Photoshop Productivity Tips & Tricks
summary
Fast-paced, practical checklist of concrete Photoshop moves: use the Layers panel Distribute Spacing icon (or record an Action and put it in Button mode) to get equal spacing; toggle Blend Modes with Shift+Plus/Minus and use Curves clipped to a layer to remove white/black edges; use Black & White + Luminosity to isolate color ranges; put effects on groups only when merged appearance is OK (it can surprise you); convert assets to Smart Objects for Camera Raw edits, Smart Filters and Replace Contents; use Layer Comps inside Smart Objects and batch Actions (50 images with path blur → exported slices) to save hours.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:00Lightroom
- 7:35Blend modes
- 13:50Solid color fill
- 16:45Open files as layers
- 18:26Keyboard shortcuts
- 23:25Layer groups
- 29:48Masks
- 38:30Layer Comps
- 45:13Importing Smart Objects
- 46:58Transform Toggle
- 53:33Multiple Smart Objects
- 55:58Swap Smart Objects
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