- 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
DON'T CANCEL; RESET AND SAVE TIME
Most of Photoshop's dialogs (but not all) will let you use this little tip, which can save you loads of time. When you're making changes in a dialog (let's use the Levels dialog as an example) and decide that you don't like the changes you've made, one option is to click the Cancel button to close the dialog, leaving your image unchanged. Then you can reopen the dialog and try again. This is an incredible waste of valuable time, so instead, Photoshop lets you “reset” the dialog—putting the settings back to what they were when you first opened it. Just hold the Option key (PC: Alt key) and look at the Cancel button—it changes into the Reset button. Click it, and it resets the dialog automatically, as if you hadn't made any changes at all. Big, big time saver.