Photoshop 101: Easy Access to Preferences

October 30, 2007 | Posted in Photoshop |

There are tons of undocumented Photoshop shortcuts out there, lots of which can make our lives a lot easier if we only take advantage of them. I want to show you one that I use often. I would only assume that as designers, we would typically have our rulers turned on most of the time. (I’ve tested this as far back as CS1) To access your Photoshop preferences quickly, just double-click on a ruler! That’s it!

Photoshop 101: Easy Access to Photoshop Preferences

The preference pane will open in the “Units & Rulers” section, which makes sense:

Photoshop 101: Easy Access to Photoshop Preferences

For whatever reason, this does not work in Illustrator. Man, a little consistency would be nice . . .


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9 Responses to “Photoshop 101: Easy Access to Preferences”

  1. Michael Said... October 30th, 2007 at 10:15 pm

    I am not sure of the other versions of CS but you can Right Mouse Click on Illustrators (CS3) ruler to set it’s measurement value.

    Michael

  2. Jono Said... October 31st, 2007 at 9:24 am

    what about ctrl+k ? i find it quicker when you dont have to reach for the mouse…

  3. Lan Said... October 31st, 2007 at 12:22 pm

    Isn’t the hot keys list in the book? Assuming someone bought the program :X

  4. Nicole Seitler Said... October 31st, 2007 at 12:44 pm

    You are freeking kidding me! Sheesh. Thanks for the help! I’ve been using CTRL+K… with “K” being an awkward key for me to use since I’m right-handed (and the right hand is on the mouse…).

  5. PokeFan Said... October 31st, 2007 at 1:41 pm

    “Man, a little consistency would be nice . . .”

    yea, like the double click to open! That drives me crazy switching back and fourth.

  6. Gabe Said... November 1st, 2007 at 1:09 pm

    Thats cool to know, you can also do the same exact thing with the guides; if you rollover to a guide and double click it you will get the respective pane in the Preferences window.

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  8. jperez Said... January 7th, 2008 at 9:04 pm

    I wish the Right-click on the Title bar of a project window would give the contextual menu for image size etc. (like on the PC) would work on the MAC version of Photoshop.:-(
    john

  9. Kanal Temizleme Araçlari Said... March 5th, 2008 at 6:21 am

    thanks

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