Sunday, April 8, 2007

Level Correction


Level is one of the important basic adjustment you can use to correct images that

under expose or over expose. To open level, go to.. image>adjustment>level(click), shortcut key ctrl+L (Window). It will open A histogram box where it has a slider below the histogram triangle shape three different color..Black, gray and white. You can use the slider in the middle to adjust the desire exposure level. Most images slightly under expose work better


Keyboard Shortcut


One of the trick in easy finding those commands of photoshop is using shortcut key.

A fast way to open them, the command such us level, saturation, color balance, save and few

Others. These are the most used shortcuts of the photoshop command .

Note: PC use "ctrl" key. While Mac using "command"

Ctrl+ S = Save

Ctrl+Shift+S = Save As

Ctrl+C = Copy

Ctrl+V = Paste

Ctrl+A = Select All

Ctrl+L = Level

Ctrl+B = Color Balance

Ctrl+U =Hue/ Saturation

Ctrl+Alt+I = Image Size

Ctrl+shift+alt+I = File info

These are the single letters access for toolbox icons.

If you hover the cursor on the toolbox icon, name of the icon will

Pop up and the letters in the bracket ( ) is the shortcut letters of the icons.

B= Brush tool

C= Crop tool

S= Clone Stamp tool

V= Move tool

M= Rectangular Marquee tool

L= Polygonal Lasso tool

G= Paint Bucket tool

Z= Zoom tool

T= Text Tool

O= Dodge tool

I= Eye dropper tool

E= Eraser tool

H= Hand tool

Hidden tools on the tool bar.
Click Long on the icon to open hidden icon.