Monday, March 2, 2009

Rediscovering Photoshop

With the opportunity to work with a new version of Photoshop, I'm slowly learning what all the new features are. Some are CS4 specific, others are from previous versions that I never owned.

- When windows are tiled, you can move the canvas or zoom all images at the same time by pressing down shift
- Selecting the hand tool and then pressing h will allow you to zoom out to bird's eye view
- Hold shift and then the keyboard shortcut to cycle through tools
- Selecting the zoom tool and then holding down the mouse button will automatically zoom in until you let go
- Content aware scaling will transform the image without distorting the main subject (I redid my shortcut to command-shift-t)

BTW, all the versions of Photoshop I've worked with: 3, 5, 7, CS, CS4.

Links to some sites explaining the features:
- http://www.chrisorwig.com/cs4/
- http://www.photoshopuser.com/cs4/sk_features.html

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