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- COLOR RANGE IN A SELECTION
You can narrow the focus of the Select>Color Range command by
making a basic selection first. For example, if you want Color Range to
select only a blue tie, but the person is wearing a blue suit, when you
click on the blue tie with the Eyedropper tool and adjust the Fuzziness
slider, by default Color Range is going to select everything that’s blue.
If you make a loose selection around the tie using the Lasso tool (L)
before launching Color Range, then Color Range will only “look” inside
that selection and will ignore other areas of blue. This makes it much
easier to end up with a selection of only the tie.
22. KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS WITH
LOADING CHANNELS
When you have several channels, you can take advantage of keyboard
shortcuts to make selections from that channel information. In
the Channels panel (Window>Channels), hold the Command (PC:
Ctrl) key, and click on a channel thumbnail to load it as a selec-
tion. Hold Command-Shift (PC: Ctrl-Shift) and click on a channel
thumbnail to add that channel to the existing selection. Hold
Command-Option (PC: Ctrl-Alt) and click on a channel thumbnail
to remove it from the existing selection. Hold Command-Option-
Shift (PC: Ctrl-Alt-Shift) and click on a channel thumbnail to make
a selection that intersects with the existing selection (assuming
there’s some overlap).
23. SCRUBBY SLIDER CONTROLS
Scrubby sliders are a very efficient way to change values in a field.
Simply hover your cursor over the name of the field, and when the
cursor changes to a pointing hand with two arrows, click-and-drag
left or right to change the value in the field. Sometimes the numbers
move too quickly (or not quickly enough), but you can use these
keyboard modifiers to change that: Hold down Option (PC: Alt) to
slow down the speed of the scrubby slider; hold down Shift to speed
up the movement of the scrubby slider.
24. TYPE EDITING SHORTCUTS
When you’re working with type, there are some very useful shortcuts
that can speed up your work, and the best part is that they all use the
same modifier keys. Here’s how you can edit selected text by holding
down Command-Shift (PC: Ctrl-Shift) and then tapping these keys:
makes the text larger by 1 point
- < makes the text smaller by 1 point
- L aligns left
- C aligns center
- R aligns right
- J justifies text
- DON’T USE THESE PATH TOOLS
Although there are separate tools for Add Anchor Point, Delete
Anchor Point, and Convert Anchor Point, you don’t need them. With
an existing path and the Pen tool (P), clicking on an existing point will
delete it, clicking on the path will add an anchor point, and holding
down Option (PC: Alt) and clicking-and-dragging on a straight
anchor point will convert it to a curved anchor point. Holding down
Option (PC: Alt) and simply clicking on a curved anchor point will
convert it to a straight anchor point. Holding down Command (PC:
Ctrl) will temporary switch to the Direct Selection tool.
Using Color Range
without making a
selection firstMaking a loose selection
around the tie before
using Color Range©Adobe Stock/cristovao31