Adobe Photoshop CS4 - Manual (Page 22)

15 USING PHOTOSHOP CS4
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Last updated 1/10/2010
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“ About scrubby sliders ” on page 15
About pop-up sliders
Some panels, dialog boxes, and options bars contain settings that use pop-up sliders (for example, the Opacity option
in the Layers panel). If there is a triangle next to the text box, you can activate the pop-up slider by clicking the triangle.
Position the pointer over the triangle next to the setting, hold down the mouse button, and drag the slider or angle
radius to the desired value. Click outside the slider box or press Enter to close the slider box. To cancel changes, press
the Esc key.
To increase or decrease values in 10% increments when the pop-up slider box is open, hold down Shift and press the
Up Arrow or Down Arrow key.
Using different kinds of pop-up sliders
A. Click to open pop-up slider box. B. Drag slider or angle radius.
You can also “scrub” some pop-up sliders. For example, if you hold the pointer over the word “Fill” or “Opacity” in
the Layers panel, the pointer changes to the Hand icon. Then you can move the pointer left or right to change the fill
or opacity percentage.
About scrubby sliders
In some panels, dialog boxes, and options bars, you can drag scrubby sliders to change option values. Scrubby sliders
are hidden until you position the pointer over the title of sliders and pop-up sliders. When the pointer changes to a
pointing finger, you drag to the left or right. Holding down the Shift key while dragging accelerates the scrubbing by
a factor of 10.
Hovering over the title of a slider or pop-up slider shows the scrubby slider
Working with pop-up panels
Pop-up panels provide easy access to available options for brushes, swatches, gradients, styles, patterns, contours, and
shapes. You can customize pop-up panels by renaming and deleting items and by loading, saving, and replacing
libraries. You
can also change the display of a pop-up panel to view items by their names, as thumbnail icons, or with
both names and icons.
Click a tool thumbnail in the options bar to show its pop-up panel. Click an item in the pop-up panel to select it.
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