The following tips are a tad esoteric, but I’m passing them along in case they’re of interest\/use: <\/p>\n
It turns out the capability is already there: right-click (Win)\/Ctrl-click (Mac) to set the background color to gray, black, or a color of your choosing; here’s a screenshot<\/a>. Alternatively, you can grab the Paint Bucket tool, then shift-click the background to make it take on whatever foreground color you have selected. Each screen mode can have its own background color. New to CS3 is the abilty to cycle through gray, black, and custom colors by pressing Shift-F. This little trick gave rise to my CS3 Stupid Photoshop Trick: going "clubbing" in Photoshop by holding down \n*D’oh–sorry, I typed the wrong modifier; now fixed. I need to stop writing these things at 3am (no kidding).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The following tips are a tad esoteric, but I’m passing them along in case they’re of interest\/use: When you press F in Photoshop and enter Maximized or Full-Screen Mode with Menu Bar, the background surrounding the image goes to gray; press F again (taking you into Full-Screen Mode (no menu bar)) and the background will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12691"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Shift<\/strike>Space-F* while singing the "do-DE<\/em>-do-DOO-do" riff from The System Is Down<\/a>. <\/em>(Trust me, you’re not missing out.)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
![screenshot<\/a>. Alternatively, you can grab the Paint Bucket tool, then shift-click the background to make it take on whatever foreground color you have selected. Each screen mode can have its own background color. New to CS3 is the abilty to cycle through gray, black, and custom colors by pressing Shift-F. This little trick gave rise to my CS3 Stupid Photoshop Trick: going "clubbing" in Photoshop by holding down Shift<\/strike>Space-F* while singing the "do-DE<\/em>-do-DOO-do" riff from The System Is Down<\/a>. <\/em>(Trust me, you’re not missing out.)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n On the Mac OS you can drag the little "document proxy" icon in any document’s title bar (screenshot<\/a>) in order to move the document around, provided you don’t have any unsaved changes. Dave Girard<\/a> from Ars Technica swears by this capability as a quick way to move files between Photoshop, Bridge, Maya, and other applications. In this short video<\/a> he shows a folder being revealed in Bridge, then documents being moved among apps without requiring a trip back to the Finder or Bridge. \n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n*D’oh–sorry, I typed the wrong modifier; now fixed. I need to stop writing these things at 3am (no kidding).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The following tips are a tad esoteric, but I’m passing them along in case they’re of interest\/use: When you press F in Photoshop and enter Maximized or Full-Screen Mode with Menu Bar, the background surrounding the image goes to gray; press F again (taking you into Full-Screen Mode (no menu bar)) and the background will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12691"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/adobe\/photoshop\/bg_color_picker.jpg\"){kind=link}
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