Comments on: 28 More Exceptionally Useful Photoshop Shortcuts

By: Abdullah

Abdullah — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 03:07:59 +0000

since these are quite a lot but there are some more that I think people use more often

Ctrl + Shift + Z to step backward
Ctrl + [ to increase brush size
Ctrl + ] to decrease brush size
Ctrl + 0 to fit document on screen
Shift + Ctrl + N to create a new layer
however, the best way to check them is Edit>Keyboard Shortcuts

Have fun

By: subject957

subject957 — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:33:20 +0000

I agree with Knittenjen, creating shortcuts for actions is invaluable. The actions (and shortcuts I’ve created for them) that I use most are ‘save for web’, convert RGB to CMYK, and Save As Jpeg. It saves a few step each to just hit the shortcut.

The other big shortcut is to create a Droplet for an action and put it on your desktop. Then you can drop an entire folder onto your Droplet, and it will perform the action to all the files in the folder. For example, you can compress all of the large files from your recent party to upload onto the web faster. You just drop in the folder and walk away, and it will automatically open Photoshop, resize and compress each photo, then save it to a specified folder. Voila!

By: Andy Morant

Andy Morant — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 06:45:12 +0000

Use the square brackets [ ] to increase or decrease current brush size. Really quick for retouching work.

By: Meau

Meau — Mon, 16 May 2011 17:23:22 +0000

My favs are Ctrl C/V and D, but I’m still looking for the shortcut for “Apply Transformation,” which I would definitely use to the max.

By: shabnam

shabnam — Sat, 07 May 2011 05:09:00 +0000

I think we all mostly use- Ctrl+A, ctrl+S, Ctrl+N..lol Also- Ctrl+D, Ctrl+Shift+I, Ctrl+J

By: Yigit

Yigit — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 16:59:01 +0000

I like “Tab” shortcut (hide toolbar and little boxes),

It’s very useful especially when you work at pc’s with narrow monitors.

And my second favorite is Ctrl + Space (zoom in/out), which makes zoom really easy..

By: Rhiannon

Rhiannon — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 03:30:23 +0000

I’m going crazy trying to remember this keyboard command:

Anyone know the command to drop the photo behind the mask so it shows up inside of it, not behind the black/grey layer?

By: ook

ook — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 04:20:08 +0000

Thanks thebulfrog!

By: thebulfrog

thebulfrog — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 17:37:11 +0000

@ook – “Is there keyboard shortcut to switch between editing a layer and editing it’s mask?”

If you’re on the layer you can click Ctrl + \ to get to the mask. I don’t know the key to switch the other way.

By: Knittinjen

Knittinjen — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 00:52:30 +0000

Ooh, wait, one other thing – all my function keys do things, because I created “actions” to do simple tasks that I do over and over like “create layers” to separate my original layer from all the effects I put on it, stroke and unstroke as I check for jaggies and missing pixels, create a drop shadow on the layer below, link and merge layers in all kinds of combinations, etc – being able to create simple actions and assign them to function keys is SO helpful, because each person can create them for their own personal tasks that take maybe 2 or 3 steps, and turn them into one-key tasks!