To unselect all regions use the marquee, ellipse or lasso tool and simply click once anywhere in the window. You can check under the "Select" menu whether you have a region active or not. Certainly by that time you may come to see the light about this command. Once you get into complex selection regions by manipulating the selection in its own channel you can get such complex marqueed regions that a mere redraw can take close to a second. The effect of the fuzziness setting can reach to the edges and is much easier to judge without. Also before you use the Paste controls I recommend strongly you turn off the ants. pasting floating text into a particular position is a hell of a lot easier, faster and then gives you the actual final appearance if you first use command-h. In fine detail work it is equally useful to see things as they will actually look. For example if you use Levels or Brightness you will be able to judge whether you have identical shades before and after if the edges are hidden. Not only can it speed up operations, it's quite often mandatory to see the inside and outside area side by side. Make it a habit to delete the "marching ants" marquee with the Hide Edges command (`command-h'). Use a small size and zoomed window for detail work. After every step evaluate if its a keeper or use the UNDO (command-z) immediately. Set it to 33% opacity for finer control and go back and forth several times. Example use: create clean anti-aliased edges by letting the blur or smudge tool travel along the edge (use several smaller segments in curves). Keep the shift key down to work in ongoing vector mode. Wherever you now click with the brush, pencil, airbrush, blur / sharpener, smudge or eraser will become the endpoint and the tool will follow that path. Click at the starting point with any tool or even the marquee, then hold the shift key down. #2 Tool VectorsĪll the tools can be forced to follow straight vector paths. Double click on the magnifier to reset to 1:1 The maximum magnification is 16:1 Notice that the Magnifier tool will keep the window dimensions and zoom within those boundaries, whereas the Zoom In/Out function under "Window" (shortcut Command"-" and Command "=" (referred to as Command "-" and "+" but that implies the additional shift key, which you can skip.) will actually change the window dimensions as well as the zoom status.
On release the current window will be maximized and that section shown magnified to fit. With the magnifier selected, click-and-drag will marquee a rectangle.
Nor does it build to the ultimate punchline.sorry Dave. There is no real 1 through 10 order of importance.
Adobe photoshop 6.0 windows 7 manual#
You may have read these things somewhere in the manual the first time you leafed through it, but for some reason it just didn't stick.