Tuesday Tutorial: Quick Brush Adjusts in PSE & CS

This one came from the Digital Scrapper and I hope to use it enough to retrain my brain. If I don't use it, boy do I forget it.btw, there are lots of great tutorials on the DS site.

With brushes, it can be a lot of fiddling and I often just use the .png for ease. But there ares shortcut keys in PSE and CS to enlarge/decrease the size and also to adjust the opacity. The shortcut keys are the same. After the shortcut key you drag left or right for size and for opacity you drag up and down. Is that not easy? Oh yeah!

Click HERE to find the original tutorials and get the exact shortcut keys for your version of either software and operating system. Ans if you want some free goodies including a great brush set, try this week's Creative Market's freebies. But each week's items are only good for that week what you see today will be gone by next week. But there will be a new set so keep checking!

Tuesday Tutorial: All those Shortcuts

Do you get the newsletters from various scrapbooking stores? You should you know! Why?

1. They're free
2. They often have coupons or offers for products at their store
3. They often have some great tips or tutorials - right in the newsletter!

This short one comes from a recent newsletter from Digital Scrapper. I love shortcuts in PSE and use some all the time. What would we do without the Undo command...CMD-Z or CTRL-Z for you Windows users. If I say CMD, you use CTRL.  Then there is CMD-S for Save, CMD-O for Open, the old standbys CMD-C for Copy, CMD-V for paste. I only get myself in trouble sometimes when I've been doing a lot of cutting and pasting, and reverse them. That's the time for CMD-Z to undo my own mistake!

Now three step ones I'm not sure I can translate into Windows since it's been a good while since I had to deal with the Gates empire.

I really like this 'quick click' from the Digital Scrapper newsletter because it eliminates a few key strokes when you want to make that background a layer. Why would you want to do that? Good question. So you can edit it. Have you ever tried to edit a background and Adobe just sat there petulantly? That's why.

I hope Digital Scrapper continues including more of these 'quick clicks' because any way we can save our hands and wrists makes sense.