Keyboard Shortcuts

When working in Photoshop, simple tasks can become a hindrance to your workflow. To help out, I've listed a great selection of Photoshop shortcuts right here, all guaranteed to speed up your workflow once you get the hang of them.

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