[Photoshop]The assorted knowledge thread (now sorted!)

[Rubisko]

Alright, so I've been thinking:

Photoshop is huge! I don't know much about it, but almost every time I use it I learn something new, most of the time by accident actually.

So I figured that since there's at least a handful of people here on MT that uses Photoshop to paint, if we have a thread like this we can share the knowledge and learn from others accidental discoveries.

Try to keep it simple; like this:

Caps Lock toggles the outline of the brush and the eraser tool
(probably the other tools too, but I don't use those). I don't know why you would want to toggle this off, but now I know that if the outline should disappear I've just pressed Caps by accident

Come on party people, post something you've discovered. I bet everyone who've used PS just once knows at least something that I don't!
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What we have brought up thus far:

Brush/eraser tool:
Right mouse: Access the brush panel
] and [: Change the brush size (if you have another keyboard layout than eng you may want to rebind
Alt to get the eyedropper tool (not with eraser)
Shift straight lines
1-0 on the keyboard change opacity from 10% to 100%

Navigation controls:
Space: Hand tool
Space+alt: zoom out

Misc:
Ctrl+Z: Undo last action (once)
Ctrl+Alt+Z: Undo multiple times
Ctrl+T: Free transform selection/layer (scale, shear, perspective, warp,...)
Caps Lock: Toggle brush visibility
Tab: Show/hide panels and menus

Hotkeys for tools and panels:
B: Brush tool
E: Eraser tool
S: Stamp tool

[Celestial-Fox]

Ctrl+Z = Undo once
Ctrl+Alt+Z = Undo multiple times

[Rubisko]

Good one Seefy, those are my most used keystrokes...
I've also come to realize that PS's Undo function works with the GLOBAL history, so when I work with several files open in the same instance Ctrl+Alt+Z has saved me on countless ocations...

[Celestial-Fox]

Right-click on your canvas to quickly access the Brush panel.

[Cloudy]

Select something Ctrl + T = edit size and scale, rotate etc.

[Sylux]

Shift to access stamp tool

[GunZet]

] and [ control brush size.

[Rubisko]

One-Point Perspective, quick and dirty:
Form tool => Star(in polygon options), 99 sides, 99% indent.
Result:

[apples13]

does anyone know how to create this in photoshop?

[Rubisko]

@apples: I think you need PS Extended, it has 3D capabilities. I use standard so I can't help you, but I know it's called Repoussé, try to google it if you have the extended version