Keyboard shortcuts are the best way to speed up and increase productivity for any task, as they limit your time spent opening things. These Adobe Photoshop shortcuts will literally make your workflow easy.
You might have been using shortcut keys for your daily windows task but here we will see a better way to task your Photoshop workflow.
You may use Photoshop daily or sometimes but after utilizing these shortcuts you will be working more efficiently at your workflow.
Maybe you are doing the same things that I was doing before knowing these shortcuts like you find a tool and click it with a mouse. How good it would be if there is a shortcut key that exists for a particular task. First, this will seem hard but after utilizing you will find it very easy work.
By pressing a few keys as Photoshop shortcuts keys you can select tools, manipulating images, and can even adjust your project’s canvas. All of these shortcut keys will effectively run on both Windows and Mac systems but for some shortcut keys, it could be different. Whereby Mac has a command key and Windows has a CTRL-key.
I assure you that after this article you won’t need to search Adobe Photoshop shortcuts.
Adobe Photoshop Shortcuts
Basic shortcuts:
1. Zoom In
CTRL + + (for Windows)
Command + + (for Mac)
2. Zoom out
CTRL + + (for Windows)
Command + + (for Mac)
3. To change image size
Control + Alt+ i (for Windows)
Command + Option + i (for Mac)
4. To change canvas size
Control + Alt+ c (for Windows)
(Command + Option + c ) (for Mac)
5. To save work in .psd
Control + S (for Windows)
Command + S (for Mac)
6. To save as
Control + Alt + S (for Windows)
Command + Option + S (for Mac)
7. To save for web and devices
Control + Shift + Alt + s (for Windows)
Command + Shift + Option + s (for Mac)
8. To create new .psd file
Control + N (for Windows)
Command + N (for Mac)
9. To open existing .psd file
Control + O (for Windows)
Command + O (for Mac)
10. To browse local .psd file
Shft+Ctrl+O (for Windows)
Shft+Ctrl+O (for Mac)
11. Open as
Alt+Shift+Control+O (for Windows)
Option + Shift + Command + O (for Mac)
12. For .psd file info
Option+Shft+Control+I (for Windows)
Option+Shft+Command+I (for Windows)
13. Undo/Redo
Control+Z (for Windows)
Command+Z (for Mac)
14. Step Forward
Shift + Control + Z (for Windows)
Shift+ Command + Z (for Mac)
15. Step Backword
Alt+Control+Z (for Windows)
Option+ Command + Z (for Mac)
16. Copy
Control + C (for Windows)
Command + C (for Mac)
17. Cut
Control + X (for Windows)
Command + X (for Mac)
18. Paste
Control + V (for Windows)
Command + V (for Mac)
19. Color Setting
Shift + Control + K (for Windows)
Shift + Command + K (for Mac)
20. Auto color
Shift + Control + B (for Windows)
Shift + Command + B (for Mac)
Shortcuts for select:
21. Bring forword to selected layers
Control + J (for Windows)
Command + J (for Mac)
21. Bring forword to selected layers
Control + J (for Windows)
Command + J (for Mac)
22. Select all
Control + A (for Windows)
Command + A (for Mac)
23. Deselect
Control + D (for Windows)
Command + D (for Mac)
24. Reselect
Shift + Control + D (for Windows)
Shift + Command + D (for Mac)
25. Reposition a layer
Spacebar + drag (for Windows and Mac)
Shortcuts for tools:
26. V = Pointer
27. W = Magic Wind
28. M = Rectangular Marquee,
29. L= Lasso
30 I = Eyedropper
31. C = Crop
32. E = Eraser
33. U = Rectangle
34. T = Horizontal Type
35. B = Brush
36. Y = History Brush
38. J = Spot Healing Brush
39. G = Gradient
40. a = Path Selection
41. H = Hand
42. R = Rotate View
43. P = Pen
44. S = Clone Stamp
45. O = Dodge
46. z = Zoom Tool
47. D = Default Foreground and Background Colors
48. X = Switch Foreground and Background Colors
49. Q = Edit in Quick Mask Mode
50. X = Change Screen Mode
Shortcuts for layer:
51. Create a new layer
Shift + Control + n (for Windows)
Shift + Command + n (for Mac)
52. Select all layers
ALT+ Control + A (for Windows)
ALT + Command + A (for Mac)
53. Merge all layers
Control + Shift + E (for Windows)
Command + Shift + e (for Mac)
54. Select top layers
Alt + . (for Windows)
(Option + .) (for Mac)
55. Select bottom layers
Alt + , (for Windows)
Option + , (for Mac)
So these are all useful Adobe Photoshop Shortcuts.
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