TITLE : Quickly Select A Layer Without Accessing the Layer Palette
VERSION : Photoshop CS on WinXP Pro
TIP/TRICK : With the document focused, you can hold down CTRL and RIGHT CLICK on the document in order to bring up a list of layers which contain content in the area selected. You can then select that layer from the context menu to automatically focus the layer palette to that layer.
You can optionally ALT and RIGHT CLICK instread to bypass the context menu and automatically focus the top-most layer which contains content in the area you clicked on.
TITLE : Automatically Name A New Layer
VERSION : Photoshop CS on Windows XP
TIP/TRICK : If you hold down ALT while you drag a layer in the layer palette to the CREATE NEW LAYER button, a dialogue window will open, prompting you for the name of the layer. This keeps you from having to double click the name of the default new layer and re-typing it in.
TITLE : Quickly Create a Clipping Layer
VERSION : Photoshop CS on Windows XP
TIP/TRICK : If you move your cursor in between 2 layers on the layer's palette, and then ALT + CLICK, it will function as a toggle to create a clipping mask of the adjacent layers.
TITLE : Quickly Adjust the Kerning (Space Between Letters) of Text
VERSION : Photoshop CS on Windows XP
TIP/TRICK : On a text layer, select the entire contents of the text and then press ALT + LEFT/RIGHT ARROW to INCREASE/DECREASE the Kerning by 1. Optionally, you can press ALT + SHIFT + LEFT/RIGHT ARROW to INCREASE/DECREASE the Kerning by 10.
VERSION : Photoshop CS on Windows XP
TIP/TRICK
: If you select the MEASURE TOOL, you can draw out a line with it along any imaginary (or actual) line in the photo that you know should be either straight up or straight down. After you've made this line along this edge, goto IMAGE > ROTATE CANVAS > ARBITRARY and Photoshop will automatically populate the rotate value with the amount needed to rotate the image to a perfect horizontal or vertical which is parallel to the line you drew. In effect, this will "straighten" your image.
TITLE : Automatically Link Layers without accessing the Layer Palette
VERSION : Photoshop CS on Windows XP
TIP/TRICK : If you have the MOVE TOOL selected and CTRL + SHIFT CLICK on layers which contain content, you will automatically link that layer with the currently selected one.
TITLE : Quickly resize image to fit the window
VERSION : Photoshop CS on Windows XP
TIP/TRICK : To quickly resize your image to fit the available space Photoshop is using, simply double-click the HAND TOOL.
TITLE : Quickly access the MOVE TOOL
VERSION : Photoshop CS on Windows XP
TIP/TRICK : During many times (but not all), you can quickly access the MOVE TOOL by simply holding down CTRL.
TITLE : Quickly access the HAND TOOL
VERSION : Photoshop CS on Windows XP
TIP/TRICK : During many times (but not all), you can quickly access the HAND TOOL by holding down the SPACE BAR. This is exceptionally helpful when you are using the F key in order to view in different screen modes.
TITLE : Quickly change the master opacity
VERSION : Photoshop CS on Windows XP
TIP/TRICK : Many times, as long as you have no other inputs focused, and the layer is simply focused, you can press 0 - 9 in order to change the current layer's opacity from 10% (1) to 100% (0). If you press 2 number successively, you can set the layer's exact opacity. ie, "4" then "2" will set the layer opacity to 42%.
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