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Move the pallet out of the way

If pallets are invading your workspace, there is a quick way to embed them to the edges of the screen. Simply press and hold the Shift key and double-click the title bar of the palette you want. This will make the pallet stick immediately to the nearest edge of the screen, leaving blank space in the center. Enjoy your space!


Switching between different Preferences windows

This is a not-so-known shortcut that will save you a lot of time. When you open one of the frameworks of Preference Photoshop (General Preferences, Plug-ins & Scratch Disks, Units & Rulers, etc.), simply press Command-N (PC: Ctrl-N) and you’ll receive the next set of preferences in the current context dialogue. To go back to previous set of preferences, just …


Set the tracking to 0

The Tracking tool (the palette Character) defines the interval between your letters. A negative value brings them closer, while a positive moves them apart. If you work a lot with text you will be changing this value constantly, so it will be useful to have a quick way to reset it to zero on your selected text.
This is done simply …


Design lines

If you have a problem designing lines with the tools provides by Photoshop, here is a small trick to help you. Instead of dragging the tool, simply click once to the point where you want to start and then move to where you want to finish the line, press and hold Shift, click and Photoshop will automatically draw a straight …


Reset to default settings in Photoshop

Would you like to restore Photoshop to its original settings that were immediately after installation? You can do this easily by holding down the keys Shift-Option-Control (PC: Shift-Alt-Control) and open Photoshop. You’ll see a dialog box will prompt you to restore the default settings of Photoshop. Now everything is restored and you can start customizing it again!