Time-Saving Tips Using Photoshop

Course details

Saving time on routine tasks in Adobe Photoshop CC means you have more time reserved for creativity. In this course, learn time-saving tips and tricks to speed up your Photoshop workflow. Adobe Certified Instructor Chad Chelius shows how to invoke commands with keyboard shortcuts and build layer efficiencies. Learn how to customize Photoshop to suit your needs, work more efficiently using Photoshop tool shortcuts, quickly add a color adjustment, change type properties, use actions to speed up your workflow, and much more.

Learning objectives
Customizing Photoshop
Zooming and panning techniques
Using Photoshop tool shortcuts
Selecting, moving, showing, and merging layers
Adjusting brush size
Transforming selections
Adding a color adjustment
Changing type properties
Working with Smart Objects

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Saving time with Photoshop
02 - Sending feedback

1. Performance and Interface Tips

03 - Changing interface settings
04 - Customizing Photoshop
05 - Leveraging workspaces
06 - Zooming techniques
07 - Panning techniques
08 - Essential Photoshop preferences
09 - Picking up colors

2. Shortcuts

10 - Using Photoshop tool shortcuts
11 - Working with the foreground and background colors
12 - Undo shortcut
13 - Working with layers
14 - Selecting and moving layers
15 - Showing and hiding layers
16 - Merging layers
17 - Layer opacity and blending modes
18 - Simplifying the Layers panel
19 - Masking shortcuts
20 - Adjusting brush size and hardness
21 - Scrubby sliders

3. Selections and Masking

22 - Transforming selections
23 - Selection tool techniques
24 - Feathering selections
25 - Saving and loading selections
26 - Quick Mask mode
27 - Using the Quick Selection tool
28 - Adding a color adjustment
29 - Using Select and Mask
30 - The Blend If trick

4. Working with Type

31 - Creating type elements
32 - Previewing fonts
33 - Changing type properties
34 - Clipping images to text

5. Efficiencies

35 - Working with Auto-Select
36 - Layer styles
37 - Resetting a dialog box
38 - Resetting a tool
39 - Removing a color cast
40 - Fill vs. Opacity
41 - Smart Objects
42 - Stacking layer styles
43 - Image Processor
44 - Creating Photoshop actions

Conclusion

45 - Next steps

Time-Saving Tips Using Photoshop

Authors

Chad Chelius