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Most Important 20 Photoshop Shortcuts
1. “Learning Photoshop The Simplest Way”
20 Photoshop Shortcut Tips
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2. Most professional image manipulators admit the importance of Photoshop program of Adobe Systems.
But using all the tools manually using mouse seems to be time consuming for them. It slows down the
work flow. So they take the help of keyboard short-cuts that make their work highly efficient.
20 most Important Photoshop Shortcuts
3. When an image editor needs to fill an empty layer with any specific color he may take the
help of a nice short way and this is to press Alt+Delete on the foreground and Ctrl+Delete on
the background.
Fill a Layer
4. At times the working professional want to flatten the layers. After adding a new, empty layer there lies
the necessity of flatten those. To do it one can take the easy way of pressing Ctrl+Alt+Shift+E
5. Another thing is that many a times designers want to create a single layer comprising all other
layers created before. But this work may be a difficult job by clicking mouse buttons. Easy way of
this is pressing Ctrl, Shift and E altogether.
6. in the case of the need for a new layer one can just press Ctrl+J and the target is fulfilled. It’s so easy
in this way and gives one the chance for continuous working.
7. Not all layers are equally important for the work. On the other hand some are highly preferred that
they are needed to be on the top of other layers. So just one thing that the designer needs to do is to
press Ctrl+Shift+]
8. In the same way of taking layer at the bottom a designer can take that at the bottom as well. For that he
has to do nothing special but the same thing apar from the third bracket. He must press Ctrl+Shift+[.
9. A small work of Photoshop is to bring any selected layer forward. But if you are working on
keyboard, you don’t need to touch the mouse. Rather, only pressing Ctrl+] will make your work
done.
10. As it may seem to be of necessity to move the layer back to the others, it can be also done with a
quicker way by taping the key board short cut Ctrl+[
11. Copying multiple layers is a usual work for any image manipulator. For doing this drawing a selection
must be done and then use the command of Shift+Ctrl+C to take every layer into the clipping, rather
than taking only the current layer selection.
12. In case of accidental moving away from reselection one can easily be back from there using a nice
keyboard short cut. He has to press Ctrl+Shift+D. By this means the earlier selection will be back.
13. Sometimes the professionals need to select objects around an already pre-selected image. This mainly
helps to work on the main focused part without loosing the remaing parts of it.
14. Manipulating the overall image needs the total selection. But if one is thinking it by mouch it may
haper the regular work flow. But there is a solution for it. He can press Ctrl+Alt+A.
15. If someone want to select the last ever layer of his project, a small technique can be proved very handy
for him. Alt+Comma(,) will select the bottom layer within just the time of taping the buttons.
16. In the same way of selecting bottom layer, selecting the top layer is also possible within very short time
and in a convenient manner. For this the designer has to just press Alt+Period(.). It will immediately
select the upmost layer.
17. Provided that one needs to deselect certain part of the image, one easy way can be hitting the keys
Alt+drag.
18. Professional designers know the importance of deselecting all but a certain part. For doing it he may
take the help of the easy way of clicking Shift+Alt+drag.
19. When getting away from the image is necessary, a nice way is arranged for the professionals in
Photoshop. They can just hit Ctrl+D to satisfy their need.
20. One difficult activity that Photoshop experts regularly experience is that pasting a layer or selection
into a Photoshop image. In such cases finding the sizing handles becomes a tough job. The command
of hitting Ctrl+T and then Ctrl+O selects Transform and fits the image inside the window.
21. If any designer wants to move a selected part easily he just needs to press and hold the space bar and
keep on doing so until the selected part reaches to the place that it is intended to reach. So the shortcut
for it is Spacebar+Marquee Tool.
22. Selecting with Photoshop Channels is a wonderful way of work in this program. It makes a complex
object removed from the background. Though there is several other ways by which the same job can be
accomplished, it is much easier. And using the shortcut of Ctrl+3(red), 4(green), 5(blue) makes it even
simpler.