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12 Twitter Techniques
Using Twitter social network effectively
Twitter is a very powerful social networking tool, that has gained great popularity in the last couple of years. I would highly suggest creating a profile and regularly updating your status to increase your web visibility. This is a great article written by Josh Catone on 12 rules to abide by while using Twitter, enjoy.
There is no doubt that Twitter has been one of the hottest new web applications of the past couple of years. Since making a huge splash at the South By Southwest Interactive conference in March 2007, the simple little microblogging and status application has grown like a weed to the point where it is now slowly seeping into the mainstream with use on major television networks like CNN in the United States.
As great as Twitter can be as a communication platform, it can also be a major distraction and a pain to use if you don't have the right tools. If you're sitting on Twitter.com and clicking reload all day to get the latest tweets, you're clearly not getting the most out of Twitter. So below are 12 tools you can use to make the most of your Twitter account.
1. Form Groups
One thing that Twitter has long needed, but so far hasn't implemented, are groups. Once you hit a certain threshold of people you are following, the number of tweets coming in gets a bit overwhelming. Being able to filter your tweets by groups would go a long way toward helping to sift through that flood of information. It would also add utility to the site, which could then be used for group-specific communication (as in, for software development teams, companies, study groups, etc.). Though no official groups feature from Twitter exists there are a couple of ad-hoc solutions.
Tweetparty uses hashtags (see #7) to direct messages to groups you create on the site. Messages are sent by direct message to the Tweetparty bot and redistributed to the proper group based on the hashtag. GroupTweet works by creating a message distribution robot out of a new account that you register for your group. Your group follows that new, robot account, and routes all messages through it (remember to protect your updates on the robot account to keep prying eyes from following your group's messages).
2. Find the Latest News
There are a number of Twitter link trackers that attempt to identify the top news by looking at URLs as they are tweeted and retweeted. Unfortunately, none of them work all that well. Twitturls is almost an exception, though. It's not perfect - and isn't as polished as other link-based, automated memetrackers you're used to, such as Techmeme or Google News, but it gets the job done for the most part.
Twitturls looks at links as they are tweeted and attempts to find the most popular, recently talked about links across the Twittersphere. It definitely finds some gems, and can also be filtered to show just tweeted pictures and videos.
3. Share Pictures, Music, and Videos
Ever wanted to share a picture, music file, or video on Twitter? Well, you could link to it, but that means finding some place to host it, which means adding steps to the process. Twittershare is a handy little application that allows you to share files on Twitter up to 10mb with drag and drop ease. Right now it only has Mac and web interfaces, with Windows XP/Vista promised soon (why didn't they just use AIR?).
4. Research Trends
Twist is an awesome (and for a blogger like myself, often times invaluable) tool that lets you create Compete-style trend graphs plotting terms mentioned on Twitter against each other. It's a great research tool that can expose interesting snap trends in what people are talking about. For example, Google's Chrome already gets more chatter consistently than Apple's Safari browser, but neither can match the constant talk about Firefox. Twist can show charts for the past week or the past month and can be embedded.
5. Don't Forget Anything
One of the first web applications ever to start using Twitter was Remember the Milk, an online to-do list. RTM isn't just a sentimental inclusion in this round up, though, it actually makes good use of Twitter. The site uses the microblogging service to let you add tasks, assign tasks, and mark items as completed via text message. Very convenient.
6. Find People
When you first sign up to Twitter, you'll want to add some friends. But what's the best way to find them? Twitter's internal search isn't all that great. Twellow is a good place to start, though. It's a directory built on the back of Twitter that also links to other social site profiles of the people it finds and knows about. Twitdir is a directory of over 3.1 million Twitter accounts and also has some top 100 lists if you're interested in keeping a pulse on the most popular or prolific Twitterati.
Once you have some friends, Twubble and Twits Like Me can help expand your social graph by recommending people like you that you might want to follow. Each site works a bit differently, so try both to get the maximum effect. The beauty of Twitter is that you can unfollow people easily and anonymously, so if things aren't working out with your new friends, it's not hard to say goodbye.
7. Join a Meme
Hashtags are a way to keep track of specific topics or memes on Twitter. By appending a certain word with the # symbol, Hashtags can group together tweets about the same topic. For example, if you are attending the XYZ Conference, you and others attending might use the hashtag #xyzconf08. Then followers could search for that hashtag and get each attendee's tweets on the conference - and not their other tweets.
They're a neat idea that can help to filter the signal from the noise on Twitter, which is one of the service's biggest downsides. The downside to using hashtags, however, is that they make your already tiny 140-character message window just a bit smaller.
