hey guys welcome or welcome back thanks so much for joining me today is part two of our
keyboard shortcut master class to make it much more efficient save time and therefore money in
photoshop sorry if you haven't already you definitely want to have watched the first
round of keyboard shortcuts which covered i think like 18 different keyboard shortcuts
that i use a pretty much every single day and it essentially will speed up your editing workflow
if you speed up your editing workflow you are therefore saving time and if you save time
you tend to save money it pays to be more efficient as a photographer so go ahead and
learn those ones come back and learn these ones you don't really have to learn them in
any particular order but today's video is going to have another i don't know over 15 probably
keyboard shortcuts that i find uh essential to to basically everyday life in photoshop if
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just like last time we've got this camera which is filming from the sky and we also have this camera
which is filming me what we've got open on the screen at the moment is just an image that i've
already edited already worked on already printed is already done but i want to run through today's
keyboard shortcuts on this to give you guys just like a flavor of something a little bit different
okay so though so today's keyboard structures are kind of uh like a different kind of type than the
previous ones but i want to cover them kind of in little groups because i think that they work
quite well together so let's start by going ahead and creating a new layer to create a new layer you
can just do command shift n command shift n will bring up your new layer dialog box and if you just
want a boring blank layer and you can go ahead and click ok or enter so that's like a nice quick way
of creating a new layer now with this blank layer let's say i'm wanting to go ahead and introduce
some color that is already in the image what i can do is actually go ahead and press i as in
the letter i for igloo i by pressing i what we can go ahead and do is it uses this little eyedropper
which is popped up on the screen now with that in play we can then go ahead and select a color
from the scene by just clicking and that little click that we just did there has set that color
as our top color here so let's go ahead and utilize that on this file on this blank layer that
we've just created if all of this is completely foreign to you two places to go number one we've
got photoshop for beginners course which will make following any of my online videos super easy
i will go ahead and link that above the second place to go if you are finding this a little bit
overwhelming is there is a video on the channel which covers um kind of photoshop foundations
like the basics of it the main three things and that will kind of introduce you to the concept
but the course is obviously a lot more in-depth so let's go back to doing this so we've got our layer
we've got our color we did our keyboard shortcut for brush last time which was to press the b
i just realized like my nails are pretty gross got our keyboard shortcuts for the brushes which we've
done before so we can go ahead and change the size of that i'm going to go super big and then we also
have our keyboard shortcuts for opacity and flow which are our numbers if you remember so we can
change our values along there let's go ahead and go 100. this is a blank layer and what i'm
going to do is i'm just going to go ahead i mean i don't really know why i'm doing this but i'm just
going to go ahead and introduce the color that we selected so the color we picked off of here
and it just introduced that down here now with that down there
you know what screw it let's go all the way around the edge and do vignette
so we put that all the way around the edge of this layer remembering our keyboard shortcuts
from the last time we can go ahead and just view this particular layer so i can go and fill in any
areas that i'm not happy with okay so let's go ahead and view that again now this looks
ridiculous absolutely ridiculous but that's okay so what we're going to do is go ahead and create
a mask on that layer and then when we on our mask we can go through our other keyboard shortcuts so
what i want to go ahead and do essentially is take off this um effect from the floor okay so
i'm going to need my brush again now let's say for example our palette had different colors on it we
can go ahead and get back to our default colors by pressing d d for default pressing d for default
switches our palette back to black and white and then if you've watched any of my tutorials you'll
know that x will flip those around so xxxx so we can go ahead and grab our mask put that back
to default switch the palette if we want to and knowing our mask knowledge from photoshop basics
we can go ahead and utilize those are the keyboard shortcuts now what happens if i go like that like
oops i went too high remember okay so i went too high there if i wanted to clean that up that's
100% doable but doing it like this i can't kind of like can't see so we utilize another keyboard as a
shortcut where we use our kind of backward slash they're not forward slash it's like back with
backward slash the backward slash there what that does is it will bring up a red overlay and
when we're using that we can go ahead and get a neater finish so switching our palette by using x
you can go from that but you see how i'm still not only not doing a very good job of keeping
it straight but mainly because i'm not very good at doing that but it's another keyboard shortcut
for that so what you can do is go ahead if you want to get an exactly horizontal line
is hold down shift on the keyboard before you click and press and go across and what that gives
us is a perfectly straight line so it doesn't matter where i go it only goes on that line
make sense so i'm holding shift and we're getting that a nice straight line so then
if i let go go ahead and press my backwards slash forward slash backwards like backwards
the other one okay when i've done that i can then go ahead and just basically see that this is only
acting above that line that i did down there okay so i'm going to go ahead and change the blend mode
