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Another way to personalize your Photoshop experience

is by changing the colors of paths and Quick Mask. I’ve

often found that their default colors don’t work for me

when I’m retouching certain images. Let me show you

how to modify their colors.

SHORTCUT #9: PATHS COLOR CHANGE

If you love the Pen tool (P) as much as I do, I imagine there

may have been a few times when you were creating a path

around a blue subject, and you wished you could change

the color of the path. Or maybe you’d like to change the

path thickness so it’s easier for you to see. Well, my friend,

I’m going to tell you how to do it.

Go to Photoshop (PC: Edit)>Preferences>Guides,

Grids & Slices, and select a new color under the Path

Options drop-down menu in the Path section. To the

right of that is a drop-down menu where you can select

the thickness of the path.

SHORTCUT #11: THE BANANA

This last shortcut has no real use, but it will make

your workspace look a little more fun! Click-and-

hold on the three dots below the tools in the

Toolbar and select Edit Toolbar. Now the only

thing you need to do is press-and-hold the Shift

key and click Done to close the Customize Tool-

bar dialog. A banana will appear on your Tool-

bar where those three dots were.

To remove the banana from the Toolbar,

click-and-hold on the banana, and select Edit

Toolbar to open the Customize Toolbar dialog

again. Then, Command-click (PC: Ctrl-click)

on Done.

I hope your nice, new workspace feels as great

as a fresh, clean home with rearranged and

dusted furniture! n

An alternate, and probably easier, way to change the

color and thickness of paths is to click the gear icon in

the Options Bar to open the Path Options.

SHORTCUT #10: QUICK MASK COLOR CHANGE

To change the color of the Quick Mask overlay, double-c lick

on the Quick Mask icon near the bottom of the Toolbar

to open the Quick Mask Options dialog. Then, c lick on

the red square in the Color section to select a new color in

the Color Picker. Adjust the Opacity to taste, and c lick OK.