Useful Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts

Aug 08, 2013, by admin

Hi all today we are going to see some basic useful Photoshop key board shortcuts

Zooming

Ctrl-+ (plus) to zoom in
Ctrl– (minus) to zoom out
Ctrl-0 (zero) fits the document to your screen
Ctrl-1 zooms to 100% or 1:1 pixel magnification

Undo and Redo

Alt-Ctrl-Z = Step Backward (undo previous action)
Shift-Ctrl-Z = Step Forward (redo previous action)

Deselect

Ctrl-D = Deselect

Change brush size and hardness

The square bracket keys [ and ] are used to increase or decrease brush size. By adding the Shift key, you can adjust brush hardness.
[ = decrease brush size
Shift-[ = decrease brush hardness or soften brush edge
] = increase brush size
Shift-] = increase brush hardness

Filling

Alt-backspace = fill with foreground color
Ctrl-backspace = fill with background color
Add the Shift key to preserve transparency while filling (this only fills the areas containing pixels).
Shift-backspace = opens the fill dialog box
D = reset color picker to default colors (black foreground, white background)
X = swap foreground and background colors

Layer selection

Alt-[ = select the layer below the currently selected layer (select backward)
Alt-] = select the layer above the currently selected layer (select forward)
Alt-, (comma) = select the bottom-most layer (select back layer)
Alt-. (period) = select the top-most layer (select front layer)
Add Shift to these shortcuts to select multiple layers. Experiment to the get the hang of the Shift modifier.

Align text left/center/right

Ctrl-Shift-L/C/R

These are the basic Photoshop keyboard shortcuts to get daily post updates like the page Bugtreat Technologies  and be touch with us