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PhotoShop has many many tools at your disposal, and are offering even more with every release. With all these tools at your fingertips, it is good to know the quickest way of getting to them. This is where Keyboard Shortcuts can come in very handy. At the press of one, two or three keys, you can select a tool or apply a filter without moving your mouse across the screen and clicking and finding. This tutorial is aimed at CS3 Extended, primarily, but the majority of shortcuts will be the same in older versions as well. You will learn the most common keyboard shortcuts in this article, as well as some of the lesser-known ones.
Apart from default keyboard shortcuts photoshop let's you create your own keyboard shortcuts. Let's understand this by creating a custom keyboard shortcut for applying a plastic wrap filter.
In this Adobe Photoshop tutorial, we're going to look at how to create your own custom Photoshop keyboard shortcuts, which may not sound as exciting as, say, swapping people's faces in a photo or drawing lightning bolts that shoot out of someone's eyes, but no matter what you're doing in Photoshop, being able to customize your own keyboard shortcuts is a great (and easy) way to speed up your workflow and make both you and Photoshop much more efficient.
In this Photoshop tips & tricks tutorial, we're going to look at some handy tricks and keyboard shortcuts for working with Photoshop text. We'll be looking at things like how to quickly select words, lines and paragraphs, how to easily switch between fonts, how to quickly access bold and italic font styles, leading, tracking and kerning, resizing, aligning and justifying text, and more!
When thats said, what I like to do is to add some of my own shortcuts to Photoshop, I have a lot of functions that I use often which is not attached to keys by default, so what we are going to do now is to add some shortcuts, some just for fun and others because you might need them in the future.
This photoshop tutorial is meant to teach and to be used as a reference guide for Adobe Photoshop CS3. These Keyboard shortcuts will save you time well creating any new artwork or project that you have. Since there are alot of Keyboard Shortcuts, try to remember some shortcuts that you will often use, and to save time, bookmark this page or download the PDF (Adobe Photoshop CS3 Keyboard Shortcuts ).
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We've combined the two and rounded up the essential shortcuts for working with layers! Learning these power shortcuts will not only increase your productivity, they'll also boost your confidence as you take a giant leap forward on the road to Photoshop mastery!
Buy. Download. Create. Get Adobe Photoshop now at the Adobe Store. Find Photoshop CS4 tutorials and videos on our Photoshop CS4 Tutorials Page. Try before you buy. Download any Adobe product for a free 30 day trial. Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts - Tips & Resources In this tutorial I'll show you how to use Photoshop CS and CS2 to change your keyboard shortcuts, how to save sets of customized keyboard shortcuts, and how to print out your customized sets. If you have an earlier version of Photoshop, at the end of the tutorial you'll find some helpful tips and a list of sites where you can download collections of Photoshop shortcuts in PDF form. How To Change Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts (CS & CS2 Only) To create your own shortcuts in Photoshop CS or CS2, go to the Edit Menu and select Keyboard Shortcuts. The Keyboard Shortcuts dialog box serves as a shortcut editor, and includes all the commands that support shortcuts. To modify the keyboard shortcuts you'll have to create a new keyboard shortcut set by clicking on the New Keyboard Set button (the icon to be clicked is immediately to the left of the trash can icon). You'll then be asked to name and save your shortcut set. Now select a heading from the dropdown menu on the left that says Shortcuts For. This allows you to view all of the Photoshop commands in either the Application Menus, the Palette Menus, or the Tools. Once you've selected a heading you can search through the contents to locate the command you'd like to change or create a shortcut for. Commands that already have shortcuts will be indicated in the menu. You can change these if you'd prefer by clicking on the shortcut, typing in a new shortcut, and pressing Accept at the top right side of the dialog box. To make a totally new shortcut, click on the blank space beside the menu command and type in the shortcut you'd like to use. To save it click on the Add Shortcut button. The hardest part here is finding a key combination that's not already taken. Even the Keyboard Shortcut command has a shortcut (it's Shift-Option-Command-K for Mac and Shift-Alt-Ctrl-K for Win). How To Remove Shortcuts From A Command Or A Tool Choose Edit> Keyboard Shortcuts. In the Keyboard Shortcuts dialog box, select the command or the tool name whose shortcut you want to delete, and then click Delete Shortcut. How To Delete A Set Of Shortcuts Choose Edit> Keyboard Shortcuts. In the Set pop-up menu, choose the shortcut set that you want to delete. Then click the Delete icon (...
1. Press Tab will hide tool bar and palette, Shift Tab will hide only palette. 2. Hold Shift click the top blue bar for toolbar and pallette will move them to the nearest edge. 3. Double click the top blue bar for any pallette window will minimize it. 4. Double click the grey background will bring up open file option, Hold Shift double click will open up the browser. 5. Sick of the default grey background around your image? select paint bucket, hold shift and click on the grey background will change to whatever color you have in your foreground color box. 6. In photoshop, all "Cancel" button in a window can be changed to "Reset" button by holding Alt. 7. Caps lock will switch you cursor for accuracy. 8. Press F button will switch between 3 different screen mode give you more working area. 9. To draw a straight line, click then move to the end point and hold shift click. 10. Hold Ctrl will temporary make any tool into move tool until you release Ctrl. 11. Ctrl Alt and click drag the image will make an duplication of the current image over lay on top. 12. Hold Space bar will make any tool into "Hand Tool" until you release Space bar. 13. While in Zoom Tool, Ctrl space = zoom in, alt space = zoom out. 14. Hold Ctrl and press " " or "-" will change the % for image in navigator window. 15. When Using eyedropper tool to capture foreground color, hold Alt and click will instantly capture the color for background. 16. With Measure Tool, draw a line then hold Alt and draw another line from the end of the first line will measure the angle. 17. Ctrl Alt Z and Ctrl Shift Z will go back and forth in the history. 18. Alt Backspace and Ctrl Backspace will fill in whole screen with foreground color or background color, Shift backspace will bring up option windown, Alt Shift Backspace and Ctrl Shift Backspace will fill the image with foreground or background color but will leave the alpha transparent area alone. 19. When free transform with Ctrl T, hold Alt to keep the origial image and transform an duplicated layer of it. Ctrl Shift T to repeat whatever you did in the last transform. 20. To make sure you Crop is on the edge of the image, hold Ctrl while croping. 21. Ctrl J will duplicated the current layer. 22. Ctrl Shift E will merge all visible layers to one layer, Ctrl Shift Alt E will make copy of the original and merge all visible layers. 23. While using Marquee Tools, hold Alt will make the starting point as a center of the selection. 24. Ctrl D to deselect, Ctr...
This is a list of my top 7 (or so) favorite and most used Photoshop keyboard shortcuts. Some might be obvious to you, some you might already know, and some might be new to you. Feel free to add your own below.
It is proven that by using software shortcuts can boost up productivity. Here are 30 secret Photoshop shortcuts that I've learned from years of experience. Well, what I mean by "secret" is that these shortcuts are not documented in the menus. Keep reading and you will find how these shortcuts can speed up your productivity. I bet you don't know all of them.
I will be using '+' - to define two or more keyboard combinations for example � CTRL + ALT + TAB etc.
