Photoshop tips and treats

Photoshop IT Seminar - Angie

7th, 15th & 22nd of October 2013

Preset - International paper

- size

- resolution 300

- Colourmode CMYK

Image - rotation 90' for landscape

1st layer is background.

Always locked, to alter - double click

Transform image - layer

- edit 

- transform

- scale

- hold shift to keep in scale

- click tick icon to finish

Marquee tool - copy

- paste

- deselect

- then move new layer

Shortcut to duplicate - Alt - then move new copy  

Shortcut to magnifying glass - 'Z' or 'Alt Z' for minus

Shortcut to move tool - 'V'

Shortcut to marquee tool - 'M'

Shortcut to desaturate - 'Ctrl/ Shft/ U' - filter - pixelate - colour/ half tone.

Colour Palette using marquee tool

To put duplicated image on a new layer, drag image icon at the side

Hue & Saturaton - coloursize makes image all shandes & tones of one colour.

Luminosity - edit - fill -foreground - go on image - select drop down above - luminosity - changes image to tones of any layer below/beneath it. 

Then flatten/ merge layers - Ctrl 'E' or Layer - merge down.

This keeps image matching colour below.

Crop to remove excess colour around image - then to new background/ art board OR rectangle marquee tool.