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Download Quick Tip #10 – Opacity in Photoshop
In this quicktip we cover a nice keyboard shortcut for opacity in Photoshop.
For those of you that don’t want to watch all 48 seconds of the video – click read more for the Lo-Fi version!
1 being 10% abd 9 being 90%
There you have it!
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Paul Davis says:
I’ve done that by accident before, didn’t know what I pressed though, so thanks!
January 15th, 2009 at 6:53 am
Seth Stevenson says:
I didn’t know that, thanks for the tip!
January 15th, 2009 at 7:29 am
Aaron Irizarry says:
That one is great i didn’t know that. I am gonna try it out today.
thanks
Aaron I
January 15th, 2009 at 8:01 am
murrydan says:
That is a great tip to share with everyone, I have read several photoshop books and I am actually preparing for the Adobe Certified Professional Exam and I have never seen that tip. Thanks.
January 15th, 2009 at 8:02 am
David Leininger says:
Great post. Really nice to know, I hadn’t heard that one yet. One thing my buddy and I did find out is, this tip doesn’t work with certain tools active.
brush tool
clone tool
history brush tool
eraser tool
gradient / Paint bucket tool
the burn / burn / sponge tool
January 15th, 2009 at 8:17 am
Michael Haywood says:
David Leininger got it right! It doesn’t change the LAYER opacity when you use those specific tools that he listed. I just found out that it actually changes the opacity of each specific brush. For example, if you have the brush tool active and hit a number 1-9, it will change the opacity of the brush, not the layer!
January 15th, 2009 at 10:18 am
Paul Stevens says:
awesome stuff niki, always looking forward to your quick tips.
January 15th, 2009 at 1:03 pm
Jonathan Patterson says:
Nice. It’s always fun to stumble onto something that is extremely useful. I’m sure there are a multitude of other little tricks that are not widely known.
January 15th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
joyoge designers' bookmark says:
thank you for helpful tips..
January 15th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
liz says:
very cool. I had to hold down shift w/ the layer selected for it to work – but then also discovered i could hold shift and + or – to change through the various transparency options! nice.
January 15th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
charles says:
At least for the brush or gradient tool, you can also type in a 2 digit opacity.
With brush selected, simply pressing ’2′ will set it at 20%. If you type in 2-4 quickly enough, it will be set ant 24% opacity.
I’d imagine it might work like that for layers too.
January 16th, 2009 at 1:05 am
Nikki - Logo Design Guru says:
As always, thanks for the great tips. They are always very helpful.
January 16th, 2009 at 12:25 pm