If you are a photoshop designer, then you must aware about the importance of photoshop shortcut keys or commands that can help you a lot to complete designing projects much faster. There are many basic and advanced tools available in photoshop to use and it is essential for every photoshop designer make them excel with usage of shortcut keys of every basic and advance tool sets. So let’s get start learning some most important photoshop shortcut keys that you can remember in your mind to save your time and speed up your projects workflow.
- Selections & Guides Hiding Control:
Guide tool help you to align and control different shapes, selection areas and slices within psd files and this guide tool will help designers to perfectly position images and photoshop elements that can sometimes get very messy during your task. You can easily toggle between to show or hide of all your guides and current active selections by pressing ctrl+H that permits the designer to check their design work positioning without any drag & drop of elements.
- Perform Undo Redo Actions:
Almost all photoshop designers must aware about this fact that pressing Ctrl+Z keys perform the undo action of last step but on the other hand pressing Ctrl+Alt+Z actually go beyond the last step of action performed, i.e you can do unlimited steps in redo action.
- Paste Special Feature:
By using the keys Ctrl+V, it pastes any object or element that you copied recently from one place to other within a photoshop design sheets but if you press Ctrl+Shift+V, allows you to paste any object to the exact same place from where it has copied from.
- Brush Shortcut Keys:
Below mention shortcut keys are most commonly used while designing work.
- By pressing [ – decreases the brush size
- By pressing ] – increases the brush size
- By pressing Shift + [ – decreases the brush intensity by 25%
- By pressing Shift + ] – increases the brush intensity by 25%
- Opacity Tool:
This opacity tool is mostly used by photoshop web designers to apply opacity effects over different elements for effective design look. By hitting number keys from 0 to 9, changes the opacity of any layer and object in worksheet. For example, by pressing key 3 will apply 30% of opacity but if you press first 4 and then 5 will provide 45% of opacity.
- Photoshop Layer Shortcut Keys:
Layers are very important part of photoshop because all design related work has done on these layers and you can create a new layer by hitting Ctrl+Shift+N and it will generate a new layer in layers panel window. If you want any layer to be set on top position of layers, then just press Ctrl+Shift+J and this will allow you to bring your preferred layer on the top. To set any layer at bottom position, then you will have to press Ctrl+Shift+[ and you can also move forward and backward layer by pressing Ctrl+] (for forward movement of layer) and Ctrl+[ (for backward movement of layer). For selection of all layers in layers window, press Ctrl+Alt+A.
- Reselection Tool:
For reselection of any object or element throughout any layer with marquee or quick selection tool, then just click Ctrl+Shift+D that will work quickly for quick selection. You can also undo or reverse your selection by pressing Ctrl+Shift+I.
- Zoom In / Zoom Out Tool:
To perform zoom in or zoom out functionality on any object of layer, then you will have to press Ctrl + (for zoom in) and Ctrl – (for zoom out).
- Look For History Work:
If you want to look inside your history or previous work which you have been doing and get back to that moment of work, all you will have to do is to use Ctrl+Y key to go back to the history files.
- Navigation In Current Layer:
There are so many events frequently happened when any designer want to move inside layer i.e. up and down during their photoshop design project, so in that situation you just have to hold down the spacebar key along with pressing left mouse button to move inside the layer.
- Display All Keyboard Commands:
Last but least, this will surely be amaze you to know that by clicking or pressing Ctrl+Alt+Shift+K, all keyboard shortcuts will appear on the screen. This will help you a lot in the moment when you feel you have not remembered any shortcut command of photoshop or someone who want to memorize all these commands.
Hope you love reading this blog article on photoshop shortcut key commands and like to implement all these commands in your design project.
