Keyboard Shortcuts for Photoshop
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Essentials
- Free Transform ⌘ T
- Default Foreground/Background colors D
- Switch Foreground/Background colors X
- New layer via copy ⌘ J
- New layer via cut ⇧ ⌘ J
- Close all open documents other than the current document ⌘ ⌥ P
- Cancel any modal dialog window (including the Start Workspace) ⎋
- Select the first edit field of the toolbar ↩
- Navigate between fields ⇥
- Navigate between fields in the opposite direction ⇥ ⇧
- Change Cancel to Reset ⌥
- Toggle Standard/Quick Mask modes Q
- Toggle Preserve Transparency /
Tools I
- Move tool V
- Marquee tool M
- Lasso tool L
- Magic Wand tool W
- Crop tool C
- Eyedropper tool I
Tools II
- Healing Brush tool J
- Brush tool B
- Clone Stamp tool S
- History Brush tool Y
- Eraser tool E
- Gradient tool G
- Dodge tool O
Tools III
- Pen tool P
- Type tool T
- Selection tool A
- Shape tool U
- Hand tool H
- Rotate View tool R
- Zoom tool Z
Layers
- New layer ⌘ ⇧ N
- New layer via copy ⌘ J
- New layer via cut ⇧ ⌘ J
- Group layers ⌘ G
- Ungroup layers ⌘ ⇧ G
- Create/release clipping mask ⌘ ⌥ G
- Merge visible layers ⌘ ⇧ E
- Move target layer up ⌘ ]
- Merge a copy of all visible layers into target layer ⌘ ⇧ ⌥ E
- Merge layers ⌘ E
- Move layer to top ⌘ {
- Move layer to bottom ⌘ }
- Toggle lock transparency for target layer, or last applied lock /
Select Layers
- Select all layers ⌘ ⌥ A
- Select top layer ⌥ .
- Select bottom layer ⌥ ,
- Add to layer selection in Layers panel ⇧ ⌥ [
- Select next layer down ⌥ [
Brushes
- Previous Brush ,
- Next Brush .
- First Brush <
- Last Brush >
- Decrease Brush Size [
- Increase Brush Size ]
- Decrease Brush Hardness {
- Increase Brush Hardness }
- Rotate the brush tip anti-clockwise ⇧ ←
- Rotate the brush tip clockwise ⇧ →
View Images
- Cycle through open documents ⌃ ⇥
- Switch to previous document ⇧ ⌘ `
- Close a file and open Bridge ⇧ ⌘ W
- Toggle Standard & Quick Mask mode Q
- Toggle forward between screen modes F
- Toggle backward between screen modes ⇧ F
- Magnify 100% ⌘ 1
- Switch to Hand tool (when not in text-edit mode) ␣
- Switch to Zoom In tool ⌘ ␣
- Switch to Zoom Out tool ⌥ ␣
- Scroll up 1 screen ⇞
- Scroll down 1 screen ⇟
- Scroll up 10 units ⇧ ⇞
- Scroll down 10 units ⇧ ⇟
- Toggle layer mask on/off \
Curves
- Open the Curves dialog box ⌘ M
- Select next point on the curve +
- Select the previous point on the curve -
- Deselect a point ⌘ D
- Delete a point on the curve ⌫
Transform Selections
- Apply ↩
- Cancel ⎋
- Free transform with duplicate data ⌘ ⌥ T
- Transform again with duplicate data ⌘ ⇧ ⌥ T
Painting
- Select foreground color with Eyedropper tool ⌥
- Set flow for painting mode to 50% ⇧ 5
