Hi, welcome back to The Photoshop Training Channel.com,
I'm Jesus Ramirez.
In this video I'm going to show you fifteen amazing shortcuts that you aren't using.
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You probably are already with the clone Stamp Tool.
It allows you to clone or copy pixels from one area to another.
If you hold Alt on Windows, Option on the Mac, and click on your image you will set
the sample source, the area that you will copy pixels from.
The preview will show you the size of the brush, and the content that you will paint.
But did you know that you can change the size, rotation, and the offset of the source by
using a keyboard shortcut?
If you hold alt Shift, Option Shift on the Mac, and tap on any of the arrow keys you
will offset the sample source.
Notice that preview updating as I tap the arrow keys.
To rotate the sample source you can hold alt Shift, Option Shift on the Mac, and tap on
the less than or greater than keys.
Those are the same keys as the period and comma keys.
And if you hold alt Shift, and tap on the bracket keys you will scale the sample source
allowing you to clone something at a different size than what you sampled.
Keep in mind that these clone tool shortcuts only work with North American keyboards.
If a shortcut doesn't work for you then you can go into window, clone source, and use
this panel to offset, scale, rotate, and even reset the clone source.
When retouching sometimes you may want to target either the highlights or the shadows of an image.
To quickly select the bright pixels on the photo you can press Ctrl alt 2 on windows,
that's Command Option 2 on the Mac.
If you want to target the shadows of the image you can then invert the selection by pressing
Ctrl Shift i, Command Shift I on the Mac.
If you create a color balance adjustment layer you will see that Photoshop automatically
applies a layer mask in the shape of that selection then you can make an extreme adjustment,
and you will see how the adjustment only effects the shadows.
To invert a layer mask and target the highlights again you can click on the layer mask icon,
and in the properties panel you can click on the invert button, or you could also press
Ctrl i to invert the contents of the layer mask.
Notice that the adjustment now only effects the highlights of the image.
One useful shortcut for painting or compositing in Photoshop is the lock transparent pixel shortcut.
If you press the forward slash key you will lock the transparent pixels, and you will
only be able to paint on pixels that are not transparent.
Notice that I'm only painting on the contents of this layer leaving the transparent pixels intact.
To unlock the transparent pixels press the forward slash key again.
This is the same example that I used on my making custom Photoshop brushes video.
If you want to learn more about how to make custom brushes from your photos then checkout
this video, I'll place a link right below in the description.
The liquefy filter is probably one of Photoshop's most powerful and used tools.
You can find it under filter, liquefy.
With the forward warp tool you can distort pixels by pushing them as you paint.
You probably already know that you can reduce the distortion that you create by using the
reconstruct slider under the brush reconstruct Options.
It works much like the fade Command.
As I drag to the left the distortion decreases.
Moving the slider to 0 gives you back your original image and sliding it to 100 gives
you the full effect that you applied.
This is of course a global adjustment.
If you want to target the reconstruction to a specific area then use the forward warp
tool while holding alt, Option on the Mac, and paint on the specific areas that you would
like to reconstruct.
Another powerful distortion tool in Photoshop is the puppet warp tool found in the edit menu.
It allows you to place pins on your image that you can then click and drag to distort it.
If you don't get the results that you're expecting when you drag the pins then hold alt, Option
on the Mac, while you hover over a pin then when you see a circle with a double sided
arrow click and drag to rotate the pin and adjust the way that the distortion is applied.
And then you can keep rotating it until you get the results that you're looking for.
If you want to watch a full explanation about how this tool works then check out my complete
guide on the puppet warp tool, I'll place a link right below in the description.
When painting, compositing, or retouching you may need to use more than one brush often
switching back and forth from two or more brushes.
This can become a tedious process if you have to keep going back up to the brushes panel
to select the new brush.
But did you know that you can press the less than or greater than keys to cycle between brushes?
The less than key allows you to move backwards on the brushes list while the greater than
key allows you to move forward on the list.
