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Increasing Brush Sizes

 

Pretty much all applications that use a brush can be regulated using the Bracket keys. The Left Bracket ( [ ) key decreases the brush size, while the Right Bracket ( ] ) key increases its size. If you press-and-hold the Shift key, it increases the size by a larger amount.

2 Comments

  1. Paul Sanduleac said on — November 27, 2009 @ 11:27 am

    Thanks a lot. Really useful.

  2. WinGer said on — November 27, 2009 @ 3:05 pm

    I’ve always loved to try this hotkey but with spanish keyboard doesn’t work. Does anyone know how to do it in a spanish keyboard configuration?

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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.

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