![]() ![]() ![]() In Photoshop, we can now add a layer on top of this and turn it into a clipping mask. (As a visual aid, Photoshop shows transparency by displaying a white and grey checkerboard, much like when using a displacement map in Photoshop.) ![]() The image consists of one layer, part of which is text, the rest of which is empty of content - therefore transparent. The upper layer only shows up where the lower layer has pixels, while it becomes invisible in those areas where the lower layer has no pixels.Ĭonsider the ‘BEFORE’ image above taken from Photoshop. If I were helping a new user learn Photoshop, these are ten keystrokes I’d be teaching them.In short, a clipping mask is used in Photoshop to make one layer “apply” itself to the layer below, allowing you to control the visibility of the upper layer according to the pixels present on the lower layer.Īt first, clipping masks might seem confusing, but imagine that the lower layer consists of pixels and no pixels. To return to the regular normal or standard brush tip, press the Caps Lock key again. This is a small crosshair cursor and hides the actual size of the brush. Precise and crosshair cursorsįinally, not so much a keyboard shortcut as something that can go horribly wrong – pressing the Caps Lock key switches the Brush cursor into precise mode. In a similar way press M to get the Rectangular Marquee tool and Shift + M to get the Elliptical Marquee tool. The press Shift + B until the Mixer Brush appears. So, for example, to access the Mixer Brush which shares a tool position with the Brush tool and if the Mixer Brush is hidden, press B to get the Brush tool. Tools that share a tool palette position and a shortcut keystroke letter can be easily selected using the keystroke letter. Use the spacebar to access the Hand tool to move the document around. When a dialog such as the Layer Style dialog is open you can access the Zoom and Move tools by using Ctrl (Command on the Mac) to zoom in and Alt (Option on the Mac) to zoom out of the document. Drag on the name to adjust the slider value. Scrubby sliders appear as a hand with a pointing finger icon when you hold your mouse over the slider name. In Photoshop CS3, and later, most options in most dialogs that can be adjusted using a slider can also be adjusted using a scrubby slider. Not technically a keystroke but a “must know” tool are scrubby sliders. In Photoshop CS5, you can hold the Alt key and the right mouse button (on the Mac use the Control + Option keys) and drag up to increase or decrease brush hardness and drag left and right to size the brush. When you’re using a brush as an eraser, to paint with or in any tool that uses brushes, you can size the brush up or down using the keys on the keyboard. Continue to hold the it while you move the selection and let it go when the selection is in the correct place. Moving a selection is notoriously cumbersome without this keystroke: to move a selection while you are still drawing it, press and hold the Spacebar. Let go the Alt/Option key to return to the brush. Hold the Alt the key (Option on the Mac) to switch temporarily to the Eyedropper tool and click to select a new foreground color. When you’re working with a Photoshop brush and you want to sample a color from the image, instead of clicking the Eyedropper tool and then the Brush tool again, you can do it with a keystroke. To fill an empty layer with the current foreground or background color use Alt + Delete or Option + Backspace on the Mac to fill the layer with the Foreground color or Ctrl + Delete or Command + Backspace on the Mac or to fill with the Background color. This adds a flattened version of the image to the new layer but leaves the layers intact too. ![]() Here’s how to have your cake and eat it too (or more accurately, flatten your layers and keep them too).Īdd a new empty layer to the top of the layer stack, click in it and press Ctrl + Alt + Shift + E (Command + Option + Shift +E on the Mac). Sometimes you need, for example, to flatten the layers in an image to sharpen the result but you don’t want to get rid of the layers either. ![]()
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