Photoshop CS4 Power Shortcuts Training DVD

Introduction

• Welcome Demo
• Using the exercise files

1. Top 20 Photoshop Power Shortcuts

• The Make Better key Demo
• Tool shortcuts Demo
• Spring-loaded tool shortcuts Demo
• Zooming Demo
• Bird's-Eye View Demo
• Hiding panels Demo
• Changing brush size and hardness Demo
• Resetting and swapping colors Demo
• Opacity Demo
• Labels and arrow keys Demo
• Scrubby sliders Demo
• Measurement system overrides Demo
• Auto Select Layer Demo
• Nudging Demo
• Previewing, resetting, canceling, and applying Demo
• Context menus Demo
• Undo Demo
• Editing keyboard shortcuts
• Discovering what's new and finding help
• Resetting preferences at launch

2. Documents, Panels, and Navigation Shortcuts

• The Application frame
• The Application bar
• Opening files from Bridge
• Working with tabbed documents
• Cycling through open documents
• The Arrange Documents widget
• Moving layers between documents
• Keyboard shortcuts for tile options
• Stop tabbing my documents!
• Panning and zooming all windows
• Closing all documents
• Open GL navigation
• New document tricks
• The Rotate view
• Cycling through the screen modes
• Customizing the application background
• Status bar tricks
• Panel management options
• Managing panels with multiple panel docks
• Creating a panel flotilla
• Saving custom workspaces
• Quick spot and dust removal workflow
• Opening a flattened version of a layered file

3. Tool Shortcuts

• Tool presets
• Resetting all tools
• Changing the Tools panel
• Customizing presets with the Preset Manager

4. Move Tool Shortcuts

• Accessing the Move tool from any tool
• Selecting layers

5. Marquee Tool Shortcuts

• Selection modifiers
• Transforming selections
• Quick Mask is your friend
• Viewing a selection as an alpha channel
• Reselecting a previous selection

6. Lasso Tool Shortcuts

• The lasso tools
• The Magnetic Lasso tool

7. Crop Tool Shortcuts

• Options for the Crop tool
• The Hide and Delete options in the Crop tool
• Bringing back hidden pixels with Reveal All
• Making the canvas bigger with the Crop tool
• Relative canvas size
• Cropping in perspective

8. Eyedropper and Ruler Tool Shortcuts

• The Eyedropper tool
• The Color Sampler tool
• Straightening a crooked image
• Measuring an angle

9. Clone and Healing Brush Tool Shortcuts

• Saving file size when healing and cloning
• Cloning from a different document
• Clone first, then heal

10. Brush Tool Shortcuts

• A new way to change brush size and hardness
• Cycling through the brushes
• Painting a straight line
• Painting a dotted line

11. Gradient Tool Shortcuts

• Cycling through gradient styles

12. Fill Shortcuts

• Using fill commands instead of the Bucket tool

13. Shape Tool Shortcuts

• Options for the shape tools
• Arrow options for the Line tool
• Add a new shape to an existing shape layer

14. Type Shortcuts

• Point type vs. paragraph type
• Canceling and applying text edits
• Repositioning text while in the Type tool
• Selecting text on a type layer
• Renaming a text layer
• Shift + click near an existing type layer
• A better way to preview fonts
• Jumping directly to the font you want
• Changing type size and color
• Accessing the Character and Paragraph panels
• Type size keyboard shortcuts
• Kerning and tracking keyboard shortcuts
• Leading keyboard shortcuts
• Alignment keyboard shortcuts
• Changing multiple type layers at once
• How to hang your punctuation
• Using filters and keeping type editable
• Checking spelling
• Using presets for the Type tool as styles

15. Layer and Layer Group Shortcuts

• Converting a background layer
• Duplicating a layer with the keyboard
• Duplicating a layer with the mouse
• Duplicating layers across documents
• Selecting layers with the keyboard
• Changing layer stacking order
• Layer visibility shortcuts
• Undoing layer visibility
• Creating new layers
• Creating a new layer below the active layer
• Locking transparency
• Making selections from layers
• Turning selections into layers
• Changing the thumbnails in the Layers panel
• Changing layer opacity
• Changing fill opacity
• Grouping and ungrouping layers
• Collapsing and expanding all layer groups
• Deleting layers and groups
• Layer clipping masks
• Cycling through the blend modes
• Keyboard shortcuts for specific blend modes
• Merging layers
• Creating a composite copy of a layer group
• Creating a composite copy of visible layers
• Copying visible layers
• Color-coding layers

16. Layer Mask Shortcuts

• Different ways to view a layer mask
• Toggling between a layer and a layer mask
• Moving a layer mask to a different layer
• Duplicating a layer mask
• Adding a layer mask on a layer group
• Pasting into a layer mask
• Moving layers and layer masks
• Inverting layer masks
• Refine Mask shortcuts
• Deleting a layer mask

17. Adjustment Layer Shortcuts

• Working smarter by changing your keyboard shortcuts
• Toggling the preview of an adjustment layer
• Targeted Curves adjustments
• Targeted Hue/Saturation adjustments
• Adjustment layer options
• Cycling through channels for Curves and Levels
• Cycling through Hue/Saturation colors
• Clipping adjustment layers automatically
• Starting with a selection
• Saving time with adjustment layer presets
• Bonus: Auto commands as adjustment layers

18. Curves Adjustment Layer Shortcuts

• Options for the Curves adjustment layer
• Setting a curve point in the composite channel
• Setting a curve point in each color channel
• Working with curve points
• Accessing the Tonal Clipping preview

19. Layer Styles Shortcuts

• Scaling layer styles
• Moving and copying layer styles
• Creating strokes with sharp corners
• Saving a layer style
• Adding a watermark to an image
• Performance tip: Hide all layer effects
• Tricks for opening the Layer Style dialog box

20. Channels Shortcuts

• Doing the Channel Walk
• Loading selections from channels with the mouse
• Loading selections from channels with the keyboard

21. View, Rulers, and Guides Shortcuts

• Toggling the rulers, guides and grids
• Locking and snapping
• Changing the orientation of guides
• Snapping guides to ruler marks
• Changing the measurement system
• Using Percentage to create guides
• Guides and image size
• Changing the ruler origin point

22. Free Transform Shortcuts

• Everyday modifiers for Free Transform
• Distorting transformations
• Skewing transformations
• Perspective transformations
• Where are the Free Transform handles?
• Transform Again
• Transform Again and Copy
• Moving the transformation center point
• Aligning a layer to the center of a document
• Nondestructive transformations
• Warp transformations

23. Filters Shortcuts

• Reapplying the last filter you used
• Reopening the last filter you used
• Assigning shortcuts to your favorite filters
• Using filters nondestructively
• Applying a filter to multiple layers

24. Bonus Shortcuts

• Combining files to layers from Adobe Bridge
• Making Bicubic Sharper the default algorithm
• Choosing a different color ramp
• Format multiple files with a template and variables

Conclusion

• Goodbye