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Essential Photoshop edit shortcuts



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!

These are all accessible from menus, but it is so much quicker to use keyboard shortcuts that once you have started learning and using them you won’t look back!

Command+Z = Undo
Shift+Command+Z = Step forward through history
Option+Command+Z = Step backward through history
Shift+Command+F = Fade previous action
Command+C = Copy
Shift+Command+C = Copy merged layers (have any visible layer selected)
Command+V = Paste
Shift+Command+V = Paste Into
Shift+F5 = Fill
Shift+Backspace = Fill (brings up fill dialogue, very useful!)
Command+T = Free Transform
Shift+Command+T = Transform again

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  1. Comment by good quality

    March 4, 2009 @ 2:16 am

    well said, finally a good report on this stuff

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