Quick Tip #10 – Opacity In Photoshop

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) Select your layer

2) With the layer selected, push a number from 1-9

1 being 10% abd 9 being 90%

There you have it!

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13 Responses to “Quick Tip #10 – Opacity In Photoshop”

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

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

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