Welcome, my name is Chris Orwig, we are here at photo shop world in Las Vegas. You know, one of the most interesting facts about Las Vegas is this, Las Vegas is the second most traveled to place in the world. That makes you wonder what is first, well the answer is Mecca. Think about that one for a while.
Anyway we are here in Las Vegas and we are going to learn a little bit more about Adobe Photo shop CS4. And I am in the side of the Adobe bridge, so I am going ahead and select the image inside the Adobe bridge and then press command O on a Mac, control O on a PC that open the image up inside of Adobe camera raw hosted by photo shop.
Next step, click open image. Now, once this image is open in photo shop, I am evaluating the image, I think you and I like it, I like the colors and tone, of course I am going to need to work on this image quite a bit so I am going to press the F key, to go to full screen view mode. Inside the full screen view mode, I like being able to evaluate the image without the clatter of the background.
I can change my screen view modes, a couple of different ways, I can click on this icon here and change it by clicking on the option in the drop down menu or the pull down menu or I can simply press the F key to toggle through the different full screen view modes. You can also press Shift F, to toggle backwards between those full screen view modes.
Now that we are in full screen view mode, and now that we are evaluating the image, I notice that there is a problem, I had some dust on my lens; we can see that up there, so I need to correct that. So I am going to go ahead and select the spot healing brush, I am going to do that by clicking on the healing icon here, and then choose spot healing brush. I am going to hover over this little spot and my brush is too small. Now, you may remember that in previous version of photo shop, you can use the bracket keys to change your brush size. Left bracket key makes it smaller, right bracket key makes it bigger. And a lot of times what that means is you have to set down the mouse, or it would be great if there was a shortcut where you did not have to let go the mouse. Well, there is a brand new shortcut in CS4, check it out.
You hold down control in the option and then click and drag and look at how quickly you can change the brush size then simply let go the short cut keys like your mouse button and you have a new brush size. Now, on a Mac it is control option on the PC that has control alt, click drag.
Alright, so I am going to press control option, click and drag so I have a nice small brush size and then I will hover over that small blemish there, click on that to remove it and click over there, it is now successfully been removed and you learned a couple of interesting shortcuts along the way.
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