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CS Too Slim?

Posted by Tommy Maloney in Tips at May 18th, 2006

Adobe seemed to remove a few things from their CS version. Check your Goodies folder on your install CD to see what might be there, just not installed.

Quick Color Select

Posted by Tommy Maloney in Tips at May 18th, 2006

Holding the Alt key while using any of the painting tools will temporarily change to the Eye Dropper tool.

Selection Altering

Posted by Tommy Maloney in Tips at May 18th, 2006

In any of the selection tools, holding the Shift key will change your tool so that it adds to the current selection. Holding the Alt key removes from the selection.

Quick Zoom Out

Posted by Tommy Maloney in Tips at May 18th, 2006

Holding Ctrl + Alt + spacebar brings up the zoom out tool.

Quick Zoom In

Posted by Tommy Maloney in Tips at May 18th, 2006

Holding Ctrl + spacebar brings up the zoom in tool.

Universal Text Change

Posted by Tommy Maloney in Tips at May 18th, 2006

Link your Text layers together in the Layers Palette. Hold Shift as you make changes to one of the Layers. (Font, color, size, etc…) The changes can be seen in all linked Layers.

Try The Alt/Option Key

Posted by Tommy Maloney in Tips at May 18th, 2006

Try pressing the Alt/Option key in any dialog box you have open. Watch the buttons, most of the time they will change. (OK changes to Reset, etc.)

Transform Bounding Box

Posted by Tommy Maloney in Tips at May 18th, 2006

If you’re trying to transform a layer that is larger than your canvas, you lose your bounding box edges. Press Ctrl/Command – 0 and Photoshop automatically zooms so you can see the bounding box edges.