- Miss the Old Default Actions?
- Rearranging your Brushes
- Find the Center of Any Document
- No More Jaggy Lasso Tool Selections
- Open Up Some Screen Real Estate
- Let Photoshop Do the Work in Curves
- Want a Finer Grid? You Got It!
- You Don't Need the Brushes Palette to Change Brush Size
- Rotate to Any Angle the Fast Way
- Get Rid of Unwanted Brushes
- Brushes Right Where You Want 'em
- Navigating the Brush Picker Like a Pro
- Get More Control Over Your Paint Strokes
- Speed Tip to Rotate Through Open Images
- Instantly Find the Center of Any Object
- Making Your Guide Flip
- Creating Temporary Brushes
- Reusing Your Last Curve Setting
- Bringing Back Those Cropped-Away Areas
- Fix Those Stray Pixels Fast!
- Getting More Control over the Magic Wand
- Making the Color Palette Work Twice as Hard
- Use Your Last Settings and Save Time
- Hit Those Channels Fast
- How to Get an Undo After You've Closed the Document
- Using the Pen? Stay Away from the Toolbox
- Put Your Gradient Picker at Your Fingertips
- Don't Click in That Field!
- Out of Memory? Try This First
- How to Unerase
- Let Photoshop Straighten Your Crooked Scans
- Copy One Layer, or Copy 'em All
- Stuck in a Field? Here's How to Escape
- Don't Cancel; Reset and Save Time
- See Every Tweak with Bigger Filter Gallery Previews
- Showing One Effect in the Filter Gallery
- Use the Move Tool Anytime
- Filter Gallery Zoom Quick Tip
STUCK IN A FIELD? HERE'S HOW TO ESCAPE
This is one of those tips that keeps you from pulling your hair out. Sometimes when you're editing values in a field (for example, you're typing numbers in the Opacity field for a layer) and you've entered the number you want, Photoshop doesn't automatically take you out of that field (meaning your cursor is still flashing in the Opacity field). It gets worse if you've switched to another layer (besides the Background layer) and you want to use a keyboard shortcut to switch tools. For example, you press the letter T to switch to the Type tool, but instead of getting the Type tool, you get an error sound because your cursor is still in the Opacity field (you can't type letters in a number field). Here's how to get around it: Just press the Return (PC: Enter) key on your keyboard to lock in the change in your field and release your keyboard for other tasks.