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Learn Photoshop Basics: A complete guide to Photoshop Classics

2018-04-26 03:12:44

Photoshop deals primarily with digital images made up of pixels. With its numerous editing and drawing tools, you can effectively edit pictures

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1. Quickly open the file Double-click the blank space in the background of Photoshop (the default is the gray display area) to open the browsing window of the selected file.

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2. Change the canvas color at will select the Paint Bucket tool and hold down Shift and click the edge of the canvas to set the background color of the canvas to the currently selected foreground color. If you want to revert to the default color, set the foreground color to 25% gray (R192, G192, B192) while holding Shift again, click the edge of the canvas.

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3. Select Tool shortcuts You can press shortcut keys to quickly select a tool in the toolbox. The letter shortcuts for each tool are as follows: Select Box -M Move -V Lasso -L Magic Wand -W spray gun -J Paintbrush -B pencil -N Rubber stamp -S History paintbrush -Y eraser -E Blur -R Dodge -O Pen -P Text -T Measure -U Gradient -G Paint bucket -K suction -I gripper -H Zoom -Z Default foreground and background color -D Switching foreground and background colors -X Editing mode switching -Q Display mode switching -F In addition, if we hold down the Alt key and then click the displayed tool icon, or hold down the Shift key and repeatedly press the letter shortcut key, we can cycle through hidden tools.

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5. Display/Hide Control boards Press Tab to switch between displaying and hiding all control boards (including the toolbox). If Shift+Tab is pressed, the toolbox is not affected and only other control boards are displayed or hidden.

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7. The shortcut key of the zoom tool is "Z", in addition, "Ctrl+ space bar" is the zoom tool, "Alt+ space bar" is the zoom tool, but you can zoom with the mouse click; Similarly press Ctrl+ "+" key and "-" key to enlarge and reduce the image respectively; Ctrl+Alt+ "+" and Ctrl+Alt+ "-" can automatically adjust the window to zoom the full screen. With this tool, you can view the image in full screen no matter how many parts are displayed! If you want to automatically adjust the window to the size of the image when using the Zoom tool, you can click the "Full Canvas Display" option in the properties bar of the Zoom tool.

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When using a non-hand Tool(Hand Tool), hold down the space bar to convert to a hand tool, you can move the visible area of the image in the window. Double-clicking the mouse on the hand-shaped tool makes the image appear at the most appropriate window size, and double-clicking the mouse on the Zoom tool makes the image appear at a 1:1 ratio.

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9. When using the Erase Tool, hold down the Alt key to switch the eraser function back to the specified step record state.

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