Photoshop is LITTERED with hidden gems. Play around enough in there, and you’ll find two notebooks full and a day’s work! Ask a handful of Ps educators what their 5 hidden gems are, and I can almost guarantee you’ll hear mixed results.
So how do you narrow it down to just 5?
I am focusing on hidden features for today’s video that make the editing process much more efficient. So efficient, in fact, it feels like CHEATING when you are using them.
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For Blake, it's all about the art and process synergy. He dives deep into complex topics and makes them easy to understand through his outside-the-box thinking so that you can use these tricks in your workflow today!
For Blake, it's all about the art and process synergy. He dives deep into complex topics and makes them easy to understand through his outside-the-box thinking so that you can use these tricks in your workflow today!
I think that stamping visible layers was available in the menu of older Photoshop versions. I knew it and the Onlinesysteme place I could learn about it is the menu. Seems to got lost with newer versions.
Discovered the stamp key sequence way back in ’95 or ’96 when my kitten jumped onto the keyboard. Took me a day or two of key pressing to figure out where she landed so I could get there again. Called it The Sum of All of Which Has Gone Before layer. An acronym of that is not all that hard to type. Has more class than stmp.
Blake – I am looking for the promised “list of tutorials” discussing blend-if. Bye the way, Blend if is awesome – thanks for the
tutorials. I have sound several by searching your course titles containing “been if? and was curious if I have missed any. — Eric Jones
It’s at the end screen of the video. Should be in the upper right corner of the video. If it doesn’t show here, click the open in YouTube button on the embedded video and fast forward to the last 20 seconds. All end screens are 20 seconds long at the end of every video.
Awesome tips 🙂
What works great for me is using a gaming mouse with a lot of buttons where I can customize what the buttons do. I can assign whatever shortcuts I need to any button (one button is doing the “Ctrl-Alt-Shift-E”). I can assign also macros to buttons where a whole series of key strokes is recorded along with pauses between key presses making some automations a breeze.
The software for the mouse also allows me to use a number of different profiles where those buttons do something different (I have a Photoshop profile, a default as well as a couple game profiles).
Once you get used with such a mouse you can never go back 🙂
I have cmd-alt-shift-E as a hotkey on my graphics tablet. New to me is the alt-enter to duplicate a layer. Keep up the good work.
Possibly you skimped a use of the Alt key in Blend-If. It’s quite difficult to separate the two parts of the “arrow”, but if you hold down Alt and then put the cursor where you want the split half-arrow to go, there it is. You don’t have to touch the arrows at the two ends of the scale at all.
Love the options with the option key. I still have a hard time grasping the difference between opacity and fill, but the tricks with those eight blend modes helps a little. Thank you. Now to download the new actions.