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Gestures Bring You Closer to Your Work

 

Photoshop CS4 can detect when you use more than one finger on the trackpad of the newest Apple MacBook laptops. Pinching your fingers together will cause you to zoom out on the active image. Starting with your fingers together and then spreading them apart will zoom in on the image. Dragging with two fingers held close together will scroll around your document as if you had the Hand tool active. Placing two outstretched fingers on the trackpad and twisting them (as if you’re spinning a top) will cause Photoshop to rotate your view of the document. You can also drag left or right with three fingers to move forward or back in a slide show in Bridge.

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  1. David A said on — May 8, 2009 @ 9:52 pm

    While you’ve got to love the technology, I have to wonder how many designers are using a laptop for any substantive work. For showing a client some designs, these features might come in handy.

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Create A Composite Layer

If you have a multilayer composition and you
want to apply an effect to all the layers at once, don’t flatten the layers–use a composite layer instead. Hide the layers you want excluded, and press Shift-Command-Option-E (PC: Shift-Ctrl-Alt-E). A new layer will be created at the top containing a merged copy of all the visible layers.

Another option is to create a new layer at the top of the stack and make it active. Command-click (PC: Ctrl-click) each layer you want to include to make those layers active, as well. Press Option-Command-E (PC: Alt-Ctrl-E).
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