(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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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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Thursday, July 19th, 2012
Trevor’s Tip of the Week – Quick Color Match
photo by: lcrumling via www.sxc.hu)
Want to quickly match a color without disrupting your work flow? Press the I key to activate the Eyedropper tool, then click on the color your trying to replicate to sample it.
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