PS Power Keyboard Shortcuts

Hi all! It’s #TravelTuesday and here at Scott Kelby’s Photoshop Insider that means one thing – I’m here! I’m Dave Williams, normally found hiding behind the guise of Capture With Dave, and I’m offloading some know-how for you all! Today it comes in the form of my favourite Adobe Photoshop Power Keyboard Shortcuts!

It’s fair to say that we’re all, in every sector, looking to optimise and streamline our flows and processes. One sure-fire way to achieve this aim is to hit buttons on the keyboard rather than carefully and daintily manoeuvre the mouse about the desk, so to that end I’d like to share some of my favourite, lesser-known keyboard shortcuts – the power shortcuts!

The Brush Tool (B) is frequently used, and there are shortcuts specifically designed to speed up our flow when using it. It’s commonly known that the [ and ] keys make the brush size decrease and increase respectively, but did you know that you can use the , and . keys to cycle through the brush styles, or that you can switch the crosshair on for precision brushing using the Caps Lock key?

When it comes to viewing your project it’s important to view everything correctly. As well as hitting Z to select the Zoom Tool and ‘scrubby’ zooming by sliding our mouse left and right with the left button held, we can quickly move around the image whilst still having the Zoom Tool selected by holding the Space Bar and moving the image around right in front of us. Furthermore, from wherever we are on the image, at whichever zoom level, we can quickly and easily zoom back out and fit the image into our view by selecting CMD + 0 (Windows: Ctrl + 0) which quickly gives us an overview of the finer work we’re completing.

When it comes to working on Layers, we can utilise some handy shortcuts here for commonly completed tasks, too. For example, to select the Top Layer we just need to hit Option + . (Windows: Alt + .) or replace the . for a , to get to the Bottom Layer. To move up and down through the Layers just hit OPTION + [ or ] (Windows: Alt + [ or ])and to move that selected Layer up or down it’s CMD + [or ] (Windows: Ctrl + [ or ]). To Select all the Layers it’s simply a case of hitting CMD + OPTION + A (Windows: Ctrl + Alt + A) or to Merge all the Layers it’s CMD + Shift + E (Windows: Ctrl + Shift + E)

And finally for the Power Shortcuts, if you frequently use certain Blend Modes you can apply them quickly with these shortcuts, but make sure you have the right Layer selected, and the Move Tool (V) active: –

It’s always Shift + OPTION (Windows: Shift + Alt) together with: –

N – Normal Mode
I – Dissolve
K – Darken
G – Lighten
M – Multiply
O – Overlay
U – Hue
T – Saturation
Y – Luminosity

Or cycle through the Blend Modes with Shift + + or–

I hope you can make use of these shortcuts to speed up your Photoshop flow! Until next week.

Much Love

Dave

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