Photoshop Tips, Tricks & Shortcuts in easy steps: Over 1000 tips, tricks and shortcuts

by Robert Shufflebotham

Overview

If you've been using Adobe's Photoshop for a while, but you've only been using a few basic features to get by and want to know all those clever tricks of the trade, then Photoshop Tips, Tricks & Shortcuts in easy steps is for you!

 

Learn about all the exciting features to achieve expertly produced images, and shortcuts to save time.

 

Photoshop Tips, Tricks and Shortcuts in easy steps will enable anyone to create, edit and produce professional looking images – all in easy steps with little time and effort required for learning. It’s ideal for you if you want to:

Create professional-looking images, brochures or marketing material, without needing to pay a premium for designers.

Add stunning images to your school and college projects.

Sharpen and update and your Photoshop CC skills.

Produce impactive images but have limited time and/or budget for training courses.

Learn all the exciting features to achieve expertly produced images to impress, and master key Photoshop shortcuts to save time!

 

It’s ideal for:

anyone who needs to produce professional-looking images, brochures or marketing material, without needing to pay a premium for designers

students who want to add stunning images to their school and college projects

anyone wanting to produce stunning images and with limited time and/or budget for training courses

designers who may need to update their skills with Photoshop CC

Covers all versions of Adobe's Photoshop CC

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781840787399
Publisher:	In Easy Steps Limited
Publication date:	09/05/2017
Series:	In Easy Steps
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	7.20(w) x 8.70(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Robert Shufflebotham is a software training consultant with over 21 years' experience of delivering software training. He trains on a regular basis for some of the largest and most prestigious magazine, book and newspaper publishers in the world. He also has a MA in Electronic Media.

Table of Contents

1 Go Faster 7

Zooming in and out 8

Content-Aware crop 9

Perspective crop 10

Reset Preference Settings 12

Controlling brushes 14

Pixel Grid 16

Recent Files panel 17

Notes 18

New Guide - precision placement 19

New Guide Layout - precision grids 20

Artboard documents 22

Create and manage Artboards 24

Custom keyboard shortcuts 28

Auto-Select 31

2 Selections 33

Selections - adding and subtracting 34

Fill with Foreground/Background color 37

Save and load selections 38

Inverse selection 42

Feathering selections 43

Feathering using mask properties 44

Paths to selections 47

Replace Color command 48

Recolor with Brush and Blend mode 50

3 Layers and Masks 51

Isolate layers 52

Layer shortcuts 54

Filter layers 58

Select and mask - Levels adjustment layer 60

Mask and montage 64

Toucan tutorial - Layer Masks 68

Vector masks 70

4 Layer Blend Modes 73

Layer Blend modes 74

Whiten eyes 76

Whiten teeth 78

Enhance skies 80

Recolor eyes 84

Experiment (quickly) with Blend modes 88

5 Type 89

Type Size shortcuts 90

Scale type visually 91

Tracking and Kerning 92

Baseline Shift 93

Leading 94

Paragraph Styles 96

Character Styles 100

Get your Glyphs out 102

Wood and stone carving 104

Neon type 107

Type on circles logo 110

6 Transform, Reflect, Shadow and Light 113

Perspective transformations 114

Create a reflection 118

Reflect, transform, blend and mask 120

Transform Again and Copy 123

Beams of light 126

Casting shadows 128

The Create Layer command 130

Generating scripted patterns 134

7 Path Power 137

Paths and shape layers 138

Drawing smooth curves 140

Drawing straight line segments 143

Selecting paths and points 144

Mixed straight and curve segments 146

Smooth points to corner points 148

The Convert Point tool 150

Load All Shapes 154

8 Cloud Power 155

Creative Cloud (CC) Libraries 156

Working with graphics in Libraries 160

New Library from Document 162

Collaborating with Libraries 164

Sharing links to Libraries 166

Typekit 167

Managing Typekit fonts 169

Behance it 170

9 Actions and Output 171

Action stations 172

Polaroid effect 174

Adding commands to an action 177

Playing and controlling actions 178

Insert a Stop 180

Quick Export As 182

Export As 186

Index 189