34. Levels
- MAC: Cmd+L
- WINDOWS: Ctrl+L
When editing your images, you'll be using the Levels box regularly. Save yourself some time with this Photoshop shortcut.
35. Free Transform
- MAC: Cmd+T
- WINDOWS: Ctrl+T
This command opens Photoshop's Free Transform tool for resizing, rotating, and skewing an image using a draggable outline.
36. Curves
- MAC: Cmd+M
- WINDOWS: Ctrl+M
This Photoshop shortcut enables you to quickly edit the Curves on an image.
37. Colour Balance
- MAC: Cmd+B
- WINDOWS: Ctrl+B
This is the perfect Photoshop shortcut to edit the Colour Balance of your images.
38. Hue/Saturation
- MAC: Cmd+U
- WINDOWS: Ctrl+U
These two powerful Photoshop tools will aid you in the colour balance battle, and decrease the amount of crossover.
39. Desaturate
- MAC: Cmd+Shift+U
- WINDOWS: Ctrl+Shift+U
Convert your colour image to grayscale values, leaving the image in the same colour mode.
40. Quick image fixes
Auto Tone
- MAC: Shift+Cmd+L
- WINDOWS: Shift+Ctrl+L
Auto Contrast
- MAC: Opt+Shift+Cmd+L
- WINDOWS: Alt+Shift+Ctrl+L
Auto Color
- MAC: Shift+Cmd+B
- WINDOWS: Shift+Ctrl+B
After a quick fix for a photo? While they're not reliable cure-alls, these tools are usually worth a go for automatically improving your images.
41. Lens correction
- MAC: Shift+Cmd+R
- WINDOWS: Shift+Ctrl+R
The camera always lies, particularly where lens distortion is involved. Use the lens correction filter to reduce the effect of barrel distortion, pincushion distortion and vignetting.
42. Adaptive Wide Angle
- MAC: Opt+Shift+Cmd+A
- WINDOWS: Opt+Shift+Ctrl+A
Wide-angle lenses can bring their own particular distortions, and Photoshop has a filter for this. The Adaptive Wide Angle filter can quickly straighten lines that appear curved in panoramas, or photos taken with fish-eye and wide-angle lenses.
43. Camera Raw Filter
- MAC: Shift+Cmd+A
- WINDOWS: Shift+Ctrl+A
With older versions of Photoshop you have to run Adobe Camera Raw as a separate program. But in Photoshop CC it's available as a filter, enabling you to non-destructively apply sophisticated adjustments to any image type.
44. Content Aware Scale
- MAC: Cmd+Shift+Opt+C
- WINDOWS: Ctrl+Shift+Alt+C
Scale your image to your preferred state with this super-quick Photoshop shortcut.
45. Content-Aware Move
- MAC AND WINDOWS: Shift+J
The latest content-aware tool in Photoshop CC enables you to move objects around in a photograph, and it'll intelligently fill in the gaps where they used to be.
46. Create clipping mask
- MAC: Cmd+Opt+G
- WINDOWS: Ctrl+Alt+G
A great way to keep shadows and shading where they belong, the clipping mask tool is basic but useful.
47. Blending modes
- MAC: Shift++ or -
- WINDOWS: Shift++ or -
Photoshop has a variety of blending modes to create cool effects. Use this command to cycle through each.
48. Black and white dialogue box
- MAC: Shift+Cmd+Opt+B
- WINDOWS: Shift+Ctrl+Alt+B
Speed up the process of converting colour photos to black and white with this Photoshop shortcut, which opens the black and white adjustment dialogue box.
49. Change image size
- MAC: Cmd+Opt+i
- WINDOWS: Ctrl+Alt+i
Set up your image sizes with ease with this quick and simple shortcut.
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