Photoshop on the keyboard!(pc though)

[Amelius]

Ok...most of this might pertain mostly to cs on pc, but I still do have 7 so I'm going to compare a.s.p.
Pressing any of these keys will bring you to the corresponding mode your mouse will be using. Pressing shift, alt and ctrl keys with it give you new options.

I think that most of them are similar though so here goes! in order of importance:

B: brush or pen tool
G:paintfill tool or gradient
V: move tool
W:magic wand
Z: zoom tool (hold alt zooms out)
O:dodge/burn
L:lasso tool
M:marquee select
E:erase
U:custom shapes
A:arrow tools
P: pen tools
R: smudge, blur, sharpen
S:stamp, pattern stamp
T:type
I:eyedropper (use alt-click instead, faster!)
H: hand tool (hold spacebar down instead)
C:crop
K:slice
J:healing spot,redeyetools
X: switch background/foreground
F: full size (press again it goes back to normal, I hate accidently pressing it!)
D: default colors (B&W)
N: notes tool

Holding shift+ any tool: toggle through tool selection

Holding ctrl+ keys:

Ctrl click=select custom shape (black arrow)
S=save
T=transform
A=select all
Q=quit
O=open
Y= covert to cmyk
z= undo
w=close window
X=cut
V=paste
R=rulers
E=merge down
f=repeat filter
h: hide (love this, hides the spinning marquee so it isn't bugging you while you're shading!)
Right-click=select layer (convenient! just hold it over the layer, it will give you a list if there's multiple in one spot!)


Holding shift + rightclick:
While using pencil/brush or bucket: paintmode
while dodge/burn: mode (shadow, hi. and midtone)
With custom shapes: more options, free transform

Just holding shift :
While using custom shape tool: add to area
Selection tools: add to area

Holding alt:

with custom shape: subtract from area
with selection: sub from area
Held while using dodge or burn: Exact opposite of the same mode (burn highlight turns to dodge highlight, etc.)

that's not all, if more comes to me I'll put it here. This saves a ton of time without having to move the mouse back and forth hunting for tools when you can select stuff with one hand and use the mouse with the other, pretty much uninterrupted ^_^
Hopefully this helps out a bit!

[Violet]

I don't have the same photoshop you use so my short cuts are different. Though i do apprecate the time you put in here...though the most signifigent problem I'm haveing now is comprehending layers...I just don't get them but I suppose if i did it would make comic makeing a lot easer....

[Arya]

Is this photoshop 7? And what's 'PC'? Sorry for my ignorance but I've been wondering for a bit o.o

[jessix]

Accorindg to my understanding Amelia herself uses photoshop 7, so yes it should be for those, secondly there's 2 platforms for it, one is the pentium Personal Computer (PC) notoriously recognizeable by windows (more often then not)

the other platform is Mac, mac is rumoured to be more useful for graphic work then a PC.

[Caffeinated Sponge]

Layers are easy, best comprehended as being 'cels' - if you imagine a stack of clear sheets that you can build up the image with you aren't too far off. Layers can be moved up and down the stack, or nudged to alter registration. They can also be turned on or off (useful if you are going to do something odd and want a reference or escape route) and most importantly you can alter the opacity of them. There is also the possibility of 'adjustment layers' which are excellent for fine tuning an image non-destructively but way out there if you want to get your head around the basics first. I tend to overuse layers for escape routes (making duplicates and turning them off) because I I often want to go back further than the 20 operations I let my history pallette track. To be honest, I only really bother with History for the History Brush which I use extensively for blending cutouts.

Apple Macs are my platform of choice these days, although I started with Photoshop 3.3 on an AMD K6 based PC running Windows 95. I've used Photoshop for a living on both Macs and PC's and have to say that if you can get your hands on one, the Mac is a better platform for it, partly for colour accuracy in the screen (obviously this can't control the way you light your room) but mostly for memory handling. Macs look a bit more expensive, but they generally outperform all but the very most expensive PCs when running Adobe apps. That said, MS Office on the Mac is a bit of a dog, and if playing games is important, you'll probably hate it as you choice will be severely limited.

My single biggest gripe about the Mac version of Photoshop is that there is no shortcut for 'Clear', which after years of selecting and pressing the delete key is extremely annoying at times.

Generally, keyboard shortcuts are the same except for the modifiers (option, command and shift) - these work the same as CTRL ALT and shift but have different names...

[Odin]

Nov 26, 2007 7:51:54 GMT -5 jessix said:

Accorindg to my understanding Amelia herself uses photoshop 7, so yes it should be for those, secondly there's 2 platforms for it, one is the pentium Personal Computer (PC) notoriously recognizeable by windows (more often then not)

the other platform is Mac, mac is rumoured to be more useful for graphic work then a PC.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3q8_40GBuI