Photoshop_User_July_2017

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USEFUL SHORTCUTS

When the channel looks like the mask

you need, hold down Command (PC: Ctrl)

and click on the channel to load it as the

selection. Click back on the RGB channel in

the Channels panel.

For this example, back in the Layers

panel, I made a mask from the selection and

put a new sky photo below the layer. n

Here are a couple of shortcuts to add to your
Photoshop skills:

• Press X to swap the Foreground and Back-
  ground color (incredibly useful for switching
  between painting with black and white).


• Press the Left Bracket key ([) on your keyboard
  to reduce your brush size, and the Right Bracket
  key (]) to increase the brush size.


• Press the first number of the Opacity you
  want to use for your brush (e.g., 2 for 20%,
  4 for 40%, etc.). Press 0 to bring the brush’s
  Opacity back to 100%.


• Shift-click on the layer mask thumbnail to
  hide the mask; Shift-click again to show
  the effect of the mask.


• To switch your brush to Overlay mode using
  only the keyboard, press Shift-Option-O
  (PC: Shift-Alt-O). To set the brush back to
  Normal blend mode, press Shift-Option-N
  (PC: Shift-Alt-N).