Share a Photoshop tip!

||+520908|quickandeasy said-|| hey joiaco!

Select something with your Marquee tool, then click ‘CMD + SHIFT + M’ and this will bring up the Measure tool and tell you the size of your slection

Edit: CNTRL+SHIFT+M on a PC.

Here’s a screencast example: http://cl.ly/DUyS

THANKS A LOT – that shortcut is on the verge of long! But i am really pleased to have it.

· Multiple views for one window. Window > Arrange > New Window for to open a new window view for a document. Same document, just another window with it. All changes happen on both. You can use a different zoom levels for each and put the other extra window on another display. Example: working in close on a webpage, second display always has 100% view for quick glance.

· Set and save Marquee sizes to exact pixels. Marquee tool then set Style > Fixed Size at the top to whatever size. Personally I’d set it to “New Selection” at top left so you can move it after you release. Save commonly used sizes in Tool Presets. Example: Set as fixed size of 200×200px, save it as a Tool, anytime you need that size just select it in tools and click or click and hold on document. If “New Selection” is/was set you can let go, and redrag. If not, you can “hold” it and move before the initial release. To add more than one at once just hold shift or use “Add to selection” at top like normal.

· Stitches with type tool on a path. Or anything available via fonts like stars. Scalable, editable, variable spacing, non destructive. Takes some learning of the way the type on path behaves, think pen tool but worse.

· Bring back default “Background” layer by using Layer > New > Layer from background on an empty/any layer.

· Set the “Tolerance” of selection to vector path conversion by right clicking canvas selection with marquee tool and using “Make Work Path”. Also works by using path panel menu or alt clicking path panel icon at bottom.

So I just accidently discovered something new

To quickly toggle layer visibility on/off on multiple layers, click the ‘eye’ icon on one layer, then drag your mouse up/down over the other ‘eye’ icons you want to toggle.

I recorded a quick screencast here: http://www.screenr.com/1Tws

Nice tip! you just saved me 100,000 mouse clicks!

I just accidentally discovered something new (again)...

I use the keyboard numbers to toggle layer opacity.

It’s always annoyed me that I couldn’t toggle layer fill from the keyboard and that I’d have to use the slider when I wanted to change it.

Well, I just discovered (by accident) that when you have your layer selected, hold down shift and press one of the numbers on your keyboard as if you were wanting to toggle the opacity and instead, it’ll toggle the layer fill!

Aahh, many milliseconds of mouse using time saved!

save type tool presets as a “Tool” for commonly used sizes/fonts/settings

This sounds interesting, deiby. Can you elaborate?

IronBayou said

save type tool presets as a “Tool” for commonly used sizes/fonts/settings

This sounds interesting, deiby. Can you elaborate?

You can save presets for any tool using the Tool Presets feature. If you use certain combinations of fonts, sizes, leading all the time you can save them so you don’t have to re-enter the settings manually. However, PS CS6.1 has paragraph styles which I believe are better?

Cmd+Shift+Y (Ctrl+Shift+Y on PC) will toggle CMYK only colors when you have the Color Picker open.

If you have multiple layers in a .psd document and want to show only chosen layer, simply press Alt key and left click on “eye icon” on a chosen layer. In a result of this, other layers will be hidden. You can revert this action – simply repeat action

Hope this will be useful for some of you

kevinhamil said
Cmd+Shift+Y (Ctrl+Shift+Y on PC) will toggle CMYK only colors when you have the Color Picker open.

Nice!

In CS6, this icon also represents when you’re outside of CMYK colours: