Essential Photoshop shortcuts
Mastering these shortcuts will help you work smarter, save time, and graduate to true Photoshop guru level! (These are tips 14–42.)
- Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+Alt+E will merge a copy of all Layers
- F Cycle through workspace backgrounds
- X Change your foreground and background colours
- D Reset foreground and background colours to black and white
- ] and [ Change your brush tip size
- Cmd/Ctrl+J Duplicate a layer or selection
- Space Bar Hold Space and drag to navigate around the image
- TAB Hides or shows all panels and tools
- Cmd/Ctrl+T Transform a layer
- Cmd/Ctrl+E Merge selected layer down, or merges several highlighted layers
- Cmd/Ctrl/Ctrl+Shift+Opt+S Save for web & devices
- Cmd/Ctrl+L Bring up levels box
- Cmd/Ctrl+T Open Free Transform tool
- Cmd/Ctrl+M Open Curves
- Cmd/Ctrl+B Edit Colour Balance
- Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+Opt+C Scale your image to your preferred state
- Cmd/Ctrl+Opt+G Create clipping mask
- Cmd/Ctrl+0 Fit on screen
- Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+>/< Increase/decrease size of selected text by 2pts
- Cmd/Ctrl+Option+Shift->/< Increase/decrease size of selected text by 10pts
- ]/[ Increase/decrease brush size
- Shift+F5 Fill the selection
- }/{ Increase/decrease brush hardness
- ,/. previous/next brush
- </> First/last brush
- Cmd/Ctrl+] Bring layers forward
- Cmd/Ctrl+[ Send layer back
- Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+[ Send layer to bottom of stack
- Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+] Bring layer to bottom of stack
Next page: Tips for working with Layers
