All In One Guide For Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts

Adobe Photoshop is state-of-the-art Graphic software. It is highly enriched with amazing features. Besides this, it is also very user friendly and is very convenient to use. Everything is given in menus to have easy access. Besides menus one can also use keyboard shortcuts to quickly execute the command. All these shortcuts are given in Edit > keyboard shortcuts, but for your convenience I have compiled a separate list of keyboard shortcuts for different commands in Photoshop.



File:

• New: Ctrl+N
• Open: Ctrl+O
• Browse: Alt+Ctrl+O
• Open As: Alt+Shift+Ctrl+O
• Edit in ImageReady: Shift+Ctrl+M
• Close Ctrl+W
• Close All Alt+Ctrl+W
• Close and Go To Bridge: Shift+Ctrl+W
• Save Ctrl+S
• Save As: Shift+Ctrl+S
• Save a Version: Alt+Ctrl+S
• Save for Web: Alt+Shift+Ctrl+S
• Revert F12
• File Info: Alt+Shift+Ctrl+I
• Page Setup: Shift+Ctrl+P
• Print with Preview: Alt+Ctrl+P
• Print: Ctrl+P
• Print One Copy Alt+Shift+Ctrl+P
• Exit Ctrl+Q

Edit:

• · Undo: Ctrl+Z
• · Step Forward :Shift+Ctrl+Z
• · Step Backward :Alt+Ctrl+Z
• · Fade: Shift+Ctrl+F
• · Cut:Ctrl+X
• · Copy: Ctrl+C
• · Copy Merged: Shift+Ctrl+C
• · Paste: Ctrl+V
• · Paste Into: Shift+Ctrl+V
• · Fill: Shift+F5
• · Free Transform :Ctrl+T
• · Transform : Shift+Ctrl+T
• · Color Settings: Shift+Ctrl+K
• · Keyboard Shortcuts: Alt+Shift+Ctrl+K
• · Menus: Alt+Shift+Ctrl+M
• · Preferences > General: Ctrl+K

Image Adjustments:

• · Levels: Ctrl+L
• · Auto Levels Shift+Ctrl+L
• · Auto Contrast Alt+Shift+Ctrl+L
• · Auto Color Shift+Ctrl+B
• · Curves: Ctrl+M
• · Color Balance: Ctrl+B
• · Hue/Saturation: Ctrl+U
• · Desaturate Shift+Ctrl+UImage
• · Canvas Size: Alt+Ctrl+C

Layer

• · New Layer: Shift+Ctrl+N
• · Layer duplicate: Ctrl+J
• · Layer via Cut: Shift+Ctrl+J
• · Create/Release Clipping Mask: Alt+Ctrl+G
• · Group Layers: Ctrl+G
• · Ungroup Layers: Shift+Ctrl+G
• · Bring to Front: Shift+Ctrl+]
• · Bring Forward: Ctrl+]
• · Send Backward: Ctrl+[
• · Send to Back Shift+Ctrl+[
• · Merge Layers Ctrl+E
• · Merge Visible Shift+Ctrl+E

Select

• · All: Ctrl+A
• · Deselect: Ctrl+D
• · Reselect: Shift+Ctrl+D
• · Inverse: Shift+Ctrl+I
• · All Layers Alt+Ctrl+A
• · Feather: Alt+Ctrl+D

Filter

• · Last Filter: Ctrl+F
• · Extract: Alt+Ctrl+X
• · Liquify: Shift+Ctrl+X
• · Pattern Maker: Alt+Shift+Ctrl+X
• · Vanishing Point: Alt+Ctrl+V

View

• · Proof Colors: Ctrl+Y
• · Gamut Warning: Shift+Ctrl+Y
• · Zoom In: Ctrl++
• · Zoom Out: Ctrl+-
• · Fit on Screen: Ctrl+0
• · Actual Pixels: Alt+Ctrl+0
• · Extras: Ctrl+H
• · Target Path: Shift+Ctrl+H
• · Grid: Ctrl+’
• · Guides: Ctrl+;
• · Rulers: Ctrl+R
• · Snap: Shift+Ctrl+;
• · Lock Guides: Alt+Ctrl+;

Windows

• · Actions: Alt+F9
• · Brushes: F5
• · Color: F6
• · Info: F8
• · Layers: F7

Help

• · Photoshop Help: F1
• Apart from these menus, here are some other shortcuts which are not in menus.
• · Increase brush size: {
• · Decrease brush size: }
• · Default colors: D
• · Switch default colors: X

I hope this list will provide you a great deal of convenience. If you know any more shortcuts other than these, you are most welcome to share in comments section.