Download Our Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts PDF! Below you will find our awesome Photoshop keyboard shortcut PDF made just for you! Using This Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts Guide. Although the pictured keyboard above is a Mac Keyboard, all of these Photoshop keyboard shortcuts will work for Windows as well. Jun 28, 2002 - PhotoShop Shortcuts — the Ultimate Guide. Select the marquee tool, and you can use these commands. Fill only non-transparent pixels. Others (dependent on whether you're using a Mac or a PC) will still be available.
Anti-aliasing smooths the jagged edges of a selection by softening the color transition between edge pixels and background pixels. Since only the edge pixels change, no detail is lost. Anti-aliasing is useful when cutting, copying, and pasting selections to create composite images.
To use anti-aliasing, select a lasso tool, or the Elliptical Marquee or Magic Wand tool, and select Anti-alias in the options bar. To apply anti-aliasing, you must select the option before making the selection.
Once a selection is made, you cannot add anti-aliasing to it. Feathering blurs edges by building a transition boundary between the selection and its surrounding pixels. This blurring can cause some loss of detail at the edge of the selection. You can define feathering for the marquee and lasso tools as you use them, or you can add feathering to an existing selection.
To define a feathered edge for a selection tool, select any of the lasso or marquee tools. Enter a Feather value in the options bar. This value defines the width of the feathered edge and can range from 1 to 250 pixels.
To define a feathered edge for an existing selection, choose Select Modify Feather. Enter a value for the Feather Radius, and click OK. Select the Lasso tool. Drag around the image tracing the shape as accurately as possible.
Do not release the mouse button. Press the Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) key, and then release the mouse button so that the lasso pointer changes to the polygonal lasso shape. Do not release the Alt or Option key. Begin clicking along the image to place anchor points, following the contours of the shape. Be sure to hold down the Alt or Option key throughout this process.
Hold down the mouse button as you release the Alt or Option key. The pointer again appears as the lasso icon. Click the starting point of the selection, and then release Alt or Option. The image is now entirely selected.
With the Move tool selected, press Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) as you position the pointer inside the object selection. The pointer changes, displaying the usual black arrow and an additional white arrow, which indicates that a duplicate will be made when you move the selection.
Continue holding down the Alt or Option key as you drag a duplicate of the image to another part of the canvas. Release the mouse button and the Alt or Option key. Pressing the Shift key as you move a selection constrains the movement horizontally or vertically in 45-degree increments. The Healing Brush, Spot Healing Brush, Patch tool, and Clone Stamp tools, as well as content-aware fill, let you replace unwanted portions of an image with other areas of the image.
The Clone Stamp tool copies the source area exactly; the Healing Brush and Spot Healing Brush tools blend the area with the surrounding pixels. The Spot Healing Brush tool doesn't require a source area at all; it 'heals' areas to match the surrounding pixels. The Patch tool in Content-Aware mode, and content-aware fill replace a selection with content that matches the surrounding area.