(photo by: Anita Levesque)
Want to fill your selection or layer with your current background color? Simply press Ctrl + Delete or Ctrl + Backspace on a PC or Command + Delete on a Mac and your background color will completely fill your selection.
Wednesday, September 19th, 2012
Trevor’s Photoshop tip of the week – Filling in with Background Color
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Tuesday, September 18th, 2012
Trevor’s Quick Excel Tip – Navigate cells
Move around the cells in your workbook without touching your mouse using the Up and Down and Left and Right Arrow keys. To jump to the edge of the current block of data press Ctrl + the appropriate arrow key – so to move to the last row press Ctrl + Down Arrow.
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Wednesday, September 12th, 2012
Trevor’s Photoshop tip of the Week – Quick Color Switch
(photo by: Jenny Kennedy-Olsen)
Working with two colors in Photoshop? We can switch between them by simply hitting the X key on the keyboard.
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Wednesday, September 5th, 2012
Trevor’s Photoshop tip of the Week – Resetting Color Palettes
(photo by: Leroy Skalstad)
Want to quickly switch the colors you’re working with back to the default black and white? All you have to do is hit the D key on the keyboard and the color palette will be reset to the default black foreground and a white background.
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Wednesday, August 29th, 2012
Trevor’s Photoshop tip of the Week – Dropdown Menus in Palettes
(photo by: Vivek Chugh)
Almost every palette in Photoshop has a drop down menu in its upper right hand corner – click it to find options and tools for that palette.
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Wednesday, August 22nd, 2012
Trevor’s Photoshop tip of the Week – Make a Path from a Selection
(photo by: kslyesmith via www.sxc.hu)
Looking to make your own paths? Start with a selection that you want to turn into a path. From the foot of the Paths palette click on the Make Work Path from Selection.
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Wednesday, August 15th, 2012
Trevor’s Photoshop Tip of the Week – Save a Path with your JPEG
(photo by: Amy Burton)
Paths can be a very helpful tool when editing and can be saved along with your image in .jpeg files. To do this create a path in the desired location on your image. Go to File > Save As choose JPEG as the file type. Name your image and save it. When you open it next the path will be accessible in the Paths palette.
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Wednesday, August 8th, 2012
Trevor’s Photoshop Tip of the Week – Cycling Through Open Projects
(photo by: Asif Akbar)
Cycle through your open images by pressing the Ctr + Tab keys on the keyboard.
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Wednesday, August 1st, 2012
Trevor’s Photoshop Tip of the Week – Work Space Clean Up
(photo by: Piotr Bizior)
If your work space is feeling cluttered with palettes you can press the Tab key on your keyboard to hide them all or Shift + Tab to hide all but the tools palette. Want them back? Press Tab again and there they are.
(photo by: Piotr Bizior)
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Thursday, July 26th, 2012
Trevor’s Tip of the Week – Brush Size
(Photo by: Jorge Vicente)
Change the size of your brush, eraser, or any tool that is brush based quickly by press the ] key to increase the size and the [ key to decrease the size.
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