You can quickly go through any layers without having to move your cursor. But this not limited to the dodging and burning layers. Now when you dodge and burn, you don't need to travel half of your screen to change from one layer to another, you can just press the button on the side of your pen to change from the dodge layer to the burn one. Just make sure to give each button a different shortcut and not twice the same. Once done, you are good to go. No need to restart Photoshop, it should work right away. You want to choose Keystroke from the drop-down list, clear the current shortcut if there is anything written in the text area, and then press either of the shortcuts mentioned above. To set the buttons on the side of the pen with these shortcuts, open up the Wacom Desktop Center, go to Pen & Button Settings and click Open Pen Settings. Then only change the settings for the two buttons Double Click and Right Click as shown on the screenshot below: By default the shortcuts are alt/option + ] to select the next layer and alt/option + [ to choose the previous layer ( Note: these shortcuts are different for every language version of Photoshop, these particular ones work for the English version and might not if you have Photoshop installed in French, Spanish, or any other language). So instead, we can set the lower button to change to the layer below and the other button to change to the layer above. Not features that are useful on a pen for retouching. There are two shortcuts: one that will select the layer above, another the layer below.Įven though keyboard shortcuts are great, the Wacom pen has two buttons that are set by default to double-click and right-click. However, there is a keyboard shortcut in Photoshop that allows you to change the layer you are working on.
Having to go from one layer to another requires me to move my cursor away from the area I am working on. Particularly for techniques such as dodge and burn, frequency separation, and masking. When using a Wacom tablet to retouch, I often feel like using any menu or tool panel disrupt my working process. Wacom Pen on Steroids With Photoshop Shortcuts The geek that I am couldn't do anything else but customize these buttons to make them switch from one layer to the other. Two buttons, two layers… you probably see where I am going with this. When dodging and burning, you usually have two layers: one for lightening and the other for darkening.
Every Wacom tablet comes with a pen that has a few buttons: one eraser on the back and two buttons on the side. Achieving great results with techniques that rely heavily on the drawing quality of the retoucher usually require a Wacom tablet.
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