Fix it Fast
You need to remove a small blemish from a portrait quickly.
Use the Spot Healing Brush Tool.
You need to cut out a product on a plain white background.
Use Magic Wand on Background and Inverse selection
(May except other selection tools if its efficient enough
You want to add a headline and adjust the font, size, and spacing.
Use the Type Tool and adjust in the Character Panel.
You want to brighten up a dark image.
Add a Levels or Brightness/Contrast Adjustment Layer.
You want to resize and save a version of your image for Instagram.
Use Export As and set size/resolution.
You accidentally closed the Layers panel and need to bring it back.
Go to Window > Layers.
You want to select just the sky in a landscape photo.
Use Select > Sky.
You’re designing a poster and want to make sure all your title text and icons are perfectly centered on the page.
Use the Move Tool and Align options in the top bar.
The image has a strong yellow color cast from lighting.
Use Color Balance or Photo Filter to correct it.
You need to keep your layered file for future editing.
Save as a .PSD (Photoshop Document).
The photo is slightly crooked and needs straightening.
Use the Crop Tool with the Straighten option.
You just made a selection but you you want to move and transform it without disturbing the pixels
Use Select > Transform Selection
You want to rasterize editable type so it can be distorted.
Right-click the text layer and choose Rasterize Type.
You’re editing a close-up portrait and want to soften uneven skin while keeping the details like pores and hair visible.
Use the Healing Brush Tool or Spot Healing Brush at low opacity for subtle, controlled retouching.
You’re adding a logo to your design, and you want to make sure you can resize it multiple times without losing image quality.
Place the logo as a Smart Object so it retains its original quality during transformations.
You need to fill in a hole in the background after deleting an object.
Use Content-Aware Fill.
You want to make a perfect circular selection around a logo.
Use the Elliptical Marquee Tool while holding Shift.
Bonus * Click the center of the logo and use ALT with Marquee Tool to expand from the center
You want to wrap text around the edge of a circle.
Create a path with the Ellipse Tool, then click the path with the Type Tool.
You want to remove red-eye from a photo.
Use the Red Eye Tool.
You want to brighten the image but still be able to go back and change it later.
Use an Adjustment Layer like Curves, Brightness/contrast or Levels.
You finished editing one photo and want to apply the same brightness, contrast, and color settings to other images without redoing the work from scratch.
Copy and paste adjustment layers onto the other images. or ALT and drag
You want to isolate hair and soft edges in a portrait.
Use the Refine Hair option inside Select and Mask.
You’re building a multi-layer layout and need precise spacing and alignment.
Use guides, Smart Guides, and enable Snap to Grid.
Your image has strong contrast, but you notice that the colors look flat and dull. You want to enhance the color range without oversaturating the image.
Use a Vibrance Adjustment Layer to boost muted colors while protecting already saturated tones.
You need to save your logo with a transparent background for web use.
Save as a .PNG with transparency.