From the course: Photoshop for the iPad First Look
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The touch shortcut - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop for the iPad First Look
The touch shortcut
- There is one other essential interface element that you may have noticed and by default it's down in the bottom left of the working area. And in Photoshop on the iPad, it's known as the Touch shortcut. Now at the moment, it won't do anything at all. Just tapping on it will just reveal a larger outer circle. It does nothing. But it works as a modifier for many of the tools and operations in the absence of keys like Option or Command, just for example. So, let's try it out. What we're going to do is go to the top of the toolbox and select the Move tool. And it's important to know that it's here, by the way, that you can turn these tools on and off, so you don't accidentally do anything. So, we've got the Move tool and if you press the center, you get this small bubble at the top right, which tells you what it's going to do. It will constrain the Move, so here it's behaving a bit like the Shift key. But if…
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