8. Tweet from the Desktop
Tweeting from Twitter.com's web based interface can be tedious. And if you have a lot of followers or are following a lot of people, it is downright inadequate. For anyone serious about getting into Twitter, you need to get a desktop client to keep track of things. There are many, but my personal favorite is Twhirl. It's a cross-browser client made using Adobe's AIR runtime and also supports Identi.ca, Laconi.ca, FriendFeed, and Seesmic (which owns it). On the iPhone/iPod Touch, I use the Twitterific app.
9. Follow the Conversation
One of the biggest knocks against Twitter is that conversations aren't threaded, so it's hard to keep track of who said what, especially if more than one person chimes in and replies are suddenly spread out over multiple pages. Third party site Quotably attempts to rectify that. Quotably analyzes @ replies and attempts to thread conversations. It doesn't work perfectly, but the result sometimes brings at least a little clarity to long threads that on Twitter are almost impossible to follow.
Unfortunately, Quotably doesn't seem to be updating as often as it should be recently.
10. Measure Your Addiction
Twitter addict? It's okay, we're on #10 on the list, so it's expected that you'd be addicted by now. You can find out just how addicted you are with TweetStats. TweetStats graphs your Twitter usages so you can see how many tweets you're sending each day, hour, and month, who you're talking to the most, and how you're sending your updates.
As long as you're not tweeting a thousand times at 3am, I think you'll be okay.
11. Get SMS Tweeting Back
In August Twitter announced that due to rising costs, it was cutting SMS support in a number of countries outside of the USA and Canada. I mostly use Twitter from my laptop or iPod Touch (meaning when I am in wifi range), but for many, using Twitter via SMS text message is how it's done. If you're in one of the affected countries and don't mind forking over some cash, there are some third party sites that have you covered. At least four that I know of, in fact: hootSMS, TwitSMS, Twittex, and tweetSMS.
12. Make Some Money
Got a lot of followers? Then maybe you'll want to sell your profile background to advertisers for cash. Launched about a month ago, Twittad is a marketplace for Twitter users to sell their profile background space for cash. Twittadd works by selling the "dead" space next to your Twitter update stream on your Twitter user profile page, which can be changed via the background image.
Twittad is a marketplace, so you (as the seller) set the price for your background, and Twittad collects a 5% service fee from the advertiser (so presumably you keep 100%
There is no doubt that Twitter has been one of the hottest new web applications of the past couple of years. Since making a huge splash at the South By Southwest Interactive conference in March 2007, the simple little microblogging and status application has grown like a weed to the point where it is now slowly seeping into the mainstream with use on major television networks like CNN in the United States.
As great as Twitter can be as a communication platform, it can also be a major distraction and a pain to use if you don't have the right tools. If you're sitting on Twitter.com and clicking reload all day to get the latest tweets, you're clearly not getting the most out of Twitter. So below are 12 tools you can use to make the most of your Twitter account.
1. Form Groups
One thing that Twitter has long needed, but so far hasn't implemented, are groups. Once you hit a certain threshold of people you are following, the number of tweets coming in gets a bit overwhelming. Being able to filter your tweets by groups would go a long way toward helping to sift through that flood of information. It would also add utility to the site, which could then be used for group-specific communication (as in, for software development teams, companies, study groups, etc.). Though no official groups feature from Twitter exists there are a couple of ad-hoc solutions.
Tweetparty uses hashtags (see #7) to direct messages to groups you create on the site. Messages are sent by direct message to the Tweetparty bot and redistributed to the proper group based on the hashtag. GroupTweet works by creating a message distribution robot out of a new account that you register for your group. Your group follows that new, robot account, and routes all messages through it (remember to protect your updates on the robot account to keep prying eyes from following your group's messages).
2. Find the Latest News
There are a number of Twitter link trackers that attempt to identify the top news by looking at URLs as they are tweeted and retweeted. Unfortunately, none of them work all that well. Twitturls is almost an exception, though. It's not perfect - and isn't as polished as other link-based, automated memetrackers you're used to, such as Techmeme or Google News, but it gets the job done for the most part.
Twitturls looks at links as they are tweeted and attempts to find the most popular, recently talked about links across the Twittersphere. It definitely finds some gems, and can also be filtered to show just tweeted pictures and videos.
3. Share Pictures, Music, and Videos
Ever wanted to share a picture, music file, or video on Twitter? Well, you could link to it, but that means finding some place to host it, which means adding steps to the process. Twittershare is a handy little application that allows you to share files on Twitter up to 10mb with drag and drop ease. Right now it only has Mac and web interfaces, with Windows XP/Vista promised soon (why didn't they just use AIR?).
