A stupid-I-didn’t-know Photoshop Keyboard Shortcut

Thanks to co-worker, Will, I now can spare myself some of the pain of dealing with pulling elements out of a 1GB+ PSD.

Normally, I would have to isolate a button/photo/whatever in a design screen and flatten/merge layers just so that I could crop it without taking 5 minutes. But, then I need to get some more objects in the design. So, undo a few times or revert to the Open state (waiting…) and repeat (more waiting…).

But now, all I have to do is make my marquee or selection on the object and as long as there aren’t any funky “designery-things” I can simply Cmd+Shift+C and it copies everything visible in that selection. If the object has straight edges, just open a new document, paste and Save for Web in all it’s glory. If it has some roundedness, you might be out of luck; unless it doesn’t need to have a perfect alpha edge, then just matte and GIF it.

Hope this helps someone besides me. BTW, I’m on a Mac, so I’d imagine just replace the Cmd with Ctrl for the PC users.

A stupid-I-didn’t-know Photoshop Keyboard Shortcut

Thanks to co-worker, Will, I now can spare myself some of the pain of dealing with pulling elements out of a 1GB+ PSD.

Normally, I would have to isolate a button/photo/whatever in a design screen and flatten/merge layers just so that I could crop it without taking 5 minutes. But, then I need to get some more objects in the design. So, undo a few times or revert to the Open state (waiting…) and repeat (more waiting…).

But now, all I have to do is make my marquee or selection on the object and as long as there aren’t any funky “designery-things” I can simply Cmd+Shift+C and it copies everything visible in that selection. If the object has straight edges, just open a new document, paste and Save for Web in all it’s glory. If it has some roundedness, you might be out of luck; unless it doesn’t need to have a perfect alpha edge, then just matte and GIF it.

Hope this helps someone besides me. BTW, I’m on a Mac, so I’d imagine just replace the Cmd with Ctrl for the PC users.

Posted 1 year ago & Filed under keyboard shortcuts, photoshop, development, 4 notes

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