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.