Showing a Client Your Work on Your Computer


Any time I'm showing clients my work onscreen, I use this technique because it quickly tucks Photoshop out of the way so the palettes, menus, etc., don't distract the clients. They can focus on just the image, and not on the software I'm using. Also, it does a nice job of presenting each photo in almost a museum settingperfectly centered on a black background with no distractions.

Step One

Open the photo you want to show to your client in Photoshop.

Step Two

Press the letter F key twice and then press the Tab key. The first F centers your photo onscreen, surrounding it with gray canvas area. The second time you press F, the background changes to black, and Photoshop's menu bar is hidden. Then, when you press Tab, Photoshop hides the Toolbox, Options Bar, and any open palettes, presenting your photo onscreen.

Step Three

To return quickly to your normal display layout, just press F, then Tab. Now that you know these two shortcuts, you can use a variation of them to create a slide show right within Photoshop.

Step Four

Go under the File menu and choose Open. In the Open dialog, click on the first new photo you want to open, press-and-hold the Command key (PC: Control key), and then click on all the other photos you want to open. Note: If the images that you want to open are contiguous, simply hold the Shift key and then click on the first and last image in the Open dialog to select them all.

Step Five

Click the Open button and Photoshop will open all the photos, one right after the other. Once all the photos you want in your slide show are open, press-and-hold the Shift key and click on the Full Screen Mode icon at the bottom of the Toolbox (it's the third icon in the group of three icons along the bottom).

Step Six

Shift-clicking the Full Screen Mode icon centers all the open photos and puts them on a black background (starting with the top photo in the stack), but your palettes and Options Bar will still be visible, so press the Tab key to hide them.

Step Seven

Once your palettes are hidden, your slide show is ready. To view the next "slide," just press Control-Tab and the next photo in the stack will open. Because you held the Shift key when you switched to Full Screen Mode, the previous picture will automatically be hidden when the next photo appears. Continue through the stack by pressing Control-Tab. The slide show will automatically loop, so scroll through as many times as you'd like.

Step Eight

When you're done with your slide show and want to return to the standard Photoshop interface, press the Tab key to make the Toolbox visible again, press-and-hold the Shift key, and then click on the Standard Screen Mode icon at the bottom of the Toolbox (it's the first icon in the group of three along the bottom).



    The Photoshop CS2 Book(c) for Digital Photographers
    The Photoshop CS2 Book for Digital Photographers (Voices That Matter)
    ISBN: B002DMJUBS
    EAN: N/A
    Year: 2006
    Pages: 187
    Authors: Scott Kelby

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