Photoshop Cheat Sheet

CClub wrote on 2/9/2008, 5:53 PM
I've been trying to learn Photoshop over the past 6 months, and I put together a "cheat sheet" summary in a Word document http://www.refproductions.com/Misc/Photoshop.docHere[/link].

I found that there are many things I do very infrequently, and I needed a reference to quickly guide me through the steps. I'm not sure who it might be useful for; it may be too cryptic for someone very new to Photoshop, and it may be too detailed for some of you who are very accomplished at it.

I mostly use Photoshop for prepping photos for Vegas, so you won't find any text techniques, but you can always use this as a starting point and add your own information. If anyone has additional information (especially a nice summary of prepping text or Lower Thirds for using in Vegas, feel free to email it to me and I may just add it and repost the doc if I have time).

These steps are from my notes from many books, online resources, etc., so I have no idea if there are direct quotes from other authors, etc. If you see something that looks familiar, take it out or reword it; I have no intentions of using someone else's comments. I'm only leaving this up for a week; so if you want it, download it soon.

Edit: Please don't post a link to this file off of the Vegas forum (unless you choose to upload the file somewhere yourself); the file is about 600-700 KB and I don't want mass amounts of downloads using up my bandwidth.

Comments

Malcolm D wrote on 2/9/2008, 6:24 PM
Thank you very much for taking the trouble to post it.
Any help with Photoshop is always usefull.
I find it a very difficult program to learn so I use PhotoImpact when I can but sometimes have no choice but to use Photoshop.
Malcolm
hackazoid wrote on 2/9/2008, 7:41 PM
Wow... 28 pages. More like a "guide" than a "sheet".

Thanks for the effort!
Coursedesign wrote on 2/9/2008, 8:17 PM
Nice work!

Will try to go over it in more detail when I get a chance.

Please take a deep breath and get rid of the "ppi/dpi" discussion for screen resolutions though. In Windows XP and Vista, there are no settings for absolute font or graphic element sizes (this is however being worked on for future versions).

For the moment, pixels x pixels is all that matters, meaning 1000x1000 pixels at 75ppi is the same image as 1000x1000 pixels at 600ppi. The rest is just meta data that don't matter for video.

UlfLaursen wrote on 2/9/2008, 10:21 PM
Very nice - thanks for sharing this.

/Ulf
rique wrote on 2/13/2008, 5:55 AM
Has this been taken down? I get nothing.
CClub wrote on 2/13/2008, 8:42 AM
I was thinking that this posting was done and had taken it down. The re-established link is http://www.refproductions.com/Templates/Photoshop.docHere. [/link]. Sorry 'bout that. I'll keep it up through the weekend.
rique wrote on 2/13/2008, 9:11 AM
Got it. Looks good. Thanks!