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How to move layers without touching them

Okay, the title is slightly misleading ..
You can not move layers without touching them, but you can move them from the layers palette without clicking on them using the following keyboard shortcuts:
To move a layer down to the layers palette, press: Command-left bracket (PC: Ctrl-left bracket)
To move a layer to the palette of layers, press: Command-right bracket (PC: Ctrl-right bracket)
Now, if …


Shortcuts for Zoom

To go directly to view 100% of your image, then double click the Zool tool.
To adjust the image directly to the screen size, double-click the Hand tool.
Other useful Shortcuts for zooming:
[Ctrl + =] - zoom in
[Ctrl + -] - zoom out
[Ctrl + 0] - fit to window


Select the outline of your text

There are two ways for selecting the outline of your text. The first is to use ctrl-click (PC: Ctrl-click) on the layer palette to Type Layers. The second way is to go to Select menu and select Load. When the dialog box opens, click OK and create a selection around your text.


Formatting symbols in Photoshop

To adjust the distance between the character of the baseline (as must be done on commercial symbols), highlight the character you want to format and press Shift-Option-up arrow (PC: Shift-Alt-up arrow) to move the character above the baseline. Use the same shortcut, but the down arrow key to move the text below the baseline (for cases such as H2O, etc).


Display the dialog box for last filter used

If you apply a filter and want to apply it again with different parameters, there is a keyboard shortcut to do just that. You can display a dialog box containing the last filter you ran with the settings used by pressing Option-Command-F (PC: Alt-Control-F). If you want to re-apply the last filter you used with exactly the same settings, simply …