Useful tips n tricks of adobe CS5

Photoshop CS5 is one huge program with so many commands, but it can take you forever to complete some tasks if you don't know the program shortcuts (Hot Keys). Here I'm going to show you a lot of the most used hotkey combinations to speed your work in Photoshop CS5.

All these commands are tested in Photoshop CS5. Some of them works in previous versions of the program too.

1. When no file is opened, double click the gray background area and the "Open" command will run.
2. When you press the TAB the toolbar and panels will hide. Shift + Tab will hide only the panels.
3. Pressing Ctrl+Tab will toggle between all opened image files.
4. Double clicking on the title of any panel will minimize or maximize it.
5. Pressing Ctrl+J will make a duplicate layer.
6. Ctrl+E will merge all selected layers.
7. Ctrl+Shift+N creeates new layer with a dialog box, Ctrl+Shift+Alt+N creates a new layer, with no questions asked.
8. Pressing X will swap the foreground and background colors.
9. Pressing D will resets the foreground and background colors to default.
10. Holding Spacebar will temporarily change you current tool to Hand Tool.
11. Holding Ctrl will change you current tool to Move Tool until you release it.
12. If you want to show or hide a path, you can do it by pressing Ctrl+shift+H.
13. Press Ctrl + D to deselect everything, and Ctrl+Shift+D to reselect what you deselected.
14. When file is opened, press F to switch between program layout modes.
15. This works only if file is opened. If you want to change the gray background color around the opened file, select Paint Bucket tool, hold shift and click.
16. In Photoshop CS5 when you want to draw a perfect straight line, click at the point where you want your line to start, then hold Shift and Click on the point where you want your line to end.
17. Alt + Mouse Scroll will change the zoom level.
18. Holding Alt will temporarily change you current tool to Eyedropper Tool, if you are working with a painting tool.
19. When you are using Magnetic Lasso Tool, pressing Delete button will remove the last anchor point (this one is very useful for me).
20. Pressing Caps Lock will switch your cursor to Plus sign for precision painting.
21. When double click the Hand Tool you will get the largest full image preview possible.
22. When you are using the Eyedropper Tool to capture foreground color, hold Alt and click to capture the color for background.
23. While using the Zoom Tool, press Ctrl + Spacebar to zoom in, Alt + Spacebar to zoom out.
24. Double clicking the Zoom Tool will set the zoom level to 100%.
25. Alt drag a step from a serial action can copy it to another action.
26. If you hold down Alt while using Burn or Dodge Tool, it switches the tool functions in between them.
27. Hold Shift and press "+" or "-" it will change the layer and painting modes:

N = Normal
I = Dissolve
M = Multiply
S = Screen
O = Overlay
F = Soft Light
H = Hard Light
D = Color Dodge
B = Color Burn
K = Darken
G = Lighten
E = Difference
X = Exclusion
U = Hue
T = Saturation
C = Color
Y = Luminosity
Q = Behind 1
L = Threshold 2
R = Clear 3
W = Shadow 4
V = Midtones 4
Z = Highlights 4

28. When you Ctrl + Alt + Click and drag the image, it will create a duplication of the current image or selection and make an overlay on top.
29. If you have to import an object from Illustrator to Photoshop, just Copy and Paste it. Photoshop CS5 will ask you to import it as a vector or bitmap.
30. When you are drawing a line with the Measure Tool, if you hold Alt and draw another line from the end of the first one, it will also measure the angle.
31. Ctrl + Backspace and Alt + Backspace will fill the whole image area with foreground or background color.
32. When you are done typing with the text tool, press Ctrl+Enter and the program will know you are done.

Computers Geek - Tips N Trick's

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Useful tips n tricks of adobe CS5

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