Photoshop is an incredibly powerful tool. By learning a few shortcuts you can speed up your processes by a huge amount and ultimately spend more time making design decisions than messing with menus.
If 3D apps have taught me one things, it’s the importance of shortcut keys. I recorded a quick video tutorial showing you a few of my most commonly used Photoshop shortcut keys. Hopefully you’ll find them useful.
Photoshop Shortcut Keys
Tools
- Eyedropper – I
- Direct select – A
- Select – V
- Magic Wand – W
- Eraser – E
- Move canvas – Spacebar
- Transform – Command T
- Levels – Command L
- Curves – Command M
- Zoom in – Command +
- Zoom out – Command -
Brushes
- Brush size increase – ]
- Brush size decrease – [
Layers
- Select layer – Command click on layer
- Fill layer with foreground colour – Command delete/backspace
- Fill layer with background colour – Option delete/backspace
- Layer opacity – Number keys
- Multiply layer – Option Shift M
- Screen layer – Option Shift S
- Overlay layer – Option Shift O
- Colour dodge layer – Option Shift D
- Duplicate layer – Command J
And finally…
New favourite shortcut in Photoshop is the R key (rotate canvas), how did I not know about that one?
— Dave Ellis (@novolume) September 10, 2014