These Photoshop keyboard shortcuts are probably the most important ones you can learn – they are useful in any kind of Photoshop work and you will come back to them time and time again. If you are learning keyboard shortcuts, this is where you should start – any Photoshop Ninja should know these!
I’ve had a few comments since I’ve been writing this site about how I only ever show the Apple Mac Photoshop keyboard shortcuts – I am working on a solution to this (and update the whole site of-course, eek!). In the meantime, here are the simple differences – not too much to remember!
It can be a little frustrating sometimes when you create layer masks that by default they apply as a white filled layer mask, meaning that the layer is not effected by it. Annoyed by having to keep selecting all and filling with black… you’ll like this one then!
It is so much quicker to navigate around you image using Photoshop keyboard shortcuts, plus it looks cool when people are looking over your shoulder!
Seriously though, these are useful for any user and should be amongst the first shortcuts you learn. You will never need to reach for that zoom tool again once you have these in your shortcut arsenal!
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There are quite a few shortcuts you can use to bring up image adjustments, rather than fishing around in the Image>Adjustments menu.
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