The usage of the mouse obviously feels easier when you try to learn the listed shortcut keys, but on the contrary, once you get used to the shortcut keys, you should effortlessly be able to edit your PSD file like a professional.
Also, having the following shortcuts eases your editing workload as a professional or as a user. Let us talk about various scenarios and the following shortcuts which you can use effectively to edit your Photoshop document. The following guide - list is given sequentially considering the editing process.
Note - The following shortcut keys are common for all versions of all Photoshop.
Photoshop Shortcut Keys
Following are some of the most common Photoshop shortcuts listed according to the scenarios they are used.
- Popular shortcuts
- Function Key Shortcuts
- Shortcuts layers and objects
- Shortcuts for Fill color
- Shortcut for Saving
Popular shortcuts used in Adobe Photoshop (Common Shortcut keys)
| Short keys - Function | Windows | macOS |
| Change image size | Control + Alt + i | Command + Option + i |
| Change canvas size | Control + Alt + c | Command + Option + c |
| Zoom in | Control + + | Command + + |
| Zoom out | Control + - | Command + - |
| Scale Proportionately | Hold the shift key while selecting the object | Hold the shift key while selecting the object |
| Scale in place (from the center of the object) | Hold the shift + option while selecting the object | Hold the shift + option while selecting the object |
| Show Rulers | Control + r | Command + r |
| Show or hide the grid (the automatically-generated horizontal and vertical lines that help align objects to the canvas.) | Control + ' | Command + ' |
Function Key Shortcuts in Photoshop
| Short keys - Function | Windows | macOS |
| Start help | F1 | Help Key |
| Undo/Redo | Control + Z | F1 |
| Cut | F2 | F2 |
| Copy | F3 | F3 |
| Paste | F4 | F4 |
| Show/Hide Brush panel | F5 | F5 |
| Show/Hide Color panel | F6 | F6 |
| Show/Hide Layers panel | F7 | F7 |
| Show/Hide info panel | F8 | F8 |
| Show/Hide Actions panel | F9 | F9 |
| Show/Hide Actions panel | F10 | F10 |
| Revert | F12 | F12 |
| Fill | Shift + F5 | Shift + F5 |
| Feather Selection | Shift + F6 | Shift + F6 |
Shortcuts with layer and Object
| Short keys - Function | Windows | macOS |
| Select all objects | Control + a | Command + a |
| Deselect all objects | Control + d | Command + d |
| Select the inverse of the selected objects | Shift + Control + i | Shift + Command + i |
| Select all layers | Control + Alt + a | Command + Option + a |
| Merge all layers | Control + Shift + E | Command + Shift + e |
| Select top layer | Alt + . | Option + . |
| Select bottom layer | Alt + , | Option + , |
| Select next layer down or up | Alt + [ OR ] | Option + [ OR ] |
| Move target layer down or up | Control + [ OR ] | Command + [ OR ] |
| Move layer to the bottom or top | Control + Shift + [ OR ] | Command + Shift + [ OR ] |
| Create a new layer | Shift + Control + n | Shift + Command + n |
| Group selected layers | Control + g | Command + g |
| Ungroup selected layers | Control + Shift + g | Command + Shift + g |
| Merge and flatten selected layers | Control + e | Command + e |
| Combine all layers into a new layer on top of the other layers | Control + Shift + Alt + e | Command + Shift + Option + e |
| Transform your object (includes resizing and rotating) | Control + t | Command + t |
| Multiple Undos | Control + Alt + z | Command + Option + z |
Although working on Photoshop is fun and exciting, but the chances of photoshop documents file getting corrupted is high. Especially while working on the layer you must be very careful. A minor mistake while using these keys will corrupt the layer of images. Fortunately, there is a dedicated software that can come in handy when there is a corruption in Photoshop. Remo Repair PSD is one such professional PSD repair tool that can be very useful when you have a damaged or corrupt PSD file with you.
Shortcuts for Fill color
- Alt + Backspace: To fill with the foreground color
- Ctrl + Backspace : To fill with background-color
- Shift + Backspace: To open the file dialog box
Shortcut for Saving after Editing your PSD file
- For Save as - Control + Shift + s (Command + Shift + s)
- Save for web and devices - Control + Shift + Alt + s (Command + Shift + Option + s)
Conclusion
Hope this article helped you to learn some key Photoshop shortcuts. Do save this article it can accompany in your Photoshop learning journey and do share the word if this article helped you. Make use of comment section below to let us know if we missed out any important Photoshop shortcuts.
