Key Commands
Save
Cmd/Control S
Z
Zoom Tool
Which icon to hide/show layer?
Eyeball Icon
TIP: You can also drag over the eyeball icons to turn them on or drag over the area they appear and the eyeball icons will reappear making the layer visible.
Move Tool (V)
Photo is a bitmap program: eg. Images are made up of individual...
Pixels
Copy
Cmd/Control C
W
Magic Wand
How to NAME/LABEL a layer?
Cuts a file and all its layers to new dimensons:
Crop Tool (C)
Working/layered file FORMAT is...
Photoshop Document (PSD)
Deselect
Cmd/Control D
H
Hand Tool
How to DUPLICATE a layer?
Right click the layer
or
Under the layers pulldown menu Duplicate Layer
Inserts a text layer:
Text Tool (T)
File format/s for emailing, for use in documents or web is...
JPG, PDF, PNG, GIF
Paste
Cmd/Control V
T
Text Tool
How do you change the OPACITY of a layer?
Change the OPACITY percentage
TIP: With the layer selected, hitting a number key on numeric keypad will set the percentage of opacity (0 zero will set the opacity to 100%)
Selects pixels of the same colour:
Magic Wand (W)
PDF is...
Portable Document Format
suitable for emailing
Undo
Cmd/Control Z
E
Eraser Tool
Explain MERGE DOWN
It combines the layer you're on into the one BELOW it so that they become ONE layer
Used to match a colour
Eyedropper Tool (I)
PNG file format
Portable Network Graphic
- produces an image file without a background