Degree (°) - Option + Shift + 8 (Mac) | Alt + 248 and/or Alt + 0176 (Win).Copyright (©) - Option + G (Mac) | Alt + 0169 (Win).Command + Shift + H (Mac) / Control + Shift + H (Win) sets Small Capsģ) Accessing Special Type Characters in Photoshop.Command + Shift + K (Mac) / Control + Shift + K (Win) sets All Caps.Command + Shift + I (Mac) / Control + Shift + I (Win) sets Italic.Command + Shift + B (Mac) / Control + Shift + B (Win) sets Bold.If the font doesn’t contain the style then “ Faux” styling will be applied. If a font “ family” ( Myriad or Minion for example) has a font “ style” (Bold or Italic for example), then the following keyboard shortcuts will change the Font Style. Command + Shift + L/ C/ R (Mac) | Control + Shift + L/ C/ R (Win) aligns Top/ Center/ Bottom when using the Vertical Type tool.Command + Shift + L/ C/ R (Mac) | Control + Shift + L/ C/ R (Win) aligns text Left/ Center/ Right (when using the Horizontal Type tool).Command + Return (Mac) | Control + Enter (Win) commits the text (simply clicking return/enter will add a line break).Command + Option + Shift + A (Mac) | Control + Alt + Shift + A (Win) reverts back to Auto Leading.Option + Shift (Mac) | Alt + (Win) Shift + up/ down arrow increases/decreases the baseline shift by 1.Command + Option (Mac) | Control + Alt (Win) + up/ down arrow increases/decreases leading by 5.Option (Mac) | Alt (Win) + up/ down arrow increases/decreases leading (the amount of vertical space between lines in a paragraph).Option + (Mac) | Alt + (Win) left/ right arrow key decreases/increases tracking (if greater than 2 letters are selected).Option + (Mac) | Alt + (Win) left/ right arrow key decreases/increases kerning (the amount of spacing between two characters).Command + Option + Shift + (Mac) | Control + Alt + Shift + (Win) increases/decreases point size by 5.Command + Shift + (Mac) | Control + Shift + (Win) increases/decreases point size by 1.Matt Kloskowski has a great video out showing how he uses Photo Mechanic and Lightroom together, and it's the exact same workflow that I've been using in my testing. A photo that I want to include in my portfolio. 5 star – One of the best photos I've ever taken.4 star – A photo that I consider worthy of being published.3 star – Might be an okay photo if I can do some work in Lightroom and Photoshop.2 star – It's at least a visible and not completely blurry photo, but it's not great at all.These are photos that are so badly exposed that they can't even be seen, where I bumped the shutter button and took a picture of my foot, etc. Can be deleted if I ever need to clear off space. Jim's Star Rating System for Culling Images You now have the imported and culled photos in Lightroom for editing.Drag and drop all the selected photos from Photo Mechanic onto the Lightroom icon.Do Control (Command) A to select all of the photos.Flip through the photos with ease and rate the pictures by pressing Control (Or Command on the Mac) and a number key 1-5 to give each photo a star rating.
The photos will import like LIGHTNING! I imported 100 raw photos and had full screen previews in under 9 seconds.Open Photo Mechanic and choose File > Ingest (It's their word for import.Put your SD card in the computer or card reader.Then you pass all the photos to Lightroom to continue the edit. Then use Photo Mechanic for only tagging and star rating your photos. The idea is that you import the photos from your SD card to the computer using Photo Mechanic. I've never been won over by Photo Mechanic because it costs $150 and I was concerned that it would mess up my workflow too much, but I've actually found it to be a very easy addition to my workflow. It's simply a companion app that does fast culling (sorting through photos from a shoot). Photo Mechanic is not an editing app, so it's not a replacement for Lightroom or Photoshop.
Photo Mechanic is a third party app that is primarily used by professional sports and event photographers who want to quickly import, tag, and rate photos. I've been testing out this workflow and I've actually found it to be extremely fast and simple. Dozens of you wrote back and asked how photographers can use Photo Mechanic together with Lightroom for the fastest possible workflow. Last week I published a video on the Improve Photography Youtube Channel showing that Lightroom import is 600% slower than other competitive programs.