Cool Photoshop Tips

With Adobe Photoshop, you can make your photographs look professional and become a freelance photographer or you can even become a photography doctor, where you edit and enhance photographs.
However, before you start dreaming of making money out of Adobe Photoshop, you need to remember that there are still quite a lot of things that you need to learn about Adobe Photoshop. As a beginner, here are some tricks that will make work a lot more fun for you and also a lot easier.
The first trick is by turning any color in to the foreground color. To do this, you need to press I to activate the eyedropper tool. Then, click on the color on the image. This will automatically turn that color in to the foreground color. To turn that in to the background color, all you need to do is press the ALT key and click on the color in the image.
Changing the size of the brush is also an essential part of Photoshop. It is a fact that changing the brush size will require you stop working, click on the brush tip size and reduce or increase the size according to your preferences. This is time consuming. One trick is to simply press the right bracket key “]” to increase the size of the brush tip and the left bracket key “[” to decrease it. That’s how simple it is.
Also, by knowing how to activate the move tool with your keyboard can save you a lot of time. To do this, all you need to do is press letter “V” on your keyboard. You can also use the keyboard arrow keys to push the layer or the selection by 1 pixel increments. To speed things up, just press the shift key along with the arrow key to nudge in 10 pixel increments. This Adobe Photoshop trick will help you save a lot of time when working with Photoshop especially when you are working with layers.
Pressing the TAB button on your keyboard will hide all your palettes. Pressing TAB again will bring them back. Pressing shift and TAB will hide everything except the toolbar. This is one trick that will make working with Photoshop a lot more convenient.
To zoom in and out, you will usually click on the tool and click the mouse. To make it easier, the keyboard shortcut trick is to press CTRL and the plus sign on the keyboard to zoom in and CTRL and the minus sign to zoom out.
Using the smudge tool, you can easily remove skin imperfections, such as pimples, scars, and even wrinkles. So, if someone wants to look younger, you can easily erase their wrinkles and make them look 10 years younger. Oily skin is another problem that a lot of people have when they have their picture taken. With Adobe Photoshop, the ugly shine on the face will instantly disappear with just a few clicks of the mouse. Skin tone can also be changed with Adobe Photoshop. You can easily make someone look like they just got a tan from the beach or you can remove the sunburn and make them look a little lighter.
We all know that group or individual photos are ruined with that photographic phenomenon that we call as the red eye. This is basically caused by light reflecting back from the pupil of the subjects. Usually, this is caused by the flash in the camera. Although some digital cameras today now has flash settings that claims to conquer the red eye occurrence, there is really no 100 percent guarantee to remove it. Adobe Photoshop can help you with this problem as it will be able to give you the red eye tool. This tool will help you eliminate the appearance of the red eye in a digital photo. In fact, you can even remove the red eyes even those of your pet car or dog.

There are quite a lot more shortcuts and tricks in Adobe Photoshop. These are just some of the basic tricks that will make working with Photoshop a lot easier. By mastering the tricks in Photoshop, you will see that working with the software will be a lot faster and a lot more convenient.