From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
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The single-pixel tools (plus tool tricks) - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
The single-pixel tools (plus tool tricks)
In this exercise I'll show you a couple of tricks for switching between tools from the keyboard. I'll also show you how to select single pixel rows and columns inside an image. I've gone ahead and restored the saved version of Red-eyed tree frog.psd. Now, notice if I click and hold on the Marquee tool here, I can see that in total I have four different tools to choose from, and the first two have a keyboard shortcut of M, which means that I should be able to switch back and forth between them by pressing the M key. However, by default you have to press Shift+M instead. Now, I'm not crazy about that convention, and you can change it by adjusting a Preference setting. I'm going to assume that you have changed this Preference setting over the course of the many future exercises. So here's how it works. Press Ctrl+K or Command+K on the Mac in order to bring up the Preferences dialog box, and then notice this check box, Use Shift Key for tool Switch, go ahead and turn it off, if you will…
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The marquee tools6m 31s
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The single-pixel tools (plus tool tricks)6m 48s
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Turning a destructive edit into a layer5m 34s
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Making shapes of specific sizes7m 7s
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The lasso tools5m 49s
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Working with the Magnetic Lasso tool7m 19s
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The Quick Selection tool8m 13s
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Combining Quick Selection and Smudge4m 52s
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The Magic Wand and the Tolerance value6m 55s
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Contiguous and Anti-aliased selections6m 58s
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Making a good selection with the Magic Wand6m 34s
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Selecting and replacing a background6m 55s
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Resolving edges with layer effects7m 52s
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Adding lines of brilliant gold type7m 28s
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The seven selection soldiers52s
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