I saw an article today that listed 500 keyboard commands for Photoshop. A bit overwhelming for me, so here are a few of my personal favorite Photoshop keyboard commands. Saves time when you don’t have to use a mouse! (These are for the Mac – use the <control> key in place of the <command> key on the PC.
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<command> S – save (be sure you are saving under correct file name!)
<command> – A – select all
<command> T – free transform
<command> minus – zoom out
<command> plus – zoom in
<command> H – shows or hides the selection (like marching ants)
<command> Z – undo (toggles back one step, forward one step)
<command><option) Z – undo, repeats goes back through history steps
Press <space bar> to temporarily use hand tool (except for text mode)
<left bracket> – makes brush smaller
<right bracket> – makes brush larger
<shift+bracket> makes brush harder or softer
Tab – hides all panels and toolbar
<Shift + Tab> – hides all except toolbar
<control> Tab – switch between open images
Tool selection:
D – selects default colors in toolbar
F – toggles between full screen view,
G – gradient tool
J – Spot healing, patch tool, etc
L – lasso tool
M – marquee selection tool
S – stamp tools, like clone stamp
X – switches foreground color to background color
(If you hold the shift key, and press a tool selection letter,
you can “scroll” through the tool options under that toolbar button.)
Here’s a link to our upcoming workshop where we will be giving away a FREE copy of Nix Silver Efex Pro software: Black & White Photography and Silver Efex Pro from Nik Software – David Saffir instructor $79 Thursday, January 13th – 6:30pm to 9:30pm SCV Center for Photography, Santa Clarita
