25 Photoshop tips and tricks every photographer should know

Photoshop is full of tricks and shortcuts. If you ask me, this is one of its beauties, as there’s always something new to discover that will help you speed up your workflow. In this video, Nathaniel Dodson of Tutvid gives you 25 handy Photoshop tips and tricks in only 20 minutes. They’ll help your editing become faster and more efficient, and these are the tricks every photographer should know. Are you familiar with all of these?

In his video, Nathaniel goes through the tricks quite fast just to demonstrate them, which I personally really like. The explanations are straight to the point, with examples that let you see what each of these tricks can do. There are different types of tips and tricks, covering different areas of photo editing. But, they will all help you become faster and more efficient in image editing, and that always comes in handy. Here’s the full list along with the timeline:

1. Bird’s Eye View (00:14)
2. Painting selections (00:36)
3. Sticky (temporary) tools (01:29)
4. Overscrolling (02:10)
5. Blank blend layers (03:00)
6. Opacity hotkeys (03:35)
7. Move selections (05:24)
8. Rubberbanding the Pen tool (05:49)
9. Smoothing for brushes (06:48)
10. Instant image export (07:32)
11. Export multiple layers as an image (08:20)
12. Duplicate anything (08:50)
13. Straighten images with the ruler (09:33)
14. Straighten perspective in seconds (10:01)
15. Fill type, shape, and fill layers (11:43)
16. Merge selected layers to a new layer (12:52)
17. Healing edges (13:48)
18. Color replacement (15:00)
19. Isolate a single layer (16:05)
20. Switching document hotkeys (16:25)
21. Copying layers (16:51)
22. Temporary rotations (17:14)
23. Hidden scrubby sliders (17:56)
24. Gray point eyedropper (18:54)
25. The banana tool (19:47)

How many new Photoshop tricks have you learned from Nathaniel’s video? Or have you already known all of them?

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