Time-Saving Tips Using Photoshop

Discover how to work more efficiently with Adobe Photoshop—and spend more time on your creative project.

Introduction

• Saving time with Photoshop
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1. Performance and Interface Tips

• Changing interface settings
• Customizing Photoshop
• Leveraging workspaces
• Zooming techniques
• Panning techniques
• Essential Photoshop preferences
• Picking up colors

2. Shortcuts

• Using Photoshop tool shortcuts
• Working with the foreground and background colors
• Undo shortcut
• Working with layers
• Selecting and moving layers
• Showing and hiding layers
• Merging layers
• Layer opacity and blending modes
• Simplifying the Layers panel
• Masking shortcuts
• Adjusting brush size and hardness
• Scrubby sliders

3. Selections and Masking

• Transforming selections
• Selection tool techniques
• Feathering selections
• Saving and loading selections
• Quick Mask mode
• Using the Quick Selection tool
• Adding a color adjustment
• Using Select and Mask
• The Blend If trick

4. Working with Type

• Creating type elements
• Previewing fonts
• Changing type properties
• Clipping images to text

5. Efficiencies

• Working with Auto-Select
• Layer styles
• Resetting a dialog box
• Resetting a tool
• Removing a color cast
• Fill vs. Opacity
• Smart Objects
• Stacking layer styles
• Image Processor
• Creating Photoshop actions

Conclusion

• Next steps