4. Research Trends
Twist is an awesome (and for a blogger like myself, often times invaluable) tool that lets you create Compete-style trend graphs plotting terms mentioned on Twitter against each other. It's a great research tool that can expose interesting snap trends in what people are talking about. For example, Google's Chrome already gets more chatter consistently than Apple's Safari browser, but neither can match the constant talk about Firefox. Twist can show charts for the past week or the past month and can be embedded.
5. Don't Forget Anything
One of the first web applications ever to start using Twitter was Remember the Milk, an online to-do list. RTM isn't just a sentimental inclusion in this round up, though, it actually makes good use of Twitter. The site uses the microblogging service to let you add tasks, assign tasks, and mark items as completed via text message. Very convenient.
6. Find People
When you first sign up to Twitter, you'll want to add some friends. But what's the best way to find them? Twitter's internal search isn't all that great. Twellow is a good place to start, though. It's a directory built on the back of Twitter that also links to other social site profiles of the people it finds and knows about. Twitdir is a directory of over 3.1 million Twitter accounts and also has some top 100 lists if you're interested in keeping a pulse on the most popular or prolific Twitterati.
Once you have some friends, Twubble and Twits Like Me can help expand your social graph by recommending people like you that you might want to follow. Each site works a bit differently, so try both to get the maximum effect. The beauty of Twitter is that you can unfollow people easily and anonymously, so if things aren't working out with your new friends, it's not hard to say goodbye.
7. Join a Meme
Hashtags are a way to keep track of specific topics or memes on Twitter. By appending a certain word with the # symbol, Hashtags can group together tweets about the same topic. For example, if you are attending the XYZ Conference, you and others attending might use the hashtag #xyzconf08. Then followers could search for that hashtag and get each attendee's tweets on the conference - and not their other tweets.
They're a neat idea that can help to filter the signal from the noise on Twitter, which is one of the service's biggest downsides. The downside to using hashtags, however, is that they make your already tiny 140-character message window just a bit smaller.
8. Tweet from the Desktop
Tweeting from Twitter.com's web based interface can be tedious. And if you have a lot of followers or are following a lot of people, it is downright inadequate. For anyone serious about getting into Twitter, you need to get a desktop client to keep track of things. There are many, but my personal favorite is Twhirl. It's a cross-browser client made using Adobe's AIR runtime and also supports Identi.ca, Laconi.ca, FriendFeed, and Seesmic (which owns it). On the iPhone/iPod Touch, I use the Twitterific app.
9. Follow the Conversation
One of the biggest knocks against Twitter is that conversations aren't threaded, so it's hard to keep track of who said what, especially if more than one person chimes in and replies are suddenly spread out over multiple pages. Third party site Quotably attempts to rectify that. Quotably analyzes @ replies and attempts to thread conversations. It doesn't work perfectly, but the result sometimes brings at least a little clarity to long threads that on Twitter are almost impossible to follow.
Unfortunately, Quotably doesn't seem to be updating as often as it should be recently.
10. Measure Your Addiction
Twitter addict? It's okay, we're on #10 on the list, so it's expected that you'd be addicted by now. You can find out just how addicted you are with TweetStats. TweetStats graphs your Twitter usages so you can see how many tweets you're sending each day, hour, and month, who you're talking to the most, and how you're sending your updates.
As long as you're not tweeting a thousand times at 3am, I think you'll be okay.
11. Get SMS Tweeting Back
In August Twitter announced that due to rising costs, it was cutting SMS support in a number of countries outside of the USA and Canada. I mostly use Twitter from my laptop or iPod Touch (meaning when I am in wifi range), but for many, using Twitter via SMS text message is how it's done. If you're in one of the affected countries and don't mind forking over some cash, there are some third party sites that have you covered. At least four that I know of, in fact: hootSMS, TwitSMS, Twittex, and tweetSMS.
12. Make Some Money
Got a lot of followers? Then maybe you'll want to sell your profile background to advertisers for cash. Launched about a month ago, Twittad is a marketplace for Twitter users to sell their profile background space for cash. Twittadd works by selling the "dead" space next to your Twitter update stream on your Twitter user profile page, which can be changed via the background image.
Twittad is a marketplace, so you (as the seller) set the price for your background, and Twittad collects a 5% service fee from the advertiser (so presumably you keep 100%
101 Helpful Hints for Photoshop
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1. Press Tab will hide tool bar and palette, Shift+Tab will hide only palette.
2. Hold Shift + click the top blue bar for toolbar and palette will move them to the nearest edge.
3. Double click the top blue bar, on any palette window, to minimize it.
4. Double click the gray background will bring up open file option, Hold Shift+double click will open up the browser.
5. Sick of the default gray background around your image? Select paint bucket, hold shift and click on the gray background, it will change to whatever color you have in your foreground color box.