of this over to something like uh soft light i think and then we'll bring the opacity right down
on that so that that is only operating up there on the background okay so we've got that all set and
done let's go ahead and look at some other ones so let's say for example we were zooming in on lucky
here and we needed to work on something so we're we're looking at him this is lucky hi lucky um and
we need to get back to our kind of like wider view you just press command and o together so command
o we'll set that back to fit the screen and if we wanted to view this at 100% resolution it's command
one so command one will bring that in to 100% of that resolution there what i'm wanting to do now
is go ahead and use a different keyboard shortcut to just organize my layer stack a little bit more
as you can see you can you can tell essentially that i'm utilizing
different things like groups and stuff and what i want to do is kind of group all of these layers
together so i don't want to merge them i just want to group them so to do that i just need to select
one from one end hold down shift select one from the other end you could go anywhere in between
i'm just going for all of them and then i'm going to use a keyboard shortcut to group which
is command g command g will go ahead and group those objects together in a group to undo that
it's command shift g you should be able to see a pattern kind of forming in terms of these keyboard
shortcuts and that if one thing does one thing if you add shift to it it tends to kind of undo it
um but yeah so that's just like a useful little thing to have now let's say for example that i
want to almost flatten this off but i want to retain my layers so to do that i want to
be going ahead and doing a command shift option e so command shift option e will flatten that group
give us a new one and then this essentially we can work from as its own layer which can be really
really useful let's undo that and then let's say for example that you just want to merge that down
command e will just merge those all down any selected layers will be merged down into one layer
let's say for example let's ungroup that using our keyboard shortcuts one of these groups is
turned off so that is invisible everything else is visible let's say for example we wanted to merge
all visible layers that's command shift e command shift e will flatten all visible layers but leave
anything that is invisible super useful to just quickly get through things and yeah speed up your
life so let's go ahead and just kind of do one of those here so let's do command option e and just
to get that right nice and flat there and then i'm going to go ahead and adjust a group of those
bottom ones here i want to duplicate this layer duplication as you guys hopefully will already
know from watching our videos is command j command j will duplicate your layer exactly as it is
remember that if you're adding a clipping mask to something for example
let's do a curves adjustment layer we're going to go ahead and lift that up here
and let's say we just want this to operate on this layer all we need to do is go ahead and hold down
option on the keyboard and click between those two layers that gives you a clipping mask that only
means that basically this is only operating on the layer that's immediately below it not anything
else so what that means is i can add a mask to this let's do a select subject just super quick
and let's go ahead and just add that mask here and so now what this curves layer is doing this curves
layer is brightening and it is brightening just what is white in this image here so on that layer
the white part is literally just the horse okay so what it's doing is it's only saying hey look only
affect what is on that layer not what's underneath it if that did not have the clipping mask on it it
would lighten up everything right do you see the difference there so that is how we can go ahead
and do that using our keyboard shortcuts okay so if we're happy with how things are looking am i
happy with how everything's turning out let's go ahead and just kind of flatten off the whole image
let's do a command e merge it all down into one layer let's do a final set of keyboard shortcuts
that i want to share with you guys which are to do with cropping so you're cropping keyboard
shortcuts actually can be really useful so let's say that the client wanted this image
uh printed up as a 5x7 for example so if we go ahead and grab our crop tool you could press c
to get there quickly and we can go up here into ratio and change that to five seven now when you
do this it will flip portrait right so do you see that that is now portrait which is like
we don't really want that to be portrait if we want to switch that instead of going up here and
pressing this to rotate it we just press x on the keyboard and just like flipping our palette
it flips our crop so we'll do that now but then we're still here and we're still having to go
pull it in out pull it out pull it out to get it there i don't really want to be doing that
quickest way of doing this is to hold down option as you pull one of the sides and it will pull from
all sides you see how all sides are coming out another massive time saver so we can go ahead
and find our crop here cycle through your overlays by pressing o so we can go back to rule of thirds
make sure that we've got a pleasing crop for the composition here and then we can press enter to
lock that in when you're done with that it's time to export easiest way i find to export in
the newest version of adobe photoshop 2021 which has got some saving annoying things it's actually
to do a command option shift w which seems really confusing but honestly it's not that bad
so we want to do a shift command option and a w now my finger can't reach so i use that one that
takes us to export as and then we can go ahead and save that out as a file for whatever use you have
in mind really there just remember when you're doing this to always embed the color profile
because it is important when you are exporting and uploading two various different things including
your print house if this video has been helpful for you please do and let me know down in the
bottom below the boxy thing the box down below and yeah um i'll see you all again really really soon