How To Use Adobe Photoshop Cs5 Step By Step

[Lorna Schildt]

I am trying to create a step and repeat pattern. I use the commands ctrl + alt + t and it will select the item. When I try to move the item, it will not move. IF I hold down the command and THEN click on the layer I can move the duplicate object. I then hit enter, but if I use the command ctrl + alt + shift + t it SHOULD copy and then move the new object exactly how I did it prior. This does nothing. I feel like I'm either missing something or the command for this functionality has changed? I have recently upgraded from CS3 (yeah I know it was old) to PS2021. Quite a change. Am I just doing something wrong. This seems to be a very simple process and it just doesn't work. Thank you for your help!

Are you trying to do it with a smart object? It seems the expected Step and Repeat funtionality does not work with Smart Objects. Everything works fine with regular layers and shapes, though. I can't seem to find any documentation on this.

Hmm. I never thought about that being the possible issue. I will have to go back and look. I think I was using Smart Objects because of how easy it is to change just one logo out and they all update. I will try it with just regular layers and see if maybe that is the root. Seems strange as a Smart object is one of the huge benefits of working in Photoshop. Thanks for the reply!

You can also have issue with shape layer when Path / Direct Selection tools or path drawing tools are active (or shape paths selected). In that case shape will be duplicated on the same shape layer. To get copy on new layer deselect paths or deactivate path selection / drawing tool.

I am a digital artist and draw rapidly and make mistakes or adjustments so there the step backward command is very useful as I can go back quite a few times using Alt+Ctrl+Z. Now in cc2019 this command only steps back once, the same as undo.

HI everyone I'm really having trouble going backwards/undoing more than once, option+command+z used to take me backwards lots of steps but today I opened my photoshop and it only undo's once and then redos and my edit tab now says toggle last state instead or step backward, please help me fix this what have I done? I can't go back more then one step and then redo

I just updated to the new Mac OS operating system. I can't launch Adobe Acrobat or photoshop. I did try downloading the free reader and still get the same error message.It was fine before the update. I uninstalled and reinstalled and still get the error. It says "Check with the developer to make sure Adobe Acrobat works with this version of mac OS. You may need to reinstall the application. Be sure to install any available updates for the application and macOS." (By the

I use much more the now "Toggle last state" function than multiple undos, but I can't change it easily because if I set toggle to cmd+z then I can't Undo once, so it is all a mess. How can I use cmd+alt+Z for multiple Undo and then cmd+Z to undo/red? If someone can help I'd be grateful. I honestly don't have much time to investigate this things.

I have few questions on this subject. The problem is that when you select a layer and put 2 strokes of brush you have to hit "step backward" twice in order to delete them both (you can't use undo since it will redo the first stroke you delete) and the currently selected layer changes to the last selected layer, not the one where the brush strokes were applied.

The easiest way to deal with this is to see through Adobe's nonsensical nomenclature and disregard for user perspective, their love of paradigms from the dark ages of computing and their insistence that they're not doing anything wrong - that it is YOU, the customer, that does not understand their right to insist on being staid and ignore pragmatism.

UNDO in Photoshop is badly named. It is not an UNDO function. It's a "Let me review how it looked in the previous state." button. That's why hitting it twice shows you how it was just before your previous change, and then swaps you back to your current point.

What's most annoying about this is that Photoshop is about the only app in the world that defaults to this behaviour under the traditional CONTROL + Z combo that everyone else in the world associated with UNDO, and yet at no point do they take the time to explain this... nor provide a simple option to make this shortcut into a proper Undo feature.

And Review/Continue is actually a really useful feature for something like image processing style editing. So much so that it probably deserves a top tier, single key shortcut toggle, like the Tilde key or something like that. But you won't ever see Adobe admit to having done something wrong, or consider pragmatic changes and options for its users.

This is Adobe's stubbornness at its height. You also can't easily step through prior layer visibility settings changes if you break their fragile ordering system in the Step-backward feature. And this can be an absolute NIGHTMARE with a big file with many layers.

Adobe is in a near complete monopolistic situation of the graphic design market. How they came to that can best be described by saying they bought all advertorial, editorial and advertising throughout the design industry through most of the 90s. Through the 2000s they exercised this monopoly and ultimately bought out their sole remaining competitor, who was already struggling. They've since killed off the two best of breed products that competitor produced: Freehand and Fireworks. They've created a "user forum" and "bug report" system that deliberately hides and obfuscates all problems and issues with their software as best as they can, and there's no coordination of designers elsewhere to commentate on their activities and critique their products in an honest manner.

To start a rival product is a major endeavour, but not impossible. Fighting Adobe's hold on the media and actually getting positive press for a great design product under their tyrannical control of the endemic media is, however, almost impossible. Only Autodesk could do it, and they're in a different market. And probably don't care to bother. And have some of their own issues...

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Many of us, from professional photographers to complete beginners, get the urge to try our hand at Photoshop. Whichever you are, you shouldn't be intimated by the prospect of editing in Photoshop; it only takes a few steps to make your pictures look great.

Adobe Photoshop offers users endless possibilities to edit their photos and create graphics, which is why it's become my personal go-to over the years. There are several ways to edit in Photoshop. Which ones you choose will depend on preference. We'll cover a very basic method to edit a photo in the steps below.

Open Adobe Photoshop and go to File in the menu at the top of your screen. Click on Open to view the file browser and select which picture you want to edit. I chose a picture that was taken by my five-year-old.

Photoshop works with layers, so when you make an adjustment like brightness and contrast, you add an adjustment layer on top of your picture. If you decide to delete that layer later on, the brightness and contrast adjustment will be deleted with it.

It's important to keep the order of your layers in mind as well. If you're editing a photo, that image should be the first layer. Anything below that image layer will not be visible unless you erase a portion of your image (by cutting, using the Eraser tool, or deleting it) to let what's below it show through.

Select the Crop tool. Then, think of the photo as a canvas. The first thing I do when I open a picture in Photoshop is adjust my canvas to the size and composition I need. Just click the corners of the crop frame and drag it to adjust the size. When you're happy with the new framing, you can place your cursor just outside any edge of the Crop Tool's bounding box until you see it turn into a bent, double-ended arrow. Clicking and holding will let you move the frame to rotate and straighten your image.

Image composition is something a photographer takes into account while taking a photo, but you also need to keep it in mind when cropping. This will ensure that the elements you want to include aren't cropped out and will also maintain good composition.

Straightening is key to a good photo. A good rule of thumb is to always use the horizon as a guide to straighten pictures. If you have a specific horizon line you'd like to use, you can click Straighten in the Options section. This will let you draw a line that the image will instantly rotate to. Not all photos need to be straight, though, and you can choose a tilted composition as an artistic liberty. Play around a bit to see what looks good to you.

Select Levels under Adjustments to add a layer over your image, which will allow you to play with the levels and familiarize yourself with a histogram. Levels can be used to adjust exposure and make photos look brighter or darker.

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