You don’t need to learn Photoshop all over again to work faster. You just need to know what’s hiding in plain sight. These 100 tips from PiXimperfect cover retouching, masks, layers, color, and effects, with a focus on precision and keeping your edits reversible, so you can fix things later without starting over.

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Practical Tips

Try these workflow improvements on your next editing project:

  • Hold H and drag to navigate with a bird’s-eye view, then release to return to the area you were working on.
  • Use Edit > Fade immediately after a tool action to reduce its strength without undoing the entire edit.
  • Convert layers to Smart Objects before applying filters so you can revisit and adjust filter settings later.
  • Compare close retouching with the full image by opening a second view of the same document through Window > Arrange > New Window.
  • Use layer masks and adjustment layers to keep edits reversible, and refine the mask rather than erasing pixels from the image.

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