vyridian sent:

hi! sorry if you've been asked this before, but i'm a total newbie to digital art, and your work has really inspired me~ i was watching your livestream of derse dreamers and noticed you were able to switch brushes/colors really quickly.. i think i saw like, a circular thing pop up around your mouse? or something. i have no idea ;w; i was just wondering what the shortcuts were to change your brush/the color youre painting with. the way i do that stuff is really time consuming and inconvinient

hey,

it’s true that using keyboard shortcuts saves a lot of time while cging. the one you are asking for is the colour picker - just hold alt and (left)click on the picture to pick the colour from that point. it works great with the brush, paint bucket and gradient fill tools. the good thing is that the moment you let go of the alt key you go straight back to the tool you were using^^

other shortcuts that i use a whole lot are: b for brush, e for eraser, d for default foreground and background colour (black and white), x for switching foreground and background colour, ctrl+e for merging down layers, ctrl+a for selecting the whole area, ctrl+d for deselecting, ctrl+shift+i for selection inverse and numbers for quick changing of brush opacity. i use more but those are basic for me. i also changed the settings so that i have step back under ctrl+z, step forward under ctrl+x and liquify filter (useful for small changes) under ctrl+alt+z. you can change yours in the edit -> keyboard shortcuts menu. i tend to refrain from making too many changes though as it is always good to know the defaults in case you end up working on somebody else’s computer^^

if you need more uncle google is your friend! just search for ‘photoshop keyboard shortcuts’ - there is a lot of nice sets of the most useful commands. a couple of examples from the first page:

http://www.digital-photography-school.com/photoshop-shortcut-commands

http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/25-very-useful-photoshop-keyboard-shortcuts-877

good luck^^