Inverting the Quick Mask
Option (Mac)/ Alt (Win) -click on the Quick Mask icon to invert the selection when entering Quick Mask mode.
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Option (Mac)/ Alt (Win) -click on the Quick Mask icon to invert the selection when entering Quick Mask mode.
Double click on the quick mask icon to access the Quick Mask Options dialog box to change color, transparency and opacity options.
With the Hand tool selected, checking Scroll All Windows (in the Option bar) will scroll (or pan) all open documents at once. Shift -drag (or pan) with the Hand tool to temporarily turn on the Scroll All Windows.
Double clicking the Hand tool in the Tool Panel is the same as selecting View > Fit on Screen (Photoshop will display the entire image as large as possible on screen. Note: Command (Mac) / Control (Win) + 0 (zero) also displays the image as large as possible.
Holding down the spacebar (while most other tools are selected) will temporarily give you the Hand tool allowing quick panning of images that are zoomed in.
Shift-double clicking on a RAW image in the Bridge will bypass the Camera Raw dialog, applying either settings that have been saved with the file, or if there are no setting applied, opening the file with the camera defaults.
You can go directly to the Photoshop Marketplace where you can look at all of the additional Filters and Plug-Ins that are available for Photoshop by choosing Filter > Browse Filters online.
When launching Bridge, Command-Option (Mac)/Control-Alt (Win) + Shift to choose "Reset Preferences", Purge Entire Thumbnail Cache", and/or Reset Standard Workspaces".
When launching Photoshop, Option-Command (Mac) / Alt-Control (Win) prompts you to choose an additional scratch disk folder. Note: there is a very short window between clicking the PS icon to launch it and needing to hold down the keyboard shortcut, so get your fingers ready ahead of time!
When launching Photoshop, Option-Command (Mac) / Alt-Control (Win) + Shift prompts you to delete the Adobe Photoshop settings file (which stores your preferences). Note: there is a very short window between clicking the PS icon to launch it and needing to hold down the keyboard shortcut, so get your fingers ready ahead of time!
Option (Mac) / Alt (Win) while in the Save for Web dialog box will change the Cancel button to Reset and the Done button to Remember (click Remember to save the current setting as your default).
When on a layer, tap the "/" key to toggle the Lock (Transparency, Pixels, Position, or All) option on and off.
Shift-click on the link icon to temporarily disable linking of a given layer.
Although the basic rules from previous versions of Photoshop still apply, now that multiple layers can be selected at one time in Photoshop, the rules for linking layers have become a bit more complex. They are as follows:
• Selecting a layer that is linked will show the link icon on all the other layers to which it is linked.
• To unlink a single layer from a link set, simply select the layer and click the link icon. If there were other linked layers, they remain linked.
• If none of the layers selected contain linked and you click the link icon, all layers become linked - creating a new link set.
• If the layers selected contain only linked layers, regardless of whether they're all in the same link sets, clicking the link icon unlinks everything selected.
• If the layers selected contain at least some linked layers within the selection, plus any number of unlinked layers, clicking the link icon extends the link set to include the unlinked layers in the selection.
• If the layers selected contains linked layers from two or more link sets plus at least one unlinked layer, everything in the selection gets put into a "new" linked set.
• Layers can only belong to one link set at a time.
To link two or more layers, select them in the Layer's panel and click the Link icon. You can also assign a custom keyboard shortcut using the Keyboard Shortcut Editor to ass a shortcut to Link/Unlink layers. When layers are linked together, commands applied to one layer will also be applied to linked layers (when possible). This includes, moving, transforming, aligning, distributing, apply styles, etc.
Note: before Photoshop had the ability to select multiple layers, linking was more heavily utilized. Now, it is used with complex documents when multiple layers require identical changes thereby eliminating the need to have to reselect multiple layers again and again.
For most people, the fact that Camera Raw is a plug in that works in both Bridge and Photoshop is completely transparent. The most common workflow is to find the desired image in Bridge, double click to open it in the Camera Raw dialog box and start editing edits. When you're finished, you click Open Image (or Open Object if the "Open in Photoshop as Smart Objects" is checked) to open in Photoshop.
But there is a subtle difference when you use one of the other methods (ie not double clicking in Bridge) to open a raw file For example, when in Bridge, if you choose File > Open in Camera Raw, click the Open in Camera Raw icon, or Command (Mac) / Control (Win) + R to open Camera Raw files, Bridge launches the Camera Raw plug in so that it runs within Bridge. The advantage to this workflow is that you can make edits without having Photoshop open. Another small change that you will notice if you choose one of the previously mentioned methods for opening raw files-when you are finished making edits, the default button is "Done" and by clicking it, you will be returned to Bridge.
Note if, when in Bridge, you choose to double click on a raw file (thus launching the camera raw plug-in in Photoshop) clicking the Done button will close the raw plug in and leave you in Photoshop.
In order to change the default rendering of your raw files, open an image in Camera Raw, then change any necessary sliders or options and choose "Save New Camera Raw Defaults". From that point on, every time you open raw file from that camera you're settings will be the way that you want them. Note: using the Camera Raw Preferences, you can make the Camera defaults specific to Camera Serial Number and ISO setting. Setting new Camera Raw defaults is most commonly used for selecting an alternate default profile under the Calibration tab. For more information check out the movie on tv.adobe.com - Working with DNG Camera Profiles.
Holding down the Option (Mac) / Alt (Win) key changes the Save, Open and Cancel options:
• "Save Image..." changes to "Save Image" (with out the ellipse) which saves the image bypassing the Save Options dialog (it automatically uses the last settings).
• "Open Image" changes to "Open Copy" which opens a copy of the image. This would be useful for opening multiple copies of the same file processed in different ways.
"Cancel" changes to "Reset" which reverts the image settings to the beginning of the session (not the camera defaults, the image settings - although this might be the same if it's the first time the image is opened in Camera Raw).
When using the Point curve (in the Tone Curve panel) many of the shortcuts that work in Photoshop also work in Camera Raw. For example, Command (Mac) / Control (Win) -click in the preview are to set a point on the curve. Then, use the arrow key (up and down, left and right) to reposition the curve (add the shift key to move in larger increments). To select multiple points in the Curves panel, Shift click the points on the curve. In addition, Control + Tab will move to the next point on the curve (yes, it's the same shortcut on both Mac and Win).
While in Camera Raw, several of the same keyboard shortcuts apply as in Bridge for adding star ratings and color labels.
• Command (Mac) / Control (Win) + 1, 2-5 for 1-5 stars.
• Command (Mac) / Control (Win) + 6, 7-9 for color labels.
• Command (Mac) / Control (Win) + "." or "," to increase/decrease star ratings.
Note that Command (Mac) / Control (Win) + 0 will "Fit in View" so you'll need to use "." to decrease star ratings to zero (or, if you have more than one image opened in Camera Raw, click on the "no-rating" icon in the filmstrip on the left hand side.
In Camera Raw, Command (Mac) / Control (Win) + U sets new black and white points.
In order to see if any highlights or shadows in an image are clipped to pure black/white, tap the "O" / "U" key to turn on the clipping warning. Clipped highlights will be displayed in red, shadows in blue. I think Over/Under exposure to remember these shortcuts for viewing clipping warnings in shadow / highlights.