6. In Photoshop, all "Cancel" buttons in a window can be changed to a "Reset" button by holding Alt.
7. Caps lock will switch your cursor for accuracy.
8. Press F button, it will switch between 3 different screen modes and give you more working area.
9. To draw a straight line, click then move to the end point and hold shift + click.
10. Hold Ctrl will temporary make any tool into move tool until you release Ctrl.
11. Ctrl + Alt and click drag the image, it will make a duplication of the current image over lay on top.
12. Hold Space bar, it will make any tool into "Hand Tool" until you release Space bar.
13. While in Zoom Tool, Ctrl+space = zoom in, alt+space = zoom out.
14. Hold Ctrl and press "+" or "-" it will change the % for image in navigator window.
15. When Using eyedropper tool to capture foreground color, hold Alt and click, it will instantly capture the color for background.
16. With Measure Tool, draw a line then hold Alt and draw another line from the end of the first line, it will measure the angle.
17. Ctrl+Alt+Z and Ctrl+Shift+Z will go back and forth in the history.
18. Alt+Backspace and Ctrl+Backspace will fill in the whole screen with foreground color or background color, Shift+backspace will bring up option window, Alt+Shift+Backspace and Ctrl+Shift+Backspace, will fill the image with foreground or background color but will leave the alpha transparent area alone.
19. When free transforming with Ctrl+T, hold Alt to keep the original image and then to transform a duplicated layer of it. Ctrl+Shift+T to repeat whatever you did in the last transform.
20. To make sure your Crop is on the edge of the image, hold Ctrl while cropping.
21. Ctrl+J will duplicate the current layer.
22. Ctrl+Shift+E will merge all visible layers to one layer, Ctrl+Shift+Alt+E will make a copy of the original and merge all visible layers.
23. While using Marquee Tools, hold Alt it will make the starting point as a center of the selection.
24. Ctrl + D to deselect, Ctrl+Shift+D to reselect what you deselected.
25. While selecting with Marquee tool, pressing the space bar can allow you to move the selection.
26. Hold Shift and press "+" or "-" it will switch between the layer mode:
N = Normal
I = Dissolve
M = Multiply
S = Screen
O = Overlay
F = Soft Light
H = Hard Light
D = Color Dodge
B = Color Burn
K = Darken
G = Lighten
E = Difference
X = Exclusion
U = Hue
T = Saturation
C = Color
Y = Luminosity
Q = Behind 1
L = Threshold 2
R = Clear 3
W = Shadow 4
V = Midtones 4
Z = Highlights 4
***The shortcut works even for following situation:
***Alpha turned off, Indexed Mode, Line tool, Bucket Tools, Dodge and Burn Tools
27. While using Brush or any other tools, change the opacity by typing the number.
*** type one number for % of it's ten times [4=40%]
***type two number for exact % [press 7 then 2 will get 72%]
28. Hold Alt while clicking on the eye icon beside the layer, it will hide all other layers.
29. Hold Alt while clicking the pen icon beside the layer, it will unchain this layer from all layers.
30. Select a layer, hold Alt and click the top edge of another layer, it will group them.
31. Hold Alt and click the button "Create a new layer", it will create a new adjustment layer.
32. Select a layer and hold Alt, then click on the garbage can button. It will instantly delete the layer, marquee where you want alpha and Ctrl+click the "Create new channel" button, it will create an alpha only on the area you marquee.
33. File> Automate > Contact Sheet: this can create a small thumbnail for every file, this can save you some time from searching.
34. When Move Tool is selected, toolbox on top can be useful from time to time, these are "Auto select layer" and "Show bounding box".
35. While Move Tool is selected, hold Shift (Alt+Shift+Right click) and allow whether or not to make a current layer chain with your upper layer.
36. With grid on, click the top left corner of the grid and drag to anywhere on the image to set the pivot, double clicking on the icon again reset the pivot.
37. After, draw a path on the image with pen tool, Ctrl+shift+H can hide/show it.
38. Control Navigator with keyboard sometimes can be more time efficient than mouse.
***
Home = move to top left corner
End = move to right bottom corner
PageUp = move up one page
PageDown = move down one page
Ctrl+PageUp = move left one page
Ctrl+PageDown = move right one page
Shift+PageUp = move up 10 pixel
Shift+PageDown = move down 10 pixel
Ctrl+Shift+PageUp = move left 10 pixel
Ctrl+Shift+PageDown = move right 10 pixel
39. Ctrl+Tab allows you to switch between different image files you are working on.
40. F12 = Revert to how the file was the last time you saved it.
41. Shortcuts for Channel: RGB, CMYK, indexed color...
***
Ctrl+"~" = RGB
Ctrl+1 = red
Ctrl+2 = green
Ctrl+3 = blue
Ctrl+4 = other path
Ctrl+9 = other path
Ctrl+"~" = CMYK
Ctrl+1 = light green
Ctrl+2 = pink red
Ctrl+3 = yellow
Ctrl+4 = black
Ctrl+5 = other path
Ctrl+9 = other path
Ctrl+1 = Indexed
Ctrl+2 = other path
Ctrl+9 = other path
42. hold Ctrl then you can draw a red box in the Navigator thumbnail for viewing.
