You won’t notice the lack of quality and you’ll greatly reduce the file size and the CPU power required to process your Photoshop file. Top tip: If your client provides you with a folder of uncompressed TIFFs or very high-quality JPG images to use in your design, just batch process the whole lot down to about 2000 pixels wide. (Layer > Smart Objects > Convert to Smart Object) This way you can enlarge or reduce your image size as often as required because a Smart Object will always reference its original state each time it is resampled.

I always rasterise images, reduce their size (but always to a size that is slightly larger than I need) and then convert them into Smart Objects by hitting F2. Once your project contains a number of these full-size original images, it can slow down even the fastest of PC’s. When you drag an image onto the canvas it becomes a Smart Object by default, but quite often the original image will be many times larger than it would need to be for the web or screen. F2 – Convert to Smart ObjectThis is really handy if you want to have the freedom to resize a raster object (generally a photo) larger and smaller without it losing its quality.F7 – Flip verticalThe other best shortcut ever!.F6 – Flip horizontalThe best shortcut ever and pretty self-explanatory!.(Edit > Transform > Rotate 90° Clockwise) You don’t even need to make ones that rotate right or left because you can just keep pressing F5 until your object is the right way around. F5 – Rotate 90°This is an obvious one and very useful.I use a PC but most of these tips should also apply to Macs, where you use Command instead of Ctrl. Obviously, if you want to keep the default shortcut, you’ll need to choose another key combination. Click ‘Accept’ to override any existing functions. To make your own, go to Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts. These are the key combinations I’ve chosen to use for my custom shortcuts. Luckily, Photoshop lets you change the defaults and even save them for future use. Photoshop has an array of useful default shortcuts, but there are a few obvious ones that were initially missing. They speed up your workflow, make repetitive tasks more bearable and they’re a great way to impress your friends!Īt Coast, Adobe XD and Sketch are now our web design tools of choice, but Photoshop still gets plenty of use.

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