![]() This little pop-up menu will then let you adjust the size of the layer’s thumbnail and the thumbnail’s contents. ![]() To make these changes, make sure the layers panel is showing, then click the hamburger menu button for that panel. Speaking of panels, did you know that a number of panels have their own little preferences? Take the layers panel for instance: it features two huge quality of life improvements, but they’re buried under an almost hidden menu option. After saving that action, you now have a one-click process that saves a trip through two menus, a couple of panels, and some downtime. If that’s the case, open a sample image, then start recording yourself converting the profile to RGB, then adjusting the mode to 16-bit, and duplicating the background layer. For instance, you might be working with retouching a batch of images in an unusual color space. If you’re looking for some suggestions, try recording any process you find yourself repeating across a series of images. Not only will this help you get a feel for the panel, but it’ll also prevent the annoying reappearance of those defaults that happens after each restart. In a recent post, I went into more depth about actions, including my favorite action I’ve set up.įor this post, I’d just suggest deleting the defaults and recording a short, simple action. So many of the default actions are irrelevant, yet the overall panel and functionality are so useful once you start adding your own actions. The next tweak I’d suggest is scrapping Photoshop’s default actions and adding at least one of your own to prevent them from being restored. This tradeoff is easier to understand in practice, so I’d suggest giving each a try when brushing on a blank document with a soft brush. The normal brush cursor feels just too inaccurate. When painting with a large, soft brush, I’d rather err on the side of caution and add an extra stroke than have to redo the entire pass thanks to a too-small cursor. You can get a better sense of what you’re actually selecting, instead of trying to guess what’s being covered up by the icon.įor the full-size brush option, I find that I can more accurately gauge the “spill” of a soft brush with this enabled. While the precise option takes a little character out of some of the tools, by replacing the little eyedropper or other tool icon with a simple crosshair, I find the precision really comes in handy. I prefer mine set to a full-size brush tip for painting and a precise option for other cursors in lieu of the little skeuomorphic icons. Still, within the preferences panel, I also make two changes to the cursor options. Both of these modes work well in combination with scroll zooming. My preferred mouse, the G502, has a very well-damped scroll wheel, which can also be toggled to a clickless wheel. If you work with panoramas, retouching, or other precision work on high-resolution images, this is a must-have. Especially when combined with the quick redrawing implementation of GPU-accelerated zoom, it just feels right and easy. To navigate across the image, zooming in and out via a quick flick of the scroll wheel is second nature. Available under Preferences>Tools>Zoom with Scroll Wheel, this is such a simple quality of life change. The first change I have to make is to re-enable zooming with the scroll wheel. Skipping around a panorama is made a lot easier by having quick access to zoom ![]()
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