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