Palettes are often in the way. One method of quickly moving a palette out of the way is to send it to the edge of the screen. To do so, press Shift and click the palette’s title bar to snap the palette to the nearest edge of the screen, away from the centre of the image window.
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When you are making a new color gradient and you want to use the same color more than once, don’t recreate it. Just hold down the Option/Alt key and drag a copy of the slider.
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Although PhotoShop’s Image Size and Canvas Size dialog boxes are fairly straightforward, there is a hidden feature of which you may not be aware. While the Image Size or Canvas Size dialog boxes are open, you can match the image or canvas size and resolution of another open image. To do so, select the image you want to match from the Window menu.
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You may have noticed that PhotoShop automatically adjusts the settings in the New dialog box to match the contents of the Clipboard. If you want to bypass this feature so that PhotoShop ignores the Clipboard and opens the New dialog box with default settings, press Alt in Windows or Option on the Mac and choose File, New.
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Photoshop only gives you bold and italics options when the typeface includes these styles. If you want to simulate bold and italic formatting styles when these options are not available, you still can, but the option is somewhat hidden. If your character palette is not showing, click the button on the type tool options bar to show it. With the text selected, click the arrow in the upper right hand corner of the palette menu. There you’ll find Faux Bold and Faux Italics.
Warning: You cannot warp type when Faux Bold formatting has been applied.
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I often cannot see the cursor whenever I am in a grayish area of the image.
Solution: press down on the spacebar and the hand icon becomes visible where the cursor is located. Some other keys also work, depending on what tool you’re using, but the spacebar always works.
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