In this tutorial, I'm going to show you 6 amazing shortcuts in Photoshop that you aren't using. This is going to be a two-part series of Photoshop shortcuts. Let the fun begins.
1. Clone Tool Shortcuts
You probably are already familiar with the clone stamp tool. It allows you to clone or copy pixels from one area to another. If you hold Alt 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 offset of the source by using a keyboard shortcut? If you hold Alt + Shift and tap on any of the arrow keys you will offset the sample source. To rotate the sample source you can hold Alt + Shift and tap on the lass than or greater than keys. Those are the same keys as the period and comma keys. 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. If the shortcut doesn't work for you then you can go into Window - Clone Source, and use the panel to offset, scale, rotate, and even reset the clone source.
2. Restore Liquify
The Liquefy filter is probably one of Photoshop's most powerful and used tools. You can find it under Filter - Liquefy. With Forward Warp Tool(W) 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 reconstructed slider under the Brush Reconstruct Options. It works much like the fade command. As I drag to the left the distortion decrease. Moving the slider to O gives you back your original image and sliding it to 100 gives you the full effect that you applied. That is, of course, a global adjustment. If you want to target the reconstruction to a specific area then use the forward warp tool holding Alt and paint over 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 hold Alt, while you hover over a pin then when you see a circle with a double-sided arrow click and drag to rotate the pin. Adjust the way that the distortion is applied, and you can keep rotating it until you get the results that you're looking for.
4. Cycle Through Brush List
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 up to the brushes panel to select the new brush. But did you know that you can press the less than or greater keys to cycle between brushes? The less key allows you to make backward on the brushes list, while the greater than key allows you to move forward on the list.
5. Activate Layer Mask
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 are working on 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. Notice that the focus, the white outline, moved to the layer mask, and now you can continue painting and that will affect the layer mask and not the layer. To go back into the layer, press Ctrl 2, 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 you Foreground color by pressing Alt + Backspace and you can fill with the Background color by pressing Crtl + Backspace. But did you know that there is a shortcut that allows to only fill opaque pixels so that you don't affect transparent ones? If you add the Shift key to that fill shortcuts you will only fill over the nontransparent pixels. For example, if you press Shift + Alt + Backspace it will fill with the foreground color, but only affect the opaque pixels and not the transparent ones. If you press Shift + Ctrl + Backspace will fill with the background color only on nontransparent pixels.
And that would be it, for this part, the second part will follow soon. Thanks for reading the article I hope you liked it, and we’ll read on in the next one.😀😀
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