07-07-2015, 05:19 AM
Three more for today:
- You can use other tools without switching out of the tool your currently using. As it works with R, for the rotate tool, if you hold the R key, rotate the canvas and then let go of the R key, you will automatically be back at the tool you're previously using, like the brush. This also works for all other tools with a shortcut attached, so, the eraser, smudge, dodge, burn... it's handy when you get used to it.
- If you alt+click the eye on a layer on the layer palette, you can toggle between only having this layer visibile or having whatever you had before. Very handy to quickly see what you have on that layer (and if you have painted on the wrong one).
A warning: if you manually switch on or off any other layer, the toggling back ability will be lost.
- About layer groupings:
If you have a stack of grouped layers, the whole thing counts a flat image that is subject to the mode of the first layer ("parent" layer) in the pile.
Say you're making an adjustment in a multiply layer, and you want to test some brushstrokes (or you'd like to erase them). If you do another multiply layer, you will darken the effect and mess up the colors; If you just group them, and have the first layer set to multiply, you can add as many layers and test everything without messing the original layers; The whole thing would just be multiplied once.
![[Image: layerstack.jpg]](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1614971/layerstack.jpg)
- You can use other tools without switching out of the tool your currently using. As it works with R, for the rotate tool, if you hold the R key, rotate the canvas and then let go of the R key, you will automatically be back at the tool you're previously using, like the brush. This also works for all other tools with a shortcut attached, so, the eraser, smudge, dodge, burn... it's handy when you get used to it.
- If you alt+click the eye on a layer on the layer palette, you can toggle between only having this layer visibile or having whatever you had before. Very handy to quickly see what you have on that layer (and if you have painted on the wrong one).
A warning: if you manually switch on or off any other layer, the toggling back ability will be lost.
- About layer groupings:
If you have a stack of grouped layers, the whole thing counts a flat image that is subject to the mode of the first layer ("parent" layer) in the pile.
Say you're making an adjustment in a multiply layer, and you want to test some brushstrokes (or you'd like to erase them). If you do another multiply layer, you will darken the effect and mess up the colors; If you just group them, and have the first layer set to multiply, you can add as many layers and test everything without messing the original layers; The whole thing would just be multiplied once.