PHOTOSHOP SHORTCUT KEYS

PHOTOSHOP SHORTCUTS keys: (In windows)

1. CTRL + Z = UNDO button
2. CTRL + J = Duplicate layer (can also select a portion of a layer with the Marquee tool and use CTRL + J to duplicate only the selected area)
3. CTRL + D = Deselecting the marching Ants.
4. CTRL + U = Bring up Hue/saturation dialog box
5. CTRL + N = New blank file (shortcut to file> New dialog)
6. CTRL + E = merge& flatten to layer below
7. CTRL + O = open(shortcut to file>open dialog);you can also double click in Photoshop outside of nay open documents (in the grey area) to bring up the open dialog
8. CTRL + 0 = Zooms out so entire canvas is visible (example, if you are zoomed in working on a small area of a 12X12 canvas, pressing CTRL +) would zoom out to view the whole 12X12 page in the window
9. CTRL + + or - = Zoom in or out
10. CTRL + Shift + Alt + E = combine all layers into a new layer on top of existing layers (instead of flattening or merging all)
11. CTRL + ALT + G = clip to layer below
12. CTRL + Shift + [or] = move layer to top or bottom
13. CTRL + [or] = move layer up or down one level 
14. Shift + CTRL + N = Create New layer 
15. CTRL + Shift + Backspace = Fill a layer with background color (Tip from becca 1976 : " I use this a lot when customizing my shadows.")

• Tab = hide/show all palettes
• V = Move tool 
• T = text tool 
• B = Brush tool
• M = marquee tool 
• [and] = adjust brush size when using the Brush tool

Silhouettes in a Giant Moon rise, Captured Using a 1200mm Lens

Real photo - no Photoshop required.

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Silhouettes in a Giant Moon-rise, Captured Using a 1200mm Lens?

Earlier this week, photographer Philip Schmidli of Lucerne, Switzerland captured this incredible photograph of a biker’s silhouette in front of a giant moon rising in the horizon.

Schmidli reveals that he has been trying to capture this photograph for four months or so, but complications got in the way of previous attempts. Clouds got in the way of the full moon in January, and bad weather interfered with his attempts in February and March as well.

Finally, during this latest attempt with April’s full moon, the weather cleared up and gave the “green light” for this photo idea.

He first spent hours exploring Google Earth, searching for the perfect location to shoot the image. He needed a hill in the distance that would allow his subject to be framed by the moon rise .The he ended up deciding on this hill.

To have the subject be dwarfed by the size of the moon, he needed a large gap between the camera and the hill. The distance for this shoot ended up being 1.3 kilometers, or 0.8 miles.

Photographs by Philipp Schmidli

How you rate this experimentation? - An amazing picture with Canon 40D

Tintu Thampi and his brother Kukku Thampi likes experimenting the harry potter style and the attached image is part of that initiative! 

They used the Canon 40D, with settings as follows 

Aperture: 7.1, 

ISO : 500, 

Exposure : 1/1667. 

How do you guys rate their creative input? Keep your comments coming and help them in their efforts towards improving their photography....