Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts

Every designer knows that when it comes to Photoshop, the best thing you can do to speed up your work is to study the keyboard shortcuts intensely. Menu poking is not exactly one of the most optimized solutions, but it helps beginners navigate their way around the features offered. The Photoshop CS6 keyboard shortcuts cheat sheet presented in this simple article is a way for you to optimize your work and make your time more concentrated around your designs.

The faster you try to memorize the Photoshop CS6 keyboard shortcuts, the faster you will optimize your workflow and have more time for everything around it. I am not saying it is in any way easy, but if you want to make sure to hit the deadlines and make operations more straightforward in Photoshop, this is a great way to go about it.

There are plenty of keyboard shortcut cheat sheets out there, but this one is perhaps the most jam-packed one I have seen. Usually they are put together in the form of a list or something similar. This one is both compact, jam-packed with features and simple to put on your wall or take with you wherever you go. Some designers like the ability to take their shortcut cheat sheets with them, and this Photoshop CS6 keyboard shortcuts cheat sheet is definitely one of the most mobile ones out there.

Must-Know Keyboard Shortcuts!

The following are 22 of my most commonly used Photoshop Keyboard shortcuts. These are simple commands that are pretty easy to pull off, and they will certainly speed up your productivity and workflow.

Save As: Command Shift S
Save for Web: Command Shift Option S
Undo: Command Z
Step Back: Command Option Z
Duplicate: Command J
Duplicate all visible Layers: Command Shift Option E
Hide Extras: Command H
Full-screen: F
Default Colors: D (black and white)
Flip Foreground and Background colors: X
Hand tool while in another tool: Hold Spacebar

Fill with Background color: Command Delete
Fill with Foreground color: Option Delete
Open Fill dialog box: Shift Delete
Decrease/Increase Brush Size: [ or ]
Deselect: Command D
Restore Last Selection: Shift Command D
Move tool while in painting tool: hold Command
Eyedropper while in any paint tool: hold Option
Cross-Hair Cursor on any painting tool: Caps Lock
Lock transparent pixels: / (back slash)
Commit edits when typing: Command Return