Photoshop Tips: Mastering Photoshop's Interface

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Photoshop Tips: Mastering Photoshop's Interface

If your Photoshop workspace suffers from palette clutter and window overload, it may be that you're not taking advantage of the many shortcuts and time-savers available to you. Here are some tips and tricks you can use to streamline Photoshop.

Written by Steve Broback on September 5, 2003

Categories: Graphics, Graphics Image Editing, Photo Image Editing, How-Tos

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This story is taken from "Secrets of the Photoshop Masters" (Avondale Media).

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Tools, and palettes, and windows -- oh my! If navigating your Photoshop workspace at times seems like pushing through a thick forest crowded with potential perils, then you may want to pause and refresh your knowledge of the many shortcuts available in Photoshop.

True Photoshop masters know the most efficient display modes and keyboard combinations to zip through files and minimize desktop clutter. In this adaptation of material from the DVD "Secrets of the Photoshop Masters," you'll find a crib sheet of some of the techniques the gurus use to streamline working in Photoshop.

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