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Using opacity shortcuts in Photoshop

Using opacity shortcuts in Photoshop

From the course: Creative Quick Tips

Using opacity shortcuts in Photoshop

Hey everybody. Welcome back to another installment of Creative Quick Tips. My name is Justin Sealy, and in this video, I'm going to be continuing my look at ways to automate the Photoshop workflow, by talking a little bit about how to change layer opacity by just using your keyboard. This is something many people know about, but some people don't, and when I tell it to' em, they're like, oh wow, I didn't know that you could actually do that. So, traditionally when you want to change layer opacity, you're over here in the layers panel. And, I'll bring this out so you can see it. And you're just dialing in the opacity, either by using the scrubby slider, like this, or by just entering in a value manually, and then hitting enter, and that can be quite cumbersome, when you're wanting to change a layer opacity very quickly. And so, there's actually keyboard shortcuts associated with that, and watch, I can just do it right here to turn that back to 100%. And all I did was press the number…

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