Table of Contents
1 Go Faster 7
Zooming in and out 8
Content-Aware crop 9
Perspective crop 10
Reset Preference Settings 12
Controlling brushes 14
Pixel Grid 16
Recent Files panel 17
Notes 18
New Guide - precision placement 19
New Guide Layout - precision grids 20
Artboard documents 22
Create and manage Artboards 24
Custom keyboard shortcuts 28
Auto-Select 31
2 Selections 33
Selections - adding and subtracting 34
Fill with Foreground/Background color 37
Save and load selections 38
Inverse selection 42
Feathering selections 43
Feathering using mask properties 44
Paths to selections 47
Replace Color command 48
Recolor with Brush and Blend mode 50
3 Layers and Masks 51
Isolate layers 52
Layer shortcuts 54
Filter layers 58
Select and mask - Levels adjustment layer 60
Mask and montage 64
Toucan tutorial - Layer Masks 68
Vector masks 70
4 Layer Blend Modes 73
Layer Blend modes 74
Whiten eyes 76
Whiten teeth 78
Enhance skies 80
Recolor eyes 84
Experiment (quickly) with Blend modes 88
5 Type 89
Type Size shortcuts 90
Scale type visually 91
Tracking and Kerning 92
Baseline Shift 93
Leading 94
Paragraph Styles 96
Character Styles 100
Get your Glyphs out 102
Wood and stone carving 104
Neon type 107
Type on circles logo 110
6 Transform, Reflect, Shadow and Light 113
Perspective transformations 114
Create a reflection 118
Reflect, transform, blend and mask 120
Transform Again and Copy 123
Beams of light 126
Casting shadows 128
The Create Layer command 130
Generating scripted patterns 134
7 Path Power 137
Paths and shape layers 138
Drawing smooth curves 140
Drawing straight line segments 143
Selecting paths and points 144
Mixed straight and curve segments 146
Smooth points to corner points 148
The Convert Point tool 150
Load All Shapes 154
8 Cloud Power 155
Creative Cloud (CC) Libraries 156
Working with graphics in Libraries 160
New Library from Document 162
Collaborating with Libraries 164
Sharing links to Libraries 166
Typekit 167
Managing Typekit fonts 169
Behance it 170
9 Actions and Output 171
Action stations 172
Polaroid effect 174
Adding commands to an action 177
Playing and controlling actions 178
Insert a Stop 180
Quick Export As 182
Export As 186
Index 189