43. Hold Alt and click on any of the history steps, that step will be copied and become the most recent one.
44. Alt drag a step from a serial action can copy it to another action.
45. Alt-click the flare preview thumb, and you can fill in numerical co-ordinates for lens flare.
46. Holding Shift + Alt while transforming an object will do it proportionally, from the center.
47. If you have the move tool selected and you want something duplicated just hold the alt key and move the image, holding the Shift + Alt while doing this, it will move it along one axis.
48. If you want to straighten an image that is crooked (maybe from scanning), click on the eyedropper tool or hit the I key 3 times to get the ruler. Click on the left side of the straight edge, then the right side of the straight (but crooked) edge. The choose Image> Rotate Canvas> Arbitrary, Photoshop will give you the degrees of rotation you just click ok.
49. If you create something in Illustrator, copy and paste it in Photoshop, it will ask you if you want this to be a pixel, path, or shape layer.
50. If you have a mask on a layer and you want to place a image in there and keep the mask. Simply open the image, say copy, and then Ctrl click on the layer to select the mask and use Shift + Ctrl + V to paste it into the mask which will also put it on a new layer as well.
51. To center an image, Ctrl + A , Ctrl + X, Ctrl + V, I think it also puts that image on a new layer.
52. Ctrl+E will merge the highlighted layer down to the next
53. When you have a brush selected, using [ or ] will scroll up or down that brush list.
54. Double clicking the zoom tool will make the image 100%, double clicking the hand tool will fit the image to your screen resolution.
55. Typing Content:
Ctrl + H will hide the highlight on your selected type.
If you click once while your type is selected on the font list, you can use your arrows to scroll up and down and see the fonts change on the fly!
Alt + Left or Right arrows will change your tracking in increments of 10
Ctrl + Alt + Left or Right arrows will change your tracking in increments of 100
Ctrl + Alt + Up or Down arrows will change your leading in increments of 10 pts
Shift + Ctrl with < or > will change your font size in increments of 2 pts
56. Ctrl + Alt + T to make a copy of the layer in which you want to transform.
57. Ctrl + Alt + Right arrow. duplicates the layer you are on.
58. Change the active layer : Alt + [ or ].
59. Move the active layer up and down : Ctrl + [ or ].
60. Link 2 layers: with move tool click in the first layer hold Shift and click in the second one.
61. Ctrl+[plus key] will let you zoom in on an image anytime while Ctrl+[minus key] zooms out. Ctrl+Alt+[plus key] will zoom in AND RESIZE the window to fit the image size... same for Ctrl+Alt+[minus key] as well.
62. When using the Polygonal Lasso Tool, click backspace to undo a lasso step.
63. Pressing X will switch the selected foreground and background colors.
64. Pressing D will reset the foreground and backgrounds colors to black and white.
65. If your image has multiple layers, create a Marquee selection and press Ctrl+Shift+Cit won't work if you selected a hidden layer) will copy the image into memory as if they were flattened! Paste it on a new document to see the result.
66. Ctrl+Alt+Z will do multiple undo, versus just one.
67. Ctrl+click a layer thumbnail to select the layer transparency
68. To see what your layer mask looks like (and edit it), Alt+click its thumbnail in the layers palette
69. Press and hold Ctrl+Alt and click the Help bar with your mouse, drag it down and highlight "About Photoshop" and let go of the left mouse button for a different About Photoshop splash/screen.
70. When using Polygon lasso tool hold Shift to make a perfect line, it goes every 30 degrees
71.Photoshop CS2: Group many layers by clicking the layers you want to group by clicking it while holding the Shift key down, and then press Ctrl+G to group them into a folder for means of better organization.
72. Ctrl+Shift+N creates a new layer with a dialog box; Ctrl+Shift+Alt+N gets you a new layer without the hassle.
73. Back to brush, [ and ] will increase/decrease your brush size, Shift + [ or ] will soften or
2. Hold Shift + click the top blue bar for toolbar and palette will move them to the nearest edge.
3. Double click the top blue bar, on any palette window, to minimize it.
4. Double click the gray background will bring up open file option, Hold Shift+double click will open up the browser.
5. Sick of the default gray background around your image? Select paint bucket, hold shift and click on the gray background, it will change to whatever color you have in your foreground color box.
