It is without a doubt the program par excellence used by professional and amateur designers. to edit your photos or designs quickly and easily.
It is quite comfortable software and Its basic functions can be used intuitively, although it sometimes becomes difficult to play with the more advanced ones. Of course, there are many ways to make our lives easier including shortcuts that will provide us with the possibility of being able to access it more quickly.
Yes, we would save a lot of time if instead of having to select the tools with the mouse we did it with keyboard shortcuts. It is because of that we made a list with the best key combinations that will help us to use it more efficiently, both in windows like in macOS.
List of the best shortcuts and key combinations to use Photoshop with the keyboard for Windows and MacOS
As always, we seek to make life easier for you, so this time we have searched for some shortcuts and combinations that can be useful when using this program. These will be handled only with the keyboard without the need to use the mouse. Find out!
It should be noted that the Photoshop tools and actions are selected by pressing the corresponding key as you will see below. For Windows the Ctrl key will be used, corresponding in the Mac system to the Command (Cmd) key, the Windows Alt key attributes to the Option letter in Mac, (in some cases it is done with the help of the Shift key).
Let’s see next:
basic shortcuts
In this section we will find the simplest shortcuts, many of them similar to those used in Microsoft Office applications or in many other types of software:
ACTION KEY COMBINATION
Ctrl+N
Create a new document.
Ctrl+O
Open an existing document.
Ctrl+W
Easily close the current document.
Ctrl + “+”
Zoom in on the image.
Ctrl + “-“
Zoom out on the image.
Ctrl+Z
Undo the last step.
Ctrl+S
Save the file.
Ctrl + Shift + S
Save as.
“Esc”
Abort a function.
Tabulator
Hide or show the panels.
Ctrl+T
Free transformation.
Ctrl+R
Activate or deactivate the rules.
Ctrl+Tab
Scroll through open images in Photoshop.
Ctrl+A
Select all.
Ctrl + Shift + D
Deselect.
Alt + Shift + Ctrl + S
Save for web.
Alt+Ctrl+W
Close all.
Ctrl + Shift + ,
Increase the font size while having selected text.
Ctrl + Shift + .
Decrease the font size while having selected text.
Ctrl+Alt+Z
Undo some steps.
Using the function keys
The use of these keys usually similar on both Windows and MacOS except in some cases.
Below we will summarize the shortcuts based on the use of function keys:
ACTION KEY COMBINATION
F1
Activate help.
F2
Cut.
F3
Copy.
F4
Paste.
F5
brush tool.
F6
Show or hide the color panel.
F7
Show or hide layers.
F8
Show or hide the information panel.
F9
Show or hide the actions panel. (Windows).
Alt (⌥) + F9
Show or hide the actions panel. (macOS).
F12
Return.
Shift + F5
Fill out.
Shift + F6
Fade selection.
Shift + F7
Invert selection.
Tools
We can also access the most used Photoshop tools through various shortcuts that we will show below:
ACTION KEYS
h
Tool “Hand” with which we can move on the image in case we have applied zoom.
B.
Brush.
V
Pointer to move the image.
W
Magic wand.
m
rectangle frame.
C.
Cut.
AND
Eraser.
OR
Rectangle.
you
Add a text.
J
concealer brush
G.
Paint bucket.
L
Ribbon.
Yo
Dropper.
P
Pen.
R.
Rotate view.
EITHER
Sponge.
S
Cloner buffer.
z
Zoom.
/
Transparency.
{
Reduce the hardness of the brush.
}
Increase the hardness of the brush.
layers
Layers in Adobe Photoshop are a very important element, so it is essential to use the following shortcuts to work on them quickly and easily:
ACTION KEY COMBINATION
Shift+Ctrl+N
Create a new layer. (Windows).
Cmd + Shift + N
Create a new layer. (macOS).
Shift + Ctrl + Alt + N
Create the layer without showing us the dialog.
Ctrl+J
Create a layer via copy.
Shift + Ctrl + J
Create a layer via cut.
Cmd (⌘) + J
Create a layer via copy. (macOS).
Shift + Cmd (⌘) +J
Create a layer via cut. (macOS).
Ctrl+G
Group layers.
Ctrl+Shift+G
Ungroup layers.
Cmd (⌘) + G
Group layers. (macOS).
Shift + Cmd (⌘) + G
Ungroup layers. (macOS).
Ctrl+Alt+A
Select all layers.
Cmd (⌘) + Alt (⌥) +A
Select all layers. (macOS).
Ctrl+Shift+E
Merge the visible layers.
Cmd (⌘) + Shift + E
Merge the visible layers. (macOS).
Images
As we mentioned above, this is the leader for making and designing images, in this case we will show you the most necessary ones to better optimize your photos:
ACTION KEY COMBINATION
Ctrl+B
Color balance.
Ctrl+M
Curves.
Shift + Ctrl + B
Automatic colour.
Alt + Shift + Ctrl + L
Automatic contrast.
Ctrl+U
Hues and Saturation.
Ctrl+I
Invest.
Ctrl + Alt + X
Extract.
Alt + Click Image
Double.
Alt + Shift + Click image
Duplicate aligned
Ctrl+L
levels.
Ctrl + Shift + L
Automatic levels.
Shift + Ctrl + U
desaturate
filter gallery
This program allows us to use a large number of filters and at the same time offers us a preview of a large part of them. Without a doubt, this will add an extra touch to our images. But do you want to know how to do it with the keyboard?
Let’s see next:
ACTION KEY COMBINATION
Alt + Click on the selected filter
Apply a new filter above the selected one.
Alt (⌥) + Click on the selected filter
Apply a new filter above the selected one. (macOS).
Alt + Click on the triangle
Open or close the triangles.
Alt (⌥) + Click on the triangle
Open or close the triangles. (macOS).
Ctrl+Alt+F
Apply the last used filter.
Shift + Ctrl + X
Liquefy.
Alt + Shift + Ctrl + X
Motif creator.
liquefy filter
If we want to use this filter, we will also have a series of shortcuts to make our work easier:
ACTION KEYS
W
Warp forward.
R.
Rebuild.
C.
Windlass to the right.
S
Deflate.
B.
Inflate.
EITHER
Push left.
m
Reflect.
you
Turbulence.
F
Freeze mask.
D.
Thaw mask.
How to change and customize keyboard shortcuts to use Adobe Photoshop?
Of course, there are a lot of shortcuts for Photoshop functions, but sometimes there are so many that far from helping us, we tend to confuse them and become an eight. So it would be great if we could customize these shortcuts according to what we can memorize more easily, right? Well, Adobe Photoshop It also allows us to edit the different keyboard shortcuts.
This way we can configure the list of shortcuts that will help us carry out the processes more quickly and easily at our discretion or need:
- The first thing we will have to do is click on “Edit” > “Keyboard Shortcuts”.
- This will open a window with menu commands by default that the program brings.
- You will select the method you want to change clicking to open the dropdown menu.
- done this you will add the key combination you want for that action and that’s it.
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