviant.com.
http://browse.deviantart.com/resources/tutorials/?order=9&startts=&endts=
They are very visual and I just pick up things without looking for them specificly.

[K.O.T.O.R]

Thats just stupid, if you haven't got two monitors you shouldn't even have the program. i mean i'm like a pro at it because not only am i an extreemly tallented artist but i'm excellent when it come to anything computers hense my first time passing of the ags test! anyways i'd like to say i think your doing a really great job in the way of effort and stuff but if you haven't read C basic, i mean the whole way through you should go back to using Lynex

[Ishmael]

Thats just stupid, if you haven't got two monitors you shouldn't even have the program. i mean i'm like a pro at it because not only am i an extreemly tallented artist but i'm excellent when it come to anything computers hense my first time passing of the ags test! anyways i'd like to say i think your doing a really great job in the way of effort and stuff but if you haven't read C basic, i mean the whole way through you should go back to using Lynex

Right, who are YOU then? ¬_¬

[hedgefield]

That's how NOT to make a first post...


Photoshop tips are a good idea, I might be able to throw in a few aswell. I like learning new stuff for it, there's just so many possibilities.

[IM NOT TEH SPAM]

Thats just stupid, if you haven't got two monitors you shouldn't even have the program. i mean i'm like a pro at it because not only am i an extreemly tallented artist but i'm excellent when it come to anything computers hense my first time passing of the ags test! anyways i'd like to say i think your doing a really great job in the way of effort and stuff but if you haven't read C basic, i mean the whole way through you should go back to using Lynex

You probably shouldn't post such a condescending and self complimentary thing as your first post.  "I'm an extremely talented artist but excellent when it comes to anything computers" is an extremely stupid thing to say--You have to at least try to be a bit humble about the work you do.   Like Ismael said, who are you?

And thank you, danclarke, I just got photoshop 12:00 AM today... so this is going to come in handy 

[Ishmael]

Ow, on topic: Works atleast in Photoshop Elements: hold alt while using the pencil, painbrush, paintbucket or similiar tools to temporarely switch to the eye-dropper. PSE tells it in the statusbar too, IIRC, but I never read the statusbar

[Squinky]

Works in Photoshop 7 also. These cool little shortcuts is why I use photoshop, it really can speed up your work.

[Darth Mandarb]

I hardly use the menues/toolbars in Photoshop ... I'm ALL hotkeys.

My girlfriend uses Photoshop at work sometimes, but when she watches me use it she doesn't understand it because I just tap keys so quickly.  I guess that comes from a decade of using the program (good lord now I feel old!!)

The trick is knowing what keys are for which tools.

It would be wrong to list them though ... because, and this is the one major complaint I have with Adobe, they changed the key designations from version to version (and the menu layouts).

So some of the hotkeys changed.  Which is EXTREMELY annoying.  Especially considering that for pixel art the pencil tool was N and now that's some dumb Note thing ... B is now the pencil tool.  Nothing more frustrating than thinking I'm switching back to draw and I get a big sticky note instead.

[MrColossal]

agreed, shift b comes natural to me now but whenever I use Imageready the pencil tool is still N! Explain that!

Plus I hate how photoshop and imageready don't do some things exactly the same, brush sizes and how they're represented on screen is handled differently in each program! Make-a-no-sense-a!

[Darth Mandarb]

agreed, shift b comes natural to me now but whenever I use Imageready the pencil tool is still N! Explain that!

Plus I hate how photoshop and imageready don't do some things exactly the same, brush sizes and how they're represented on screen is handled differently in each program! Make-a-no-sense-a!

It took me FOREVER to get used to using B for the pencil tool.  Now that I'm finally used to it, watch 'em change it back!

I avoid ImageReady like the plague (unless I need to animate a GIF) for exactly the reasons you stated.  I don't see why they don't just combine ImageReady's functionality into Photoshop in the first place!

[monkey0506]

agreed, shift b comes natural to me now but whenever I use Imageready the pencil tool is still N! Explain that!

Plus I hate how photoshop and imageready don't do some things exactly the same, brush sizes and how they're represented on screen is handled differently in each program! Make-a-no-sense-a!

It took me FOREVER to get used to using B for the pencil tool.  Now that I'm finally used to it, watch 'em change it back!

I avoid ImageReady like the plague (unless I need to animate a GIF) for exactly the reasons you stated.  I don't see why they don't just combine ImageReady's functionality into Photoshop in the first place!

Other than the GIF animation...I don't see the purpose behind ImageReady's existance at all.

Oh, and K.O.T.O.R...I just wanted to add...it's rather silly of you to say that just because someone doesn't have two screens that they have no right to own Photoshop.  You don't need two screens to use Photoshop.  And why should someone not use the program simply because they don't have the cash for another monitor?  Doesn't quite add up to me.