Speed up Your Designing With These 50 Awesome Photoshop Shortcuts
A week ago I wrote about Essential Shortcuts for Wordpress. Which recieved a few comments and one of the comments wanted me to share my photoshop shortcuts. Well I have a good list of photoshop shortcuts memorized and some on the table attached. So I will share the ones that I know. If you know more feel free to add in the comments, and as I see them I will add it in the post. The good part about these shortcuts are that they really speeds up the designing. So if you are a designer, like me.. Or you own a Web Design Firm like me 
than you should really look into these. I will stop my rambling and begin the shortcuts.
Main Toolbar
Before you know any other shortcuts, you need to know about the Main toolbar because these will be one of the most used ones.
Marque Tool - m
Lasso Tool - l
Eraser - e
Paint Bucket - k
Move - v
Magic Wand - w
Paint Brush - b
History Brush - y
Blur - r
Pen tool - p
Type tool - t
Linear Gradient - g
Eye Dropper - i
Zoom Tool - z
Another important thing to know is to switch between the background and foreground colors use “x”
If you wish to restore the default colors then simply hit “d”
If you are looking for more space on the screen simply hit “Tab” to hide other tools.
Use “f” to switch the screen modes.
General Menu Shortcuts
These are general ones that will help you do alot of things much faster.
New - Ctrl + N
Open - Ctrl + O
Save - Ctrl + S
Save as - Ctrl + Shift + S
Close - Ctrl + W
Undo - Ctrl + Z
Copy - Ctrl + C
Cut - Ctrl + X
Paste - Ctrl + V
Free Transform - Ctrl + T
Show Ruler - Ctrl + R
Hide Ruler - Ctrl + ;
Show Grid - Ctrl + ”
Snap Grid - Ctrl + Shift + ”
Zoom In - Ctrl + +
Zoom Out - Ctrl + -
Hue / Saturation - Ctrl + U
Layers Shortcut
I call this category layer shortcuts because these are related to layers that you create when designing.
New Layer - Ctrl + Shift + N
Duplicate a Layer (Copy Layer) - Ctrl + J
Cut a Layer - Ctrl + Shift + J
Bring Layer Front - Ctrl + Shift + ]
Bring Forward - Ctrl + ]
Send Backward - Ctrl + [
Send Layer Back - Ctrl + Shift + [
Group Layers - Ctrl + G
Ungroup - Ctrl + Shift + G
Merge Layers - Ctrl + E
Select All - Ctrl + A
Deselect All - Ctrl + D
Reselect All - Ctrl + Shift + D
Feather - Ctrl + Alt + D
Inverse - Ctrl + Shift + I
Well thats the 50 photoshop shortcuts that I use very often and that were on my list. These shortcuts would speed up your designing because you will just be using your keyboards to deal with things rather than moving your mouse around all over the screen. Like I said, if you know more feel free to put them in the comment box and I will add them in the list. Feel free to digg and stumble and do all the social media love with this post 
Have fun Designing.
Hey, I am Syed Balkhi, The guy who is behind Balkhis Inc. I entered the industry back in 2002 not knowing a single thing. I barely spoke English at that time. In the past six years, my language barrier has been eliminated. Aside from English, now I also speak html, and php. Along with the languages I have also managed to master a few arts. Art of web-designing started when I first entered. Messing around with photoshop, I learned how to create my first web design. Now I founded a web designing firm Uzzz Productions. After running numerous amount of websites in various niche, I have mastered the art of web-development. Now I am compiling a resource of what I already know, and what I am learning on this blog. This resource is to help me if I ever need a guide to look back to, and it is help my fellow webmasters.
Thanks for the list of Photoshop shortcuts. I actually have them in one of my Photoshop books but the problem is that they’re not right in front of me on my computer. This will make it much easier for me.
Wonderful info as usual bro!
I am coming with a new general MMO blog, would like to get a design of yours, love the one balkhis wears right now.
You can always hire Uzzz Productions. And I am sure you are a subscriber, so if you get lucky you might be picked.
Thanks for doing this on my request Syed - U have done a lot for me lately
Great list of shortcuts! Thanks a lot for sharing - I kinda need them.
Always a pleasure Lucas
It was a request by users in the comment therefore I made it.
I am literally the most stupid person on Earth who doesn’t know how to use photoshop.
This tutorial is awesome
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I love Photoshop and have always loved shortcuts. I can get a whole lot more done using keyboard shortcuts than I can using the menus.
I also use Xara eXtreme for a lot of my graphics. It’s another awesome tool that I spend hours on. I would say that Xara is more for those that don’t have, need or want to take the time to learn Photoshop.
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