This program is full of tools and functions to edit and retouch the photos we want. All these tools and functions are distributed between the program's toolbars, menus and other hidden sections within the main interface.
Therefore, unless we use the application daily and know all its secrets, we may have trouble finding some functions. Luckily, thanks to keyboard shortcuts, it is possible to use Photoshop more quickly and easily, like a professional.
Photoshop has keyboard shortcuts for virtually any function or tool of the program. It is practically impossible to collect all the keyboard shortcuts offered by this tool in a single article. In addition, no user will know them all by heart, since nobody uses all the tools offered by Photoshop at the same time.
Therefore, in this article we will collect the most important and useful keyboard shortcuts for Photoshop, shortcuts that any user of this tool should know and that will make it easier to work with this tool.
Essential keyboard shortcuts for Photoshop
We will divide the Photoshop keyboard shortcuts into several categories according to their purpose so that each user can easily find the most useful keyboard shortcuts on a day-to-day basis.
General keyboard shortcuts for Photoshop
These keyboard shortcuts are essential to move through the main Photoshop window and work with the new documents or files we create.
- Create new file: Control + N
- Open a file: Control + O
- Close the open file: Control + W
- Close all files: Control + Alt + W
- Save: Control + S
- Save as: Control + Shift + S
- Print: Control + P
- Open configuration: Control + K
- Exit Photoshop: Control + Q
Most important keyboard shortcuts for editing, image and layers
These shortcuts will allow us to work a little more inside the content, being able to control the elements and layers within any editing environment that we have open.
- Copy: Control + C
- Paste: Control + V
- Cut: Control + X
- Undo: Control + Z
- Redo: Control + Shift + Z
- Fill: Shift + F5
- Free transformation: Control + T
- Proportional scale: Press shift while in "free transformation" mode.
- Adjust image size: Control + Alt - I
- Adjust canvas size: Control + Alt + C
- New layer: Control + Shift + N
- Select all: Control + A
- Deselect: Control + D
- Reverse selection: Control + Shift + I
- Increase: Control + +
- Reduce: Control + -
- 100% Size: Control + 1
- Fit to screen: Control + 0
- Show rules: Control + R
- Show grid: Control + ‘
- Guides: Control +,
- Rotate image: Press R, click and move the mouse.
- Rotate image of 15 degrees in 15 degrees: Press R + Shift and click with the mouse and move it.
Access to tools
These keyboard shortcuts will allow us to quickly access any of the tools we can find within Photoshop. This will save us having to look for them within the menu bars.
- Move: V
- Select: M
- Loop (normal, polygonal and magnetic): L
- Quick selection / Wand: W
- Trimming and selector: C
- Dropper: I
- Rule and note: I
- Concealer brush, patch and red eyes: J
- Brush and pencil: B
- Clone Buffer: S
- Rubber / Magic rubber: E
- Gradient / Paint Bucket: G
- Feather: P
- Text tool: T
How to create our own keyboard shortcuts in Photoshop
In addition to all the keyboard shortcuts we have just seen, Adobe Photoshop allows us to edit any of the application's keyboard shortcuts. In addition, we can also assign a custom keyboard shortcut for each function we want. In this way, if one of the functions we use often does not have its own default keyboard shortcut, we can create our own.
To do this, what we must do is go to the edit menu> Keyboard shortcuts (or, taking advantage, with the keyboard shortcut Control + Shift + Alt + K) and we can see a window like the following.
As we can see, in this section we will find all the menus and all the tools that we can find in this application. In addition, we will also be able to switch between categories from the "Shortcuts for" sliding menu, being able to select the application menus, panels or tools.
If we click on any of the entries that appear here we will be able to change the default keyboard shortcut for the one we want to use ourselves. In addition, we can also remove the keyboard shortcut in question and even return to its default value
Date update on 2019-10-14. Date published on 2019-10-14. Category: Photoshop Author: Oscar olg Fuente: softzone