6. In Photoshop, all "Cancel" buttons in a window can be changed to a "Reset" button by holding Alt.
7. Caps lock will switch your cursor for accuracy.
8. Press F button, it will switch between 3 different screen modes and give you more working area.
9. To draw a straight line, click then move to the end point and hold shift + click.
10. Hold Ctrl will temporary make any tool into move tool until you release Ctrl.
11. Ctrl + Alt and click drag the image, it will make a duplication of the current image over lay on top.
12. Hold Space bar, it will make any tool into "Hand Tool" until you release Space bar.
13. While in Zoom Tool, Ctrl+space = zoom in, alt+space = zoom out.
14. Hold Ctrl and press "+" or "-" it will change the % for image in navigator window.
15. When Using eyedropper tool to capture foreground color, hold Alt and click, it will instantly capture the color for background.
16. With Measure Tool, draw a line then hold Alt and draw another line from the end of the first line, it will measure the angle.
17. Ctrl+Alt+Z and Ctrl+Shift+Z will go back and forth in the history.
18. Alt+Backspace and Ctrl+Backspace will fill in the whole screen with foreground color or background color, Shift+backspace will bring up option window, Alt+Shift+Backspace and Ctrl+Shift+Backspace, will fill the image with foreground or background color but will leave the alpha transparent area alone.
19. When free transforming with Ctrl+T, hold Alt to keep the original image and then to transform a duplicated layer of it. Ctrl+Shift+T to repeat whatever you did in the last transform.
20. To make sure your Crop is on the edge of the image, hold Ctrl while cropping.
21. Ctrl+J will duplicate the current layer.
22. Ctrl+Shift+E will merge all visible layers to one layer, Ctrl+Shift+Alt+E will make a copy of the original and merge all visible layers.
23. While using Marquee Tools, hold Alt it will make the starting point as a center of the selection.
24. Ctrl + D to deselect, Ctrl+Shift+D to reselect what you deselected.
25. While selecting with Marquee tool, pressing the space bar can allow you to move the selection.
26. Hold Shift and press "+" or "-" it will switch between the layer mode:
N = Normal
I = Dissolve
M = Multiply
S = Screen
O = Overlay
F = Soft Light
H = Hard Light
D = Color Dodge
B = Color Burn
K = Darken
G = Lighten
E = Difference
X = Exclusion
U = Hue
T = Saturation
C = Color
Y = Luminosity
Q = Behind 1
L = Threshold 2
R = Clear 3
W = Shadow 4
V = Midtones 4
Z = Highlights 4
***The shortcut works even for following situation:
***Alpha turned off, Indexed Mode, Line tool, Bucket Tools, Dodge and Burn Tools
27. While using Brush or any other tools, change the opacity by typing the number.
*** type one number for % of it's ten times [4=40%]
***type two number for exact % [press 7 then 2 will get 72%]
28. Hold Alt while clicking on the eye icon beside the layer, it will hide all other layers.
29. Hold Alt while clicking the pen icon beside the layer, it will unchain this layer from all layers.
30. Select a layer, hold Alt and click the top edge of another layer, it will group them.
31. Hold Alt and click the button "Create a new layer", it will create a new adjustment layer.
32. Select a layer and hold Alt, then click on the garbage can button. It will instantly delete the layer, marquee where you want alpha and Ctrl+click the "Create new channel" button, it will create an alpha only on the area you marquee.
33. File> Automate > Contact Sheet: this can create a small thumbnail for every file, this can save you some time from searching.
34. When Move Tool is selected, toolbox on top can be useful from time to time, these are "Auto select layer" and "Show bounding box".
35. While Move Tool is selected, hold Shift (Alt+Shift+Right click) and allow whether or not to make a current layer chain with your upper layer.
36. With grid on, click the top left corner of the grid and drag to anywhere on the image to set the pivot, double clicking on the icon again reset the pivot.
