1. When working on a colour image, you can use the Paint Brush tool to selectively "paint away" colour to black and white. It can make one portion of your image really stand out. In the Paint Brush Options palette, change the blend mode to Colour, and paint away the colour
2. Press the Shift to add more to the selection, or press the Alt to take away from the selection when using your magic wand tool.
3. If you have a lot of images to display, use Photoshop's image gallery to build a webpage of images that are thumb nailed for you. FILE - Automate - Web Images Gallery
4. To automatically select the entire text layer, double click on the 'T' on a Type layer in the Layers Palette.
There are at least two ways to switch between the various measurement units that Photoshop displays.
5. One is to change them in your Preferences by going to the Photoshop menu under Preferences and choosing Units & Rulers (in Photoshop 7 under Mac OS 9, Preferences is found under the Edit menu). From here you can change the ruler units and click OK.
6. Option two is to open the Info Palette (go to the Window menu and choose Info) and click on the small triangle next to the cross in the lower left quadrant. This will bring up a menu that will permit you to change units.
7. To cycle through different screen modes, simply press the F key
8. You can select only the pixels and not the transparency area of the layer by holding the Cmd/Ctrl key and clicking the mouse on that layer in the Layers palette.
9. If you use one particular style more than others, you can save it for easier access as a style in your styles palette. In the Blending Options, just under OK and Cancel you'll see 'Save Style'. Name your style and save it to find this new style in the Styles palette. Note: the style must be in its own layer.
10) Sometimes when you combine multiple images, there will be a bit of fringe around the edges of the composite images. To hide this, follow steps Layers - Matting - . From the dialogue box, choose the default setting; it that doesn't work, undo it, and try De fringe again at a setting of 2.
11. If you have too many layers, simply select the right layer by using the move tool ( V ) Right click the mouse over the layer and a drop down list will come up.
On the other hand, you can allocate your layers into layer sets. On the bottom of your layers palette, click the 'create new layers set' (looks like a folder), name the new layer set, and just drag the layers you like in that set. Highlight the set right click and choose copy to copy your sets with ease.
12. If you want to toggle between Photoshop and Image Ready, press Shift-Command-M (Mac)/ Shift-Control-M (PC).
13. Press Shift-Command-Option-S (Mac)/ Shift-Control-Alt-S (PC) to access the Save for Web dialogue rapidly,
14. Press Cmd/Ctrl J to duplicate your current layer.
15) To bring up the Extract dialogue box, press Command-Option-X (Mac)/ Control-Alt-X (PC). Within the Extract dialogue box, switch to the Extract Edge Highlighter tool by pressing the letter "b.", the Fill tool by pressing the letter "k.", and change the Edge Highlighter's brush size by holding the "]" key to make it larger and the "[" to make it smaller.
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