Learning how to use Photoshop all starts with the Pen Tool. In the next 20 tutorials you can learn how to use Photoshop from beginner through to expert in the Pen Tool and develop in Photoshop from a solid base.
Video Tutorial Outline
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Welcome to Pen Tool Photoshop
in this first tutorial we’ll cover getting
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around photoshop
the first shortcut is the f key.
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f will put the photoshop work area into full
screen mode
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If you hold down the space bar, click and
drag, drag the pasteboard around
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Next shortcut is to zoom in and out, if you
press down the command, space and click it
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will zoom in if you hold down the alt or option
key and click it will zoom out
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or you can hold down command and space and
click and drag, drag to the left to zoom out,
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drag to the right to zoom in
Right to zoom in left to zoom out
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Another shortcut is you can just simply press
command plus key or command minus key to zoom
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in and out
You can also press command 0 and it will fill
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the screen
You can also use the navigator palette in
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the top right hand corner
These palettes here are under window and there’s
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an option here for Navigator
With the navigator you can click the little
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triangle to the right to zoom in left to zoom
out and you can drag the red box around
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Control 0 to zoom back out again
If you want to undo something, so if I had
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a brush
and made a few strokes
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if i press command z, it will undo
the next shortcut is if I actually pressed,
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command option z, it will undo in stages
and they’re the basics of getting around
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Photoshop