37. After, draw a path on the image with pen tool, Ctrl+shift+H can hide/show it.
38. Control Navigator with keyboard sometimes can be more time efficient than mouse.
***
Home = move to top left corner
End = move to right bottom corner
PageUp = move up one page
PageDown = move down one page
Ctrl+PageUp = move left one page
Ctrl+PageDown = move right one page
Shift+PageUp = move up 10 pixel
Shift+PageDown = move down 10 pixel
Ctrl+Shift+PageUp = move left 10 pixel
Ctrl+Shift+PageDown = move right 10 pixel
39. Ctrl+Tab allows you to switch between different image files you are working on.
40. F12 = Revert to how the file was the last time you saved it.
41. Shortcuts for Channel: RGB, CMYK, indexed color...
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Ctrl+"~" = RGB
Ctrl+1 = red
Ctrl+2 = green
Ctrl+3 = blue
Ctrl+4 = other path
Ctrl+9 = other path
Ctrl+"~" = CMYK
Ctrl+1 = light green
Ctrl+2 = pink red
Ctrl+3 = yellow
Ctrl+4 = black
Ctrl+5 = other path
Ctrl+9 = other path
Ctrl+1 = Indexed
Ctrl+2 = other path
Ctrl+9 = other path
42. hold Ctrl then you can draw a red box in the Navigator thumbnail for viewing.
43. Hold Alt and click on any of the history steps, that step will be copied and become the most recent one.
44. Alt drag a step from a serial action can copy it to another action.
45. Alt-click the flare preview thumb, and you can fill in numerical co-ordinates for lens flare.
46. Holding Shift + Alt while transforming an object will do it proportionally, from the center.
47. If you have the move tool selected and you want something duplicated just hold the alt key and move the image, holding the Shift + Alt while doing this, it will move it along one axis.
48. If you want to straighten an image that is crooked (maybe from scanning), click on the eyedropper tool or hit the I key 3 times to get the ruler. Click on the left side of the straight edge, then the right side of the straight (but crooked) edge. The choose Image> Rotate Canvas> Arbitrary, Photoshop will give you the degrees of rotation you just click ok.
49. If you create something in Illustrator, copy and paste it in Photoshop, it will ask you if you want this to be a pixel, path, or shape layer.
50. If you have a mask on a layer and you want to place a image in there and keep the mask. Simply open the image, say copy, and then Ctrl click on the layer to select the mask and use Shift + Ctrl + V to paste it into the mask which will also put it on a new layer as well.
51. To center an image, Ctrl + A , Ctrl + X, Ctrl + V, I think it also puts that image on a new layer.
52. Ctrl+E will merge the highlighted layer down to the next
53. When you have a brush selected, using [ or ] will scroll up or down that brush list.
54. Double clicking the zoom tool will make the image 100%, double clicking the hand tool will fit the image to your screen resolution.
55. Typing Content:
Ctrl + H will hide the highlight on your selected type.
If you click once while your type is selected on the font list, you can use your arrows to scroll up and down and see the fonts change on the fly!
Alt + Left or Right arrows will change your tracking in increments of 10
Ctrl + Alt + Left or Right arrows will change your tracking in increments of 100
Ctrl + Alt + Up or Down arrows will change your leading in increments of 10 pts
Shift + Ctrl with < or > will change your font size in increments of 2 pts
56. Ctrl + Alt + T to make a copy of the layer in which you want to transform.
57. Ctrl + Alt + Right arrow. duplicates the layer you are on.
58. Change the active layer : Alt + [ or ].
59. Move the active layer up and down : Ctrl + [ or ].
60. Link 2 layers: with move tool click in the first layer hold Shift and click in the second one.
61. Ctrl+[plus key] will let you zoom in on an image anytime while Ctrl+[minus key] zooms out. Ctrl+Alt+[plus key] will zoom in AND RESIZE the window to fit the image size... same for Ctrl+Alt+[minus key] as well.
62. When using the Polygonal Lasso Tool, click backspace to undo a lasso step.
63. Pressing X will switch the selected foreground and background colors.
64. Pressing D will reset the foreground and backgrounds colors to black and white.
65. If your image has multiple layers, create a Marquee selection and press Ctrl+Shift+Cit won't work if you selected a hidden layer) will copy the image into memory as if they were flattened! Paste it on a new document to see the result.
66. Ctrl+Alt+Z will do multiple undo, versus just one.
67. Ctrl+click a layer thumbnail to select the layer transparency
68. To see what your layer mask looks like (and edit it), Alt+click its thumbnail in the layers palette
69. Press and hold Ctrl+Alt and click the Help bar with your mouse, drag it down and highlight "About Photoshop" and let go of the left mouse button for a different About Photoshop splash/screen.
70. When using Polygon lasso tool hold Shift to make a perfect line, it goes every 30 degrees
71.Photoshop CS2: Group many layers by clicking the layers you want to group by clicking it while holding the Shift key down, and then press Ctrl+G to group them into a folder for means of better organization.
