Ps production skills 184 (11-26)

11. To move the glyph selection range typed using the Type Mask Tool, switch to fast mask mode (switch with shortcut key Q) first, and then move, and then switch back to standard mode when finished. You can.

12. After holding down the Alt key, use the Rubber Stamp Tool to click in any open image window to set the sampling position in the window, but it will not change the action window.

13. When using the Move Tool, you can press the arrow keys on the keyboard to move the image on the layer directly by 1 pixel. If you hold down the Shift key and then press the arrow key, you can use 10 pixels each time. Distance moving image. Pressing the Alt key drags the selection to move a copy of the selection.

14. When using magnetic lasso tool or magnetic pen tool, press “[” or “]” key to increase or decrease the sampling width in real time (in option palette)
15. Measurement tools are very convenient for measuring distances (especially on diagonal lines) and you can use it to measure angles (like a protractor). Under the premise that the information panel is visible, select the measurement tool and click and drag a straight line, hold down the Alt key and drag the second straight line from the node of the first line so that the angle between the two lines and the line The length is displayed on the information panel. You can move the measurement line by dragging with the measurement tool (you can also move only one node of the measurement line alone) and drag the measurement line out of the canvas to delete it.

16. Using a painting tool such as a brush, pen, or the like, Shift-click the mouse to connect the two click points in a straight line.

17. Hold down the Alt key and use the eyedropper tool to select the color to define the current background color. The color change of the current picture is monitored by combining the color sampler tool (Shift+I) and the information panel. The color value before and after the change is displayed next to the sampling point number on the information panel. The color mode of the sampling point can be defined through the pop-up menu on the information panel. To add a new sample point, simply click on the color sampler tool anywhere on the canvas. Hold down the Alt key to remove the sample point. However, up to four color sampling points can be placed on a single graph. When there are dialogs in Photoshop (for example: color scale commands, curve commands, etc.) popping up, to add a new sampling point you must hold down the Shift key and then click, Alt + Shift click to subtract a sample point.

18. The cutting tool must be used by everyone, and you must have encountered it in this case; when you adjust the cropping grip and the cropping box is close to the border of the image, the cropping box will be automatically attached to the edge of the image. On top of that, you can't accurately cut the image. However, as long as the "Ctrl" key is accepted when the trimming border is adjusted, the trimming box will obey the inscription and let you cut it accurately.

Copy skills

19. Hold down Ctrl+Alt and drag the mouse to copy the contents of the current layer or selection.

20. If you recently copied a picture to the clipboard, Photoshop will use the size of the picture in the clipboard as the default size of the new image when creating a new file (Ctrl+N). To skip this feature and use the last setting, hold down the Alt key (Ctrl+Alt+N) when you open it.

21. If you create a new work, you need a file with the same size, resolution, and format as an open picture. Select "File" → "New" and click the Windows option in the Photoshop menu bar. Click on the opened picture name in the bottom bar of the popup menu. Yes, it is that simple!

22. Hold down the Alt key (Ctrl+Alt+T) while using Free Transform Tool (Ctrl+T) to copy the original layer (in the current selection) and then transform it on the copy layer; Ctrl+Shift+T To perform the last conversion again, press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+T to perform the transformation after copying the original.

23. Use the "Copy new layer (Ctrl+J)" or "Cut new layer (Ctrl+J)" commands to copy to paste and cut to paste in one step; by copying (cutting ) New layer commands will still be placed in their original place when they are pasted, but by copying (cutting) and pasting, they will be pasted to the center of the picture (or constituency).

24. To copy the image directly and do not want the named dialog box, first hold down the Alt key and then execute the "Image" → "Copy" command.

25. Photoshop's clipboard works well, but you prefer to use the Windows system clipboard directly to process images captured from the screen. OK, press Ctrl+K and in the pop-up panel, click "Output to Clipboard".

26. Implement regular replication in Photoshop

When doing layout, we often put some elements regularly to seek a form of beauty, which can be easily obtained in Photoshop through the combination of four shortcut keys.

(1) Circle the object you want to copy;

(2) Press Ctrl + J to generate a floating Layer;

(3) Confirm by rotating and moving to the proper position;

(4) Now you can press Ctrl+Alt+Shift and press “T” continuously to copy the continuous objects regularly. (Press Ctrl+Shift only to move regularly)