Adobe Photoshop is a raster graphics editor developed and published by Adobe Systems for Windows and OS X.
Photoshop was created in 1988 by Thomas and John Knoll. Since then, it has become the de facto industry standard in raster graphics editing, such that the word "photoshop" has become a verb as in "to Photoshop an image," "photo shopping" and "photoshop contest", though Adobe discourages such use. It can edit and compose raster images in multiple layers and supports masks, alpha compositing and several color models including RGB, CMYK, Lab color space, spot color and duotone. Photoshop has vast support for graphic file formats but also uses its own PSD and PSB file formats which support all the aforementioned features. In addition to raster graphics, it has limited abilities to edit or render text, vector graphics (especially through clipping path), 3D graphics and video. Photoshop's featureset can be expanded by Photoshop plug-ins, programs developed and distributed independently of Photoshop that can run inside it and offer new or enhanced features. so we want to go to reveal some Photoshop secrets which make you more professional designer in your pathway.
2. In the top right hand corner of every panel is a little
icon that reveals a fly-out menu, giving additional
options that you might not have seen before. You can
use this menu to set your layer panel thumbnails to be
larger, crop to artwork and much more – experiment!
01. Control your panels
3. Paste in Place is one of those functions that you'll use all
the time if you know about it, but if you don’t it will come
as a revelation! After you've made a selection either in your
current document, or in a second document if you're
combining artwork, copy as usual by choosing Edit>Copy,
or by using the shortcut keys Ctrl+C (Windows) or
Cmd+C (Mac).
Once you're viewing the document you want to paste into,
use the shortcut keys Ctrl+Shift+V (Windows) or
Cmd+Shift+V (Mac).
02. Paste in Place
4. If you are doing detailed work such as cloning or edge refinement, it
can be easy to lose sight of the bigger picture. Equally, if you're
working at a high zoom level, navigating around the document can
become tiresome when you need to get back to your high-level zoom.
With the Bird's Eye View feature, when zoomed in you can press and
hold the H key on your keyboard, and click and drag with your mouse
to temporarily zoom out to a bird's eye view. When you let go, you'll
zoom back in to the level you were working at.
03. Bird's Eye View
5. 04. Interactively set styles
When you're adding a drop-shadow layer
style,
move the dialogue box to one side. By
clicking
and dragging on the canvas you can use your
mouse to interactively move the shadow
around
relative to the layer casting the shadow.
6. Once you've made a transformation to a layer or object using
Edit>Transform, you can very quickly repeat that same
transformation on another layer or object. Simply press
Cmd+Shift+T on a Mac, or Ctrl+Shift+T on Windows, and
Photoshop will repeat the same transformation on the currently active
layer.
05. Repeat Transformations
7. 06. Solo your layer
If you'd like to preview a single layer, you
can quickly get a look at it on its own by
Alt+clicking on the layer's eye icon in the
layers panel. Alt+clicking on the eye icon
again will return you to the previous layer
visibility state. Note that if you
accidentally click on another layer's eye
icon you'll lose the ability to revert back to
the previous state.
8. 07. Enable visibility history
If you want to avoid the problem of
losing layer visibility settings while
previewing individual layers, you can
tick a setting in the History Panel
options dialogue box that will enable
history state for layer visibility. Once
checked, you can use
Cmd/Ctrl+Alt+Z to step backwards
through your history as you always
have, but you'll find changes to the
visibility of layers is now included
within that history.
9. 08. Merge vector shapes
If you're lucky enough to have Photoshop
CS6 at your disposal, you can merge two
vector shapes together and keep the result
as an editable vector. Simply select the two
shape layers and hit Cmd/Ctrl+E on
your keyboard to merge them together. In
previous versions this would have resulted
in a rasterized layer, but Adobe updated
the functionality for CS6.
10. 09. Quickly finish editing text
When you're working with text boxes in
Photoshop it can be frustrating to move
between tools as your shortcut keys won’t
work. A great little secret tip is that you can
press Ctrl/Cmd+Return on your
keyboard to finish editing text and move
focus outside the text field. This allows you
to quickly select other tools using their
shortcut keys as appropriate (e.g. V for the
move tool).
11. It's easy to become sloppy with the way you name and organize
files. But if you have to hand over your work to others, this can
rebound on you, giving you a bad rep as people struggle to work
out what's going on. Follow our advice on how to organize your
files properly
10. Organize your files properly