Quickly select colors from an image To make any color the foreground color Press I to activate the Eyedropper tool, and then click on any color in your image. To make that color the background color, press the ALT key and click on any color in your image.
Quickly change brush tip size With a brush selected, simply press the right bracket key “]” to increase the size of your brush tip, or press the left bracket key “[“todecreasethesizeofyourbrushtip[“tocreatethesizeofyourbrushtip[“paradisminuireltamañodelapuntadelpincel[“todecreasethesizeofyourbrushtip
The Move Tool and Arrow Keys Getting in the habit of activating the Move Tool via the keyboard is a time saver; you can do this using the shortcut, “V”. Once you’ve activated the Move tool, you can use the arrow keys on your keyboard to nudge a layer or selection in 1-pixel increments. You can speed things up by pressing the Shift key along with the arrow key to move forward in 10 pixel increments.
Hide your palettes Press Tab once to hide all your palettes. Press Tab again to bring them back. Press Shift Tab to hide all your palettes except the toolbar.
Zooming in and out You can zoom in on your image by pressing CTRL and the plus sign ” ” (Mac: Command and the ” ” sign). Instead, you can zoom out by pressing CTRL and the minus “-” sign (Mac: Command and the “-” sign).
Navigating in enlarged images If you’ve lost your way when zooming in on a large image, you can quickly jump to specific views using the following shortcuts: To set the view to the upper left corner of your image, press the Home key. Press the End key to set the view to the bottom right corner of your image. To move the view down one full screen, press the Page Down key. Press CTRL Page Down (Mac: Command Page Down) to move the screen view one full screen to the right. Press CTRL Page Up (Mac: Page Up Command) to move the screen view one full screen to the left.
Selecting only pixels on a layer An easy way to select an object that is on a transparent layer is to Command-click (PC: Control key) and click the layer with the object in the Layers Palette. This ensures that only the opaque pixels (the pixels that are visible) will be selected with the marching ants, rather than the entire layer.
Tile Images for Better Visibility When you simultaneously open a group of files in Photoshop, they automatically cascade and it can be difficult to select individual windows within all the overlapping files. To eliminate this problem, choose Window > Arrange > Tile and all your open files will be rearranged so that they are all visible at once. When you’re ready to close windows, you don’t have to spend time closing them individually, instead use the Close All shortcut Control Option W (Mac: Command Alt W).
Get rid of the splash screen and get it back When you first open Photoshop CS, you’ll probably see a splash screen with links to tutorials, tips and tricks, and a set of color management help files. At some point, you may want to prevent this screen from appearing. You should see a checkbox at the bottom of the screen that you can click to hide the screen on startup. Later, if you change your mind and decide you want to bring it up again, you can temporarily get the screen back by clicking the Help menu and selecting Welcome Screen.
Navigate through all your open documents Sometimes you’ll want to find one of your open documents that’s hidden, but navigating using the Window menu won’t help because you can’t remember the file name. Instead, press Control-Tab repeatedly (MAC and PC) to cycle through all of your open documents.