72. Ctrl+Shift+N creates a new layer with a dialog box; Ctrl+Shift+Alt+N gets you a new layer without the hassle.
73. Back to brush, [ and ] will increase/decrease your brush size, Shift + [ or ] will soften or
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Following these guidelines will help Google find, index, and rank your site. Even if you choose not to implement any of these suggestions, we strongly encourage you to pay very close attention to the "Quality Guidelines," which outline some of the illicit practices that may lead to a site being removed entirely from the Google index or otherwise penalized. If a site has been penalized, it may no longer show up in results on Google.com or on any of Google's partner sites.When your site is ready:
- Have other relevant sites link to yours.
- Submit it to Google at http://www.google.com/addurl.html.
- Submit a Sitemap as part of our Google Webmaster Tools. Google uses your Sitemap to learn about the structure of your site and to increase our coverage of your webpages.
- Make sure all the sites that should know about your pages are aware your site is online.
- Submit your site to relevant directories such as the Open Directory Project and Yahoo!, as well as to other industry-specific expert sites.
Design and content guidelines
- Make a site with a clear hierarchy and text links. Every page should be reachable from at least one static text link.
- Offer a site map to your users with links that point to the important parts of your site. If the site map is larger than 100 or so links, you may want to break the site map into separate pages.
- Create a useful, information-rich site, and write pages that clearly and accurately describe your content.
- Think about the words users would type to find your pages, and make sure that your site actually includes those words within it.
- Try to use text instead of images to display important names, content, or links. The Google crawler doesn't recognize text contained in images.
- Make sure that your <title> elements and alt attributes are descriptive and accurate.
- Check for broken links and correct HTML.
- If you decide to use dynamic pages (i.e., the URL contains a "?" character), be aware that not every search engine spider crawls dynamic pages as well as static pages. It helps to keep the parameters short and the number of them few.
- Keep the links on a given page to a reasonable number (fewer than 100).
Technical guidelines
- Use a text browser such as Lynx to examine your site, because most search engine spiders see your site much as Lynx would. If fancy features such as JavaScript, cookies, session IDs, frames, DHTML, or Flash keep you from seeing all of your site in a text browser, then search engine spiders may have trouble crawling your site.
- Allow search bots to crawl your sites without session IDs or arguments that track their path through the site. These techniques are useful for tracking individual user behavior, but the access pattern of bots is entirely different. Using these techniques may result in incomplete indexing of your site, as bots may not be able to
eliminate URLs that look different but actually point to the same page.
- Make sure your web server supports the If-Modified-Since HTTP header. This feature allows your web server to tell Google whether your content has changed since we last crawled your site. Supporting this feature saves you bandwidth and overhead.
- Make use of the robots.txt file on your web server. This file tells crawlers which directories can or cannot be crawled. Make sure it's current for your site so that you don't accidentally block the Googlebot crawler. Visit http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/faq.html to learn how to instruct robots when they visit your site. You can test your robots.txt file to make sure you're using it correctly with the robots.txt analysis tool available in Google Webmaster Tools.
- If your company buys a content management system, make sure that the system can export your content so that search engine spiders can crawl your site.
- Use robots.txt to prevent crawling of search results pages or other
auto-generated pages that don't add much value for users coming from search engines.
Quality guidelines
These quality guidelines cover the most common forms of deceptive or manipulative behavior, but Google may respond negatively to other misleading practices not listed here (e.g. tricking users by registering misspellings of well-known websites). It's not safe to assume that just because a specific deceptive technique isn't included on this page, Google approves of it. Webmasters who spend their energies upholding the spirit of the basic principles will provide a much better user experience and subsequently enjoy better ranking than those who spend their time looking for loopholes they can exploit.
If you believe that another site is abusing Google's quality guidelines, please report that site at https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreport. Google prefers developing scalable and automated solutions to problems, so we attempt to minimize hand-to-hand spam fighting. The spam reports we receive are used to create scalable algorithms that recognize and block future spam attempts.
Quality guidelines - basic principles
- Make pages primarily for users, not for search engines. Don't deceive your users or present different content to search engines than you display to users, which is commonly referred to as "cloaking."
- Avoid tricks intended to improve search engine rankings. A good rule of thumb is whether you'd feel comfortable explaining what you've done to a website that competes with you. Another useful test is to ask, "Does this help my users? Would I do this if search engines didn't exist?"
- Don't participate in link schemes designed to increase your site's ranking or PageRank. In particular, avoid links to web spammers or "bad neighborhoods" on the web, as your own ranking may be affected adversely by those links.
- Don't use unauthorized computer programs to submit pages, check rankings, etc. Such programs consume computing resources and violate our Terms of Service. Google does not recommend the use of products such as WebPosition Gold™ that send automatic or programmatic queries to Google.
If you determine that your site doesn't meet these guidelines, you can modify your site so that it does and then submit your site for reconsideration.
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