Summary of Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts for Designers
As we are designing your Pop Up Display Stand, Roll Up Banner Stand or any other poster or banner design, we often utilise keyboard shortcuts to optimise our lead time. As such we have collected a list of commonly used photoshop shortcuts (for window and mac) and decided to sum them all up in this post. For all new graphic designers this post will help you a lot, and for all the experienced designers, this can serve as a gentle reminder.
Selection
Select All – Ctrl+A/Cmd
Deselect – Ctrl+D/ Cmd
Invert Selection – Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+I
Reselect – Ctrl+Shift+D/Cmd
Modify Selections
To Add – Shift+Click
To Subtract – Option/Alt+Click
To Intersect – Option/Alt+Shift+Click
To Feather – Shift+F6
To Refine Edge – Cntrl/Cmd + Option/Alt+R
Change Selected Layer(s) Blending Mode:
Normal – Alt/Option+Shift+N
Dissolve – Alt/Option+Shift+I
Darken – Alt/Option+Shift+K
Multiply – Alt/Option+Shift+M
Colour Burn – Alt/Option+Shift+B
Linear Burn – Alt/Option+Shift+A
Lighten – Alt/Option+Shift+G
Screen – Alt/Option+Shift+S
Colour Dodge – Alt/Option+Shift+D
Linear Dodge – Alt/Option+Shift+W
Overlay – Alt/Option+Shift+O
Soft Light – Alt/Option+Shift+F
Hard Light – Alt/Option+Shift+H
Vivid Light – Alt/Option+Shift+V
Linear Light – Alt/Option+Shift+J
Pin Light – Alt/Option+Shift+Z
Hard Mix – Alt/Option+Shift+L
Difference – Alt/Option+Shift+E
Exclusion – Alt/Option+Shift+X
Hue – Alt/Option+Shift+U
Saturation – Alt/Option+Shift+T
Colour – Alt/Option+Shift+C
Luminosity – Alt/Option+Shift+Y
Layers
Selection based on layer’s Content – Ctrl/Cmd+Click on layer’s thumbnail
Selection of all layers – Ctrl/Cmd+Option/Alt+A
Clipping mask – Option/Alt+Click between two layers
Group layers – Ctrl/Cmd+G
Ungroup layers – Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+G
Moving layers up/down in a layer stack – Ctrl/Cmd+[/]
Sending layers to front/back in a layer stack – Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+[/]
Select next layer – Option/Alt+[/]
Show only selected layer – Option/Alt+click layer’s “eye icon”
Create a new layer – Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+N
Merge all layer – Ctrl/Cmd+Option/Alt+Shift+E
Change opacity for selected layer – 0-9 (tool selected has to be without opacity controls)
Drawing
Increase/decrease brush size – Ctrl/Cmd+Option/Alt+Click and drag to left/right
Increase/decrease brush hardness – Ctrl/Cmd+Option/Alt+Click and drag to top/bottom
Cycle through brush tips – [/]
Drawing perfect circles and squares – Shift+Drag to draw
Drawing from the center – Hold Option/Alt+Drag to draw
Draw perfect vertical and horizontal lines – Hold Shift+Drag to draw
Heads Up Display (HUD) Colour Picker – Ctrl/Cmd+Option/Alt+Shift/Ctrl+click and hold with Brush Tool
Eyedropper – Hold Option/Alt while drawing with Brush Tool
Fill with foreground colour – Option/Alt+Backspace
Fill with backgound colour – Cmd/Ctrl+Backspace
Fill dialog box – Shift+Backspace
Change opacity of drawing tool – 0-9
Change flow of drawing tool – Shift+0-9
View Options
Fit Screen – Ctrl/Cmd+0
Mask View – Option/Alt+click on layer mask
Bird’s Eye View – Press and hold H
Scrubby Zoom – Hold Z + Click and drag left or right
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