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My name is Jesus Ramirez and you can find me on Instagram @JRfromPTC.
In this tutorial, I'm going to show you 5 Photoshop tricks that you don't know, probably.
This is the third video in this series.
You can check out the other videos by clicking on the links in the description down below.
These are just 5 tricks that I figured most Photoshop users wouldn't know and that they
will find useful.
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Photoshop CC2015.5 introduced the new Select and Mask Workspace and removed the old Refine Edge dialogue box.
If you prefer to use the old dialogue box when working with selections or masks, then
use this little known shortcut in Photoshop CC2017 and newer.
With the selection or mask active, press and hold Shift, then go into the Select menu and
click on Select and Mask.
This will open the Refine Edge window instead of the selected mask workspace.
If you want a text record of every single step that you've done to an image, then turn
on Photoshop's History log.
Press Ctrl K, that's Command K on the Mac, to bring up the Preferences Panel, then click
on the History Log tab and click on the History Log check box.
Select Text File and choose where you would like to save your text file and give it a
name.
Under Edit Log Items, choose Detailed and press OK.
Now I can make some adjustments to this image and Photoshop will keep track of those adjustments.
Let me show you what I mean.
I'm just going to apply a Curves Adjustment Layer and I'm also going to apply a filter,
and I'm going to double click on the side of the layer to apply a layer style.
Obviously, we're not going for aesthetics, we're just trying to apply certain effects
so that we could see what that History Log file looks like.
And I'm just going to apply an inner shadow and just bump that up and press OK.
Then I'm going to close the image, I'm going to save it and I'm just going to call it 'Tip.'
Now I can go to that folder where I saved my History Log and I can open up that text
file.
Here's the PSD that I saved and this is the text file.
I can double click on that text file and you can see that Photoshop kept a record of all
the adjustments that we made.
It shows that we created an adjustment layer, a Curves Adjustment layer, and it gives you
all the information about that adjustment.
It also shows the filters that applied--the Gaussian Blur, the Radius that we used, the
Layer Style and what we did with that layer style.
It also shows that we saved the file and what we called it and where we saved it.
So, this is a great way of keeping track of all the steps that you applied to an image
in Photoshop.
Sometimes you may be working on large files that usually take a long time to open.
You may simply want to open the file to show it to somebody, send it on an email or share
it on social media.
You can open up a flattened version of a layer psd by going into File, Open.
Notice that my PSD here is 4.7 gigabytes.
That is a really large file that can take up to 20 to 30 seconds to open.
I can click on it once to select it, then I can hold Shift Alt, that's Shift Option
on the Mac, and click on Open.
Photoshop will ask to 'Read the composite data instead?'
Pressing OK will immediately open the file and it will be a flattened version of the
contents of the PSD.
One very important thing to note is that you always want to do a File, Save As, as you're
working with this file.
If you simply hit Save, you will override the original file and you will lose all your
layers.
And, by the way, this file is a piece that I created for Adobe.
I was one of 5 artists who worked on the 'Make a Masterpiece Project' for Adobe Stock, where
we used Adobe Stock images to recreate paintings that have been lost through history.
You might have seen my interview at Adobe Stock's Facebook page while I was at Adobe
Max.
If you're interested, I'll leave a link to it down below.
When sending a copy of a project to a client, you may want to protect the file so that it
requires a password to print or edit.
This will prevent your client from using your work before you get paid.
To protect your files, save it as a PDF.
Go to File, Save As, and choose PDF from the dropdown.
In the Save PDF dialog box, click on Security and under Permissions, check 'Use a password
to restrict printing, editing and other tasks.'
Set a permission password.
You can then decide to change any of these settings and click on Save PDF, then confirm
your password and press OK.
Open up the PDF using Adobe Acrobat and if I try to copy the image by right clicking
on it, I won't be able to.
If I'd select Edit Image, Acrobat will ask me for the password, and notice that the printer
icon is disabled.
Also, it's not available under Print.
The same is true for Cut and Copy.
We have this open document here and with the Eyedropper Tool, you can select it by clicking
on it on the Tools Bar or pressing I on your keyboard, and you probably know how this tool
works.
You can click anywhere on your canvas and it selects a color and that becomes your foreground
color, in this case, white--the canvas is white.
But we can actually select the color from outside of Photoshop with this tool.
I also have the Chrome browser open.
I'm going to bring that up and this is my website Photoshoptrainingchannel.com or the
short URL PTCVids.com and I'm just going to move it to the side so that we could see Photoshop.
And I did that by pressing the Windows button and the right arrow key on the keyboard and,
obviously, that's a Windows shortcut.
And I'm going to go into Photoshop, and this time, use the Windows key and the left arrow
key, so now we have them side by side.
So, now, with the Eyedropper Tool active, I can click inside of Photoshop and drag,
and you'll see how I'm going to start selecting colors outside of Photoshop.
You can see the foreground color here and, actually, the canvas moved, but that's okay.
I can bring it back by simply double clicking on the Hand Tool and, once again, selecting
the Eyedropper Tool and take a look at the foreground color.
I'm going to click and drag and you can see how I'm selecting the colors from outside
of Photoshop so I can select the Facebook blue or the Twitter blue or maybe the green
down here and it selects it in the foreground color.
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