Shortcut Keys
Shortcut for New?
Ctrl + N
This tool fills similarly colored areas or selections with the foreground color. You can also buy these at Lowe’s by the gallon.
Paint Bucket
This tool trims an image deleting or hiding the rest of the image. When using it the “Rule of Thirds” Grid shows up.
Crop Tool
The ___ tool is used to zoom in and out on an image [Navigate Documents]
Zoom
This tool allows you to magnify or reduce the view of the image. It is represented by a magnifying glass.
Zoom Tool
Shortcut for Copy?
Ctrl + C
This tool removes pixels and shows what is on the layer below the removed pixels. If nothing is below it will show the transparent background. These are also often found on pencils.
Eraser Tool
This tool allows you to re-position an object in a layer. It is the very first tool.
Move Tool
Keyboard shortcuts can be managed from the ___ menu [Customize Keyboard]
Edit
This is the preferred resolution in pixels for print images.
300 dpi
Shortcut for Curves?
Ctrl + M
This tool allows you to create blends of color by straight-line, radial, angle, reflected, and diamond options.
Gradient Tool
These tools allow you to select rectangular or circular areas of a layer and are shown by a dotted line.
Marquee Tools
The ___ will appear in the RGB color model when green and blue overlap. [Understanding RGB and CMYK]
Cyan
This tool allows you to create and edit vector-based text. It creates a new layer automatically.
Type Tool
Shortcut for Auto Color?
Shift + Ctrl + B
The front box in the Color Selecting Box that shows the color white when you start a new Photoshop project.
Foreground Color
This tool selects similarly colored areas to make selections with just one click. Harry Potter probably has this tool.
Magic Wand Tool
In Photoshop CC the default ___ Colors keyboard shortcut is Cmd + Y [Render Intent and Soft Proofing]
Proof
These are like stacked sheets of paper that you can see through and the basic building up of an image in Photoshop.
layers
Shortcut for Lock Guides
Alt + Ctrl + Semicolon
This tool allows you to define the foreground and/or background color by a colored pixel in the image. You also use this if you have Pink Eye.
Eyedropper/Color Sampler Tool
This tool is one of three options that allow you to make a selection. This tool makes selections by detecting edges and automatically connecting to those edges.
Magnetic Lasso Tool
The ___ specialty format is used in the medical industry. [Video Raster and Specialty Formats]
DICOM
This layer by default is locked.
background layer