The Ultimate 100 Photoshop Tricks: 10 Years of PiXimperfect

Pix perfect just turned 10 and instead of me giving you a boring speech, let's get to the good stuff. If you're retouching and you're zooming in and zooming out too much to work on the blemishes and then just moving around to another parts of the subject, consider doing this. Just hold the H key and hold

on with your mouse or your tablet. It gives you a bird's eye view of the entire canvas. And then whenever you let go, it zooms into that particular area. Speaking of zooms, if you're working with a lot of layers and if you want to zoom in or focus on just one element, hold the alt key or the option key and

click on the layer thumbnail of that element and it zooms right in. For example, here I have a shape. I don't know where it is. Hold the alt key or the option key, click on that element and it zooms right in just to that particular shape. A lot of times we use masks to remove things from certain

areas. In this case, let's say you have done this color grading. You only wanted it on the skin. So what do you usually do? You click on the mask button right there. You take the brush with black as the foreground color. We just erase it from the areas that we don't want. To

make it even faster, I recommend holding the alt key or the option key. And then when you click on the mask button, it already creates a negative mask. And then you can select white as the foreground color. By the way, you can always press X to toggle between the foreground and the background colors.

And simply just paint over the skin or the body or wherever you want it. Sometimes when we are working with a tool, we do too much. In this case, let's say we take the patch tool here and we were to remove this wrinkle and just drag it and drop it right there. Now, this is way too much. So, instead