Intro to Tutorial Tuesday - Some Basics

So, im pretty excited about finally getting around to doing tutorial tuesdays. Finally! I learned everything I know (plus some college) thanks to playing. I got a 100% in all my courses for photoshop because I had already been "playing" for quite some time. But, you know it's required for the degree and all that fun stuff. And I got pretty certificates that will never get framed from it too! 

Just to let you know, I won't be doing any tutorials in Lightroom or Elements. But, if you have questions in those programs feel free to ask! 

I will try to not get to crazy with them either. Note, I said try! :)

Sometimes when I have been editing a while my ADD brain needs a break. So I pull up a tutorial, or I just get some random idea and start to play around with it. Some of my best work comes from that! So, test yourself! See what you can do! 

Some of the techniques can be pretty awesome and all of them can be used elsewhere! I find myself sometimes doing one where the person has 5 million steps to do one thing and I go "umm, you could just do this and make it 10 times easier." and then I say "holy crap I learned something!" lol

Anyhow! Todays tutorial is just getting back to some basics. Maybe some tricks/buttons you didn't know about. Make your workflow just a little bit faster. 

And you may say, Amanda that only saves me about 20 seconds. Well, after editing 4  pictures saving that 20 seconds is a now a minute...and then 8, 2 minutes and you get the idea. So, without further ado: The first Tutorial Tuesday!

Tutorial Tuesday - Some Basic Tips

I found this little gem for you guys to learn some new (maybe not) tricks of Photoshop. Maybe some hidden buttons you didn't know existed. I know they ALL have helped me!

Check it out here:  20 Handy Photoshop Tips for Faster Workflow

I will never forget when I learned in school about the space bar to move a selection. I was so excited! All that time I had been redoing it! lol!

Did you know if your using the circle marquee tool that if you hold down the SHIFT key it makes a perfectly round circle, not an oval? Now you do! 

I could probably write a 10 page blog post with different tricks, but I won't bore you. There are more Tutorial Tuesdays to come! :)

Have fun with it, hope you learn something new and if you have anything to add do so in the comments!

Forgot to add this too: You won't ever have to buy anything with any tutorials. It will all be free.

Thanks guys! Amanda