Another way in which you can save time in Photoshop is by reducing the time that you
spend clicking on the layer thumbnail, or the layer mask thumbnail.
When you're working a layer, and you would like to switch over to the layer mask you
don't have to click it.
All you need to do is press Ctrl backslash, that's Command backslash on the Mac.
Notice that the focus, the white outline, moved to the layer mask, and now you can continue
painting and that will of course affect the layer mask and not the layer.
To go back into the layer press Ctrl 2, that's Command 2 on the Mac, and the focus will jump
back to layer thumbnail, and you can keep working with the actual pixels of the layer.
You probably already know that you can fill with your foreground color by pressing alt
Backspace, that's Option delete on the Mac, and that you can fill with the background
color by pressing Ctrl Backspace, Command delete on the Mac.
But did you know that there is a shortcut that allows to only fill opaque pixels, so
that you don't effect transparent ones?
If you add the Shift key to those fill shortcuts you will only fill over the nontransparent pixels.
For example if I press Shift alt Backspace on Windows, and Shift Option delete on the
Mac, I will fill with the foreground color, but only effect the opaque pixels and not
the transparent ones.
Shift Ctrl Backspace, or Shift Command delete will fill with the background color only on
nontransparent pixels.
When you have a selection active sometimes you may run a Command that disables it, or
you simply disable it to do something else.
If you want to bring back a selection remember that you can press Ctrl Shift D, that's Command
Shift D on the Mac, to restore the last active selection.
One fast and easy way to change the size and hardness off your brush is to hold Ctrl alt
on Windows, Command Option on the Mac, then right-click and drag left and right to adjust
the size of the brush.
And drag up and down to adjust the hardness of the brush.
Sometimes when working with Photoshop you may get carried away and apply a bunch of
adjustments, filters, or distortions that it's best to simply start from scratch.
When this happens you can press the F12 key to revert the file back to the last save point.
If you haven't saved the document since you opened it Photoshop will restore it back to
the opening state.
Another way of getting to the revert function is by going into the file menu and selecting revert.
When working with text sometimes you may need to adjust the spacing between two letters.
One fast and easy way of doing so is to place the cursor between the two letters that you
would like to adjust then hold alt, Option on the Mac, and tap on the left arrow key
to decrease the space between the two character, or tap on the right arrow key to increase
the space.
This next example is not really a keyboard shortcut Command, but it is a great time saver
that I think qualifies as a shortcut.
As you know with the eyedropper tool you can click on your image to select a color.
But did you know that you could select a color from outside of Photoshop?
If you drag the application window to the side to reveal any other application, you
can click and hold inside of Photoshop to select the color then if you drag out of the
Photoshop window without releasing the mouse button you will see that Photoshop will start
selecting colors from outside the application.
Once you find the color that you like, release the mouse button, and that color will be set
to the foreground color inside of Photoshop.
This keyboard shortcut is one that everyone should know.
If you have been using Photoshop for a while then you probably have run into this problem before.
With a painting tool selected such as a brush tool you can see the preview of the brush.
If you tap on the caps lock key you will switch over to the crosshair cursor.
This could be very useful in some cases, but if you inadvertently activate it it can be
extremely frustrating especially if you don't know how to disable it.
When I was just starting out in Photoshop, I actually uninstalled the app to try to fix this issue.
Little did I know that all I needed to do to disable it was just to hit that caps lock key.
Let me know in the comments if this has ever happened to you.
It will make me feel a whole lot better to know that I wasn't the only one who ran into
that problem.
This next shortcut will be a bonus.
This is a fun Easter Egg that you can use to play a funny prank on a friend or coworker.
If you click on the three dot icon in the toolbar, and go into the toolbar editor you
can hold Shift, and click on done.
Doing so will replace the three dots with a banana.
The icon doesn't do anything.
It's just a funny little icon that surely will freak out your friends.
To remove it go back into the edit toolbar menu, and hold alt on Windows,
Option on the Mac, and click on done.
Let me know in the comments below if you're planning on playing a prank on someone with
this Easter Egg.
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