A visual and easy to use App that helps you find all the hidden shortcuts to make Photoshop Faster and easier to use. It currently supports Photoshop, Lightroom and Blender in Windows, OS X and Linux.
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How does it work
The keyboard layout is able to be changed to your operating system and usually opens to the current one, you then select the program and version you have. These are all above the keyboard. Below is the search bar if you are looking for a specific command. It then tells you what keys will help you out. But it gets better: press another key, like Shift or Space, and the display changes to tell you what each key will now do. It's all color-coded, too, so you know which key brings about what change.
This week there is no real class because of the Monday holiday but I will expand on using the cloning tool and its other uses.
The exercise or challenge is to repair this or any of your own damaged photos. The primary tool you will be using is the clone tool. You might also use color correction, Transform, and even the crop tool. It is up to you. Have fun with it and don't worry if you make mistakes.
Helpful tips
- NEVER SAVE OVER THE ORIGINAL make a save as or copy
- When using the clone tool be aware of where you are cloning from look for the +
- For small areas it is fine to re-sample (alt+click) areas to get the right colors
- CTRL+ALT+Z is your friend use all three buttons at the same time to fix any new mistakes.
When you have missing parts of a picture or just have a
imperfection there are many tools to fix a photo. The Clone tool is
your best friend. It copies ans pastes parts of pictures all in one
click, another magic brush. Others are more self explanatory like the
red eye tool.
The
red eye tool is a single click with the tool and it auto corrects the
eye and it even works on blue eyes, Animals are a tad harder because
they don't get red eye they get yellow or green eye, and it reflects.
For animals you usually need to copy and paste an eye or draw one in. Red eye tool red eye without tool Dog eyes
Clone
tool As mentioned before the clone tool is very useful for scratches
and missing pieces as long as you have something to replace that part
with. Missing arms you can copy from the other arm or a different
picture. Other missing parts that you don't have a reference you may
have to draw in or fill with a shadow. Video Reading Below is the exercise.
Since
we are talking about taking things away we can also add items as well.
Using the same technique as the dog eye you can paint items in or using
clone or copy and paste, you can also ad type to add some fun to the
image as well. Remember always have a extra copy in case you need a
picture without words you never know when you just want the origional. Video Reading
