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Lost Your Cursor? Find It Fast!

 

Photoshop’s cursors can be easy to lose onscreen, especially if you’re working on a big screen or with the crosshair cursor (meaning you have the Caps Lock key active). Well, the next time you’re working on an image, and you say to yourself, “Hey, where in the heck is my cursor?” (but you use a different word in place of “heck”), try this—just hold the Spacebar down for a moment. This temporarily changes your cursor into the Hand tool, whose icon is larger, white, and easy to see. Once it appears, you’ll see right where your cursor is, and you can release the Spacebar.

3 Comments

  1. Drew said on — October 23, 2009 @ 10:57 pm

    Ha.. this trick is so simple but just what I needed.

  2. Greg said on — February 6, 2011 @ 11:17 pm

    Wow. I’ve been wrestling with that problem for YEARS, because I always work using precise cursors, and those crosshairs disappear on me all the time. Thanks!

  3. Lynn said on — February 27, 2011 @ 7:04 pm

    You are my hero! This has been happening for a long time, and usually I have to reboot. Thank you thank you thank you !!!

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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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