• A couple basic questions
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I just started trying Photoshop, and I can't figure out how to do some things that are basic, but critical: 1) How do I adjust the brightness or color of ONE layer, instead of every layer below? 2) How do I switch to HSL (not HSB) color? 3) How do I make it so left-clicking will draw with the primary color, and right-clicking will draw with the secondary color (instead of opening the brush menu)? 4) How do I make mouse/tablet wheel zooming go in more than ten pixels per step? This is /far/ too slow. PSP seriously doesn't expect me to change to the zoom tool and back to my previous tool every single time I want to zoom, does it? And, for that matter, how do I made wheel zooming move smoothly, like dragging left and right with the zoom tool, instead of only updating every half quarter-second? 5) In PSP9, I'm used to being able to (for example) make a new layer, fill it with white, set its blend to Hard Light (which will usually completely whiten the image), and then reduce its opacity until I get the desired effect. However, in PS, Doing this makes it look like the layer is, in fact, using Normal blend mode (colors and lights don't get highlighted, but rather, everything just gets greyed out). To achieve the result I'm looking for, I have to leave the layer's opacity at 100% and fill it with some shade of grey. While I can technically understand why it's doing this, I prefer how PSP9 handles it. Is there any way to get PS to work the same way? My sanity offers many thanks to anyone who can answer those.
1) ctrl + u 2) You can't 3) You can't, Use the 'x' button to switch 4) box zoom is your friend. 5) You cannot change they way they code the blending mode.
1) Ctrl-U? Out of curiosity, does that point to a menu item that I couldn't find, or is it just a special thing? 2) Damn! That's quite disappointing (and surprising), seeing how much it costs and outrageous amount of control over color profiles and domains they give you... I mean, seriously, HSL color takes less than twenty lines of code to do... 3) Ugh... Christ. What's the point of having exactly two colors, then? 4) What's box zoom? 5) Damn. Oh well. At least knowing that Ctrl-U thing should help deal with this.
[QUOTE=pedroion;26677911] picture[/QUOTE] Hey, wait! That's showing HSL color, right there! How do I get those sliders for the color picker?
oops. I mean: 1) ctrl + L 2) ctrl + U You can only use HSL after you color, you can only use HSB in the color picker. 3) You can't, Use the 'x' button to switch 4) box zoom is your friend. 5) You cannot change they way they code the blending mode. [editline]13th December 2010[/editline] [QUOTE=pedroion;26678566][img_thumb]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4861882/Facepunch/lameshop/hsl.jpg[/img_thumb] I've never seen this before :buddy:[/QUOTE] He said he doesn't want HSB [img]http://www.facepunch.com/fp/emoot/buddy.gif[/img]
[QUOTE=Maya2008;26678822]oops. I mean: 1) ctrl + L 2) ctrl + U [/quote] ctrl l is levels and ctrl u is hue/saturation
levels can change brightness. There is no hot key for brightness and contrast, however. You need to get into the menu for that, which I find annoying, so I just use level. and hue/saturation is the only place you can find HSL in photoshop. Color palette only uses HSB.
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