Photoshop Tips of February

Hi.
Lots of you follow me on twitter and Facebook and know that 5 days a week I post a Photoshop Tip of the day.

Today I decided to create this post based on February's Tips so it's easier to find.


Select layers palette, Hold SHIFT and click new Group, it will put all the selected layers inside new group.

To delete a style in the palette Hold ALT and click the one you want to delete.

With any lasso tool selected, Hold Control and click to close the selection area.

In Camera Raw hold Shift, the open image changes to open object so in Photoshop you can come back to Camera Raw.

In Camera Raw Hold ALT to change From Cancel to Reset all the effects on your photo.

Hold Alt and double click on locked layer to unlock.

Hold Alt and click in any tool, keep clicking to change tool in the same group.

With any tool selected Hold Control and use arrows to nudge unlocked layers.

With the move tool selected Hold ALT and click bracket keys to select layers...UP and Down.

With the gradient tool selected, Hold Control it will change the cursor so you can move the position of the layer.

With the dodge tool selected hold ALT to change temporarily to the burn tool.

Select the paint bucket, Hold SHIFT and Click on the document window to change the color.

Hold SHIFT+CONTROL+ALT and right click.It will open the floating color picker in CS5.

Hold down Ctrl-Alt-W to close more than one documents.

Hold down Alt (Option on Mac) while using the zoom tool, to switch from zoom-in to zoom-out.

Press Ctrl and [ or ] to move a layer down/up in the layers stack.

To enable / disable a mask, Shift-click on its thumbnail on the layers panel.

To convert text to a vector path Right-click on the text layer and select "Create Work Path"

I hope you liked it.

See you next time

Miguel