Photoshop Skills Collection (121-138)

121. When you delete a layer directly, you can hold down the Alt key and move the cursor to the trash can on the layer control panel.

122. After pressing the Ctrl key, your mobile tool has automatic selection function. At this point, you just click on an object on a layer, then Photoshop will automatically switch to the layer of that object; but when If you let go of the Ctrl key, your mobile tool will not have the function of automatic selection, so it is easy to prevent mis-selection.

123. You cannot drag multiple layers to another document at the same time in the layer panel (even if they are linked) - this will only move the selected layer.

124. The quickest way to organize multiple layers into a group is to link them first and then select the Group Link Layer command (Ctrl+G). When you want to move multiple layers between different documents, you can use the mobile tool to drag multiple layers simultaneously between documents. Using this technique can also be used to merge (Ctrl+E) multiple visible layers (because "with the previous layer grouping command" when the current layer has links with other layers will become "Grouping Link Layer" command).

125. Press and hold the Alt key in the layer panel to group them together by clicking on them. This is useful when some layers are linked and you just want to group some of them. Because the marshalling command (Ctrl+G) is linked to other layers in the current layer, it is converted to a marshalling link layer command (Ctrl+G).

126. Double-click the layer with the “T” in the Layer Control panel to edit the text again.

127. Hold down Alt and click on the desired layer front eye icon to hide/reveal all other layers.

128. Alt-click the brush icon in front of the current layer to unlink it from all other layers.

129. To clear all layer effects on a layer, hold down the Alt key and double-click the layer effect icon on that layer.

130. To turn off one of the effects, hold down the Alt key and select its name in the Layers → Layer Styles submenu; or you can unmark its “Apply” in the Layer Effects dialog box.

131. Here's a time-saving way to add an adjustment layer: Just hold down Ctrl and click the "Create new layer" icon (at the bottom of the layer panel) to select the type of adjustment layer you want to add!

132. In addition to editing the layer mask in the Channels panel, press Alt to click the icon on the mask on the mask to open it; hold down the Shift key and click the mask icon to close/open the mask (a red *X is displayed Mask). Hold down Alt+Shift and click on the layer mask to display it in ruby ​​(50% red). Hold down the Ctrl key and click on the mask icon to load its transparent selection.

133. The mask added by the "Add layer mask" icon (at the bottom of the layer panel) on the layer panel displays all the contents of the current selection by default; hold down the Alt key "add layer mask" icon to add The mask hides the current selection.

134. When the current tool is a move tool (or hold down the Ctrl key at any time), right-click on the canvas to open the list of all layers at the current point (from top to bottom): Select the name of the layer from the list to make it the current layer .

135. Hold down the Alt key and right-click to automatically select the layer on the current point, or open the Auto Select Layer option in the Move Tool Options panel.

136. Alt+Shift+Right click to switch the current layer to the top layer.

137. When we need multi-layer selection, we can use the selection tool to select the area in the file, draw a selection of virtual boxes; then hold down the "Alt" button, when the cursor becomes a lower right corner with a small "-" When the "+" sign (which means to reduce the selected area or pixels), pull the second box inside the first box; then hold down the "Shift" key, when the cursor becomes a lower right corner with a small When the "+" sign is "+", the third box is drawn in the second box so that the two can be used in turn to make multiple selections. Irregular objects can also be selected in this way.

138. Press the Shift+“+” keys (forward) and Shift+“-” keys (backwards) to switch between the composition modes of the various layers. We can also press Alt + Shift + "a character" to quickly switch the composition mode.

N = Normal
I = Dissolve
M = Multiply
S = Screen
O = Overlay
F = Soft Light
H = Hard Light
D = Color Dodge
B = Color Burn K = Darken
G = Lighten
E = Difference
X = Exclusion
U = Hue
T = Saturation C = Color
Y = Luminosity Q = Behind (Behind 1)
L = threshold (Threshold 2)
R = Clear (Clear 3)
W = Shadows (Shadows 4)
V = Midtones 4 (Midtones 4)
Z = Highlights 4