Adobe Photoshop Tips

Variable Fonts

Fonts with Var next to them means it a variable font, you can now change the text through the Properties panel now

Combine images with text

There’s a really easy way to overlay an image on top of text. Drop an image layer over a type layer then hold down Alt and click the line between the two layers in the Layers Panel to clip the image to the text.

Bird’s eye view

When zoomed in close, hold down H and drag in the image to instantly dart out to full screen then jump back to another area. One of the best Photoshop tips for viewing work!

Easier marquee selections

Hold down Alt to start a selection at the centre point with any Marquee tool, and then hold Space to temporarily move the selection around.

Undo, undo, undo

You probably know that Cmd/Ctrl+Z is Undo, but you may not know Cmd/Ctrl+Alt+Z lets you undo more than one history state.

Improve performance

Go to Edit>Preferences>Performance and change the number of History (it goes to a maximum of 1000). Change it to a lower number as the higher you make it the bigger the effect that this has on performance.

Cycle blend modes

Shift + or – will cycle through different layer Blend Modes, so long as you don’t have a tool that uses Blend Mode options settings.