- Cycle through blending modes ⇧ +
- Open Fill dialog box ⌫
- Fill with foreground or background color ⌥ ⌫
- Fill from history ⌘ ⌥ ⌫
- Displays Fill dialog box ⇧ ⌫
- Lock transparent pixels on/off /
Blending Modes I
- Cycle through blending modes ⇧ +
- Normal ⇧ ⌥ N
- Dissolve ⇧ ⌥ I
- Behind ⇧ ⌥ Q
- Clear ⇧ ⌥ R
- Darken ⇧ ⌥ K
- Multiply ⇧ ⌥ M
- Color Burn ⇧ ⌥ B
- Linear Burn ⇧ ⌥ A
Blending Modes II
- Lighten ⇧ ⌥ G
- Screen ⇧ ⌥ S
- Color Dodge ⇧ ⌥ D
- Linear Dodge ⇧ ⌥ W
- Overlay ⇧ ⌥ O
- Soft Light ⇧ ⌥ F
- Hard Light ⇧ ⌥ H
- Vivid Light ⇧ ⌥ V
- Linear Light ⇧ ⌥ J
Blending Modes III
- Pin Light ⇧ ⌥ Z
- Hard Mix ⇧ ⌥ L
- Difference ⇧ ⌥ E
- Exclusion ⇧ ⌥ X
- Hue ⇧ ⌥ U
- Saturation ⇧ ⌥ T
- Color ⇧ ⌥ C
- Luminosity ⇧ ⌥ Y
Format Type
- Align left ⌘ ⇧ L
- Align center ⌘ ⇧ C
- Align right ⌘ ⇧ R
- Choose 100% horizontal scale ⌘ ⇧ X
- Choose 100% vertical scale ⌘ ⇧ ⌥ X
- Choose Auto leading ⌘ ⇧ ⌥ A
- Choose 0 for tracking ⌘ ⌃ ⇧ Q
- Justify paragraph, left aligns last line ⌘ ⇧ J
- Justify paragraph, justifies all ⌘ ⇧ F
- Toggle paragraph hyphenation ⌘ ⌃ ⇧ ⌥ H
- Toggle single/every-line composer on/off ⌘ ⇧ ⌥ T
- Increase type size of selected text ⌘ ⇧ >
- Increase leading ⌥ ↑
- Decrease baseline shift ⇧ ⌥ ↓
- Decrease kerning ⌥ ←
Puppet Warp
- Cancel completely ⎋
- Undo last pin adjustment ⌘ Z
- Select all pins ⌘ A
- Deselect all pins ⌘ D
- Temporarily hide pins H
Refine Edge
- Open the Refine Edge dialog box ⌘ ⌥ R
- Cycle forward through preview modes F
- Cycle backward through preview modes ⇧ F
- Toggle between original image & selection preview X
- Toggle between original selection & refined version P
- Toggle radius preview J
- Toggle between Refine Radius & Erase Refinements tools ⇧ E
Filter Gallery
- Reapply last-used filter ⌃ ⌘ F
- Change Cancel button to Default ⌘
- Change Cancel button to Reset ⌥
- Undo/Redo ⌘ Z
- Step forward ⌘ ⇧ Z
- Step backward ⌘ ⌥ Z
Liquify Filter
- Forward Warp tool W
- Reconstruct tool R
- Twirl Clockwise tool C
- Pucker tool S
- Bloat tool B
- Push Left tool O
- Mirror tool M
- Turbulence tool T
- Freeze Mask tool F
- Thaw Mask tool D
- Cycle through controls on right from top ⇥
- Cycle through controls on right from bottom ⇧ ⇥
- Change Cancel to Reset ⌥
Vanishing Point
- Zoom 2x (temporary) X
- Zoom in = +
- Zoom out ⌘ -
- Fit in view ⌘ 0
- Deselect all ⌘ D
- Hide selection and planes ⌘ H
- Move selection 1 pixel left ←
- Move selection 10 pixels right ⇧ →
- Repeat last duplicate and move ⌘ ⇧ T
- Constrain selection to a 15° rotation ⌥ ⇧
- Delete last node while creating plane ⌫
Black-and-White Dialog
- Open the Black-and-White dialog box ⇧ ⌘ ⌥ B
- Increase selected value by 1% ↑
- Decrease selected value by 10% ↓
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