PS SHORTCUTS

Did you know that using the short-cuts in PSE can help to reduce the amount of time spent creating your layout’s, that has to be good yes, because this means you get more layout’s created in shorter amount of time. Here you can learn all about short-cuts, print yourself a list and keep by the side of your pc and it won’t be long before you know them all of by heart making your work quicker.

A short cut is a special key combination that causes a specific command to be executed. Typically, short cut keys combine the Ctrl or Alt keys with one or more other keys. An example of one that many people use on a regular basis is Ctrl+C - the short cut key to copy.

Photoshop and Photoshop Elements also come with many built-in short-cuts that help make the tasks you do on a regular basis much quicker. Below is a list of the most popular short-cuts. Please keep in mind that these are listed as Windows short-cuts. If you are on a Mac you will substitute Cmd for Ctrl.

New File ctrl n Open file ctrl o Close file ctrl w Save file ctrl s Save file as shift ctrl s Print file ctrl p Step backward (undo) ctrl z Step forward (redo) ctrl y Free transform ctrl t Apply transform Enter Copy selection ctrl c Paste selection as new layer ctrl v Image size alt ctrl i Swap background/foreground color x Repeat last filter used ctrl f Adjust hue/saturation ctrl u Show/hide ruler shift ctrl r New layer shift ctrl n Copy layer ctrl j Group layers ctrl g Ungroup layers shift ctrl g Merge layers ctrl e Select all ctrl a Deselect ctrl d Invert selection shift ctrli Zoom in ctrl + Zoom out ctrl - Fit on screen ctrl 0 Fill with background color ctrl backspace  Increase brush size ] Decrease brush size [ Increase brush hardness shift ] Decrease brush hardness shift [