I’ve recently started cleaning up my Mac. One thing that I did was to clear out a bunch of my old backgrounds that cycled quickly by on my desktop. I replaced them with some simple black and white photos like this:
It was an easy change that made a pretty great impact. The new images are peaceful, clean and quiet. I recommend trying this out on your own computer; here’s a quick tutorial on how to easily create your own stunning desktop. Read More
so really, there are almost millions of photoshop shortcuts out there (no, really – take a look at all of these). but it seems you only learn new ones when you really start doing one task over and over and think, “there’s gotta be a faster way to do this.&quo{readmore}t;
well, one great shortcut i’ve found that you won’t stumble upon very easily deals with quickly running through the blending modes for a layer.
first, make sure you have the move tool (v) selected.
in your layers palette, click on the layer you want to change blending modes for.
now press (shift) plus (+) or (-) on your keyboard.
viola! you can quickly scan through the blending modes and see what effect each one has on your layer!