Drag Selection Shortcut Key
September 29th, 2006 Filed in: Tricks & Tips Jump to comments
While I was working in Photoshop, I accidentally found a very cool shortcut which allows you to drag the inactive selection around. Have you ever tried to make a precise rectangle selection, but dragged at the wrong position, and you had to release your mouse and re-drag again? Well, next time before you release your mouse button, hold down the Spacebar and Photoshop will allow you to drag the selection around.
Test it now:
- use the Rectangular Marquee tool
- drag any where in your document (don’t release your mouse yet)
- then hold down the Spacebar
- now you can drag the selection around
This also works for Crop and Shape tools (Photoshop and Illustrator).
September 5th, 2007 at 11:53 pm
yeah i forget to tell you that you can change the layer style by Shift + Alt + -
by that kyes you can change your layes style step by step starting with normal then dissolve ….. Etc and you can go back by Shift + Alt + +
September 5th, 2007 at 11:46 pm
here is somthing i found i hope to be usefull for you
you can select the layer behinde by Alt+{
and the front layer by Alt+}
and you can also change your layer style by
Shift+Alt+o to make your layer style Overlay and S to make it Screen layer
and C to make it color layer and L to make it Lemosiny and F to make it Soft light
and you can finde out the rest of layer stayl short cut by tring another letters
also you can change your layer opicty by select any tool that have no Opcity Option
then clik on any number
May 29th, 2007 at 2:18 pm
YOu dont have to hold down space. Just make your selection and it automatically allows you to click and drag it. in CS2. - Ruben
February 18th, 2007 at 2:44 am
hi.. this trick is not that cool coz i knew this… but there is lot of things i learned from this site.. the website is useful.
Thanx
January 18th, 2007 at 5:52 am
hello
giving a new idea to drag
If u have any new command plz mail me
thanx
raj
December 14th, 2006 at 7:28 am
nice tric
give me some more shortcut keys
December 14th, 2006 at 3:42 am
I am still waiting of Adobe cs3 pakage.
December 12th, 2006 at 7:46 am
.. and if you hold Ctrl while spacebar-dragging your selection, you will override the ‘Snap’-function and be able to move it px by px..
- This applies to Shape + Crop tool as well.
Neat.
December 8th, 2006 at 4:51 pm
Awesome! I consider myself a vary advanced p-shop user who uses a lot of shortcuts and I didn’t know about this one. Thanks!
November 18th, 2006 at 2:18 pm
I HAVE SEEN THIS …FIRST TIME…VERY NICE..
HELP…VERY USEFUL…I WILL NEVER THIS FORGET…ALWAYS REMEBER..