Use the Command, Option and C keys together to open the canvas size dialog box. Use the Command, Option and I keys to access the image size dialog box. This Photoshop tutorial was designed to give you assorted helpful tips on using the shortcuts provided by your keyboard in order to improve your productivity and faster work flow. Photoshop CS3 Shortcuts: Mac. Here are many keyboard shortcuts for Photoshop CS3, including lesser known and hidden keystrokes! Shift-Arrow Keys. Select all Opaque Pixels on Layer. Cmd-Click on Layer Thumbnail (in Layers palette).

Quick Screenshot Key Commands in Mac OS X by Nate Croft Every designer knows that at some point during a project there will screenshots, and lots of them. Third party applications often get this job, but if you are a Mac user (10.3 and later), you have another option built right into the OS. That option comes in the form of key commands, and the key commands come in three flavors: 1. If you want a file saved to the desktop for later editing use Shift+Command(Apple)+3 for the whole screen and Shift+Command(Apple)+4 for a selection. If you want a screenshot that can be pasted directly into Photoshop/Illustrator/Etc. Use Shift+Control+Command(Apple)+3 for the whole screen and Shift+Control+Command(Apple)+4 for a selection. Then go back to your application and paste it right in!

Whatever you work in Dia will be saved in its dedicated.dia format. Even its features are somewhat similar to Visio, whether you’re trying to generate UML diagrams, to create flowcharts and entity relationship diagrams or network architectures and processes. Free app for mac like visio. Nevertheless, just like LucidChart, it also supports the Microsoft Visio program with vdx format.

If your want just a window and need to be precise press Shift+Command+4 just like you would for a selection, then hit the space bar. Your cursor will turn into a camera. From there just click on the window you want.

It can even be covered by another window and it will only include the window you picked. This also works with the control key added if you want to past it directly into an application. I don’t know when I ran across these, but they are such a time saver.

For all the Windows users out there, is there anything like this for Windows? We’d love to know. Leave us a comment with your tips and tricks.

You asked if there was a Windows way to do this? Well as far as I know you can press the “Print Screen” button on the top right of the keyboard, this takes a snapshot of your entire screen.

Then you can just go to Edit>Paste if you are in Photoshop, if you don’t have Photoshop you can also use the generic Paint program and Edit>Paste it there. If you want to do a screen grab of just the highlighted window, you can use “alt” along with “print screen” to just get a picture of the highlighted window. Hope this helps, •. In Windows you can press PrintScreen to copy the entire screen(s) to the clipboard, or Alt + PrintScreen to copy the currently focused window to the clipboard. The clipboard can then be Pasted in Photoshop etc. In Windows (7 definitely, Vista probably, 8 most probably) you can open the Snipping Tool (I just hit the Start button or Windows key and type “snip” in the start search. This built-in app lets you do full-screen, window, and selection screen captures, and then automatically produces an image, and gives you image format options, e.g.

Jpeg, png, etc. To save the image as a file.