Hi, this is Anne with Graphic Design How To, and today I want to give you my top five keyboard
shortcuts for Photoshop.
Now first, I want to tell you where I downloaded this free email template.
I got it from Marco Lopez on Dribble.
So thank you, Marco.
And that's available in the description.
So if you want to download this to follow along, feel free to do that.
OK, let's get right into it.
Now, number one, first hit V to get to your Move Tool, and then uncheck Auto-Select, because
the first keyboard shortcut I want to show you, you can auto-select things just by holding
down the CMD button.
So hold down CMD.
Now this is on Mac.
Hold down CMD and click, and that will get you to the layer of whatever and then you
can move it around.
So we'll undo.
Here we'll get to this text by CMD clicking that text.
And the reason you don't want to have Auto-Select selected is because you'll constantly have
to be unchecking this, checking it, whenever you want to work with your project.
So I really recommend leaving that unchecked, and just hitting CMD to select which layer
you want.
OK, so that is number one.
Number two, get your Brush Tool by clicking B. And we'll get on a layer here that's editable.
To make my brush size smaller or bigger, you can hold down CTRL and OPT and slide to the
right and left, this is a super fast way to get a bigger brush size or a smaller one.
Bigger to the right, smaller to the left, and hardness changes if you go up and down.
Up will be a less hard brush, a softer brush, and down will be a very hard brush.
And you can see all of that changing right here.
So that is the second keyboard shortcut that I highly recommend.
The third keyboard shortcut is using CMD T and CMD zero to quickly transform a layer.
So I'm going to come over here to this other document I have open.
I want to put this picture into this space here.
So I'm going to click here, CMD click to get this layer, which is right here...I...because
I want it to be nearby.
So let's go back over to my other document.
I'm going to select all (CMD A), copy, and then paste.
OK, now this was such a huge picture that it filled up my entire screen.
So now to transform it, do CMD T, and then we still don't have any handles.
So do CMD zero, and now we can see our handles and just resize to about what you want.
And I'll CMD +, to zoom in a little bit.
Use the spacebar to use the Hand Tool.
I'm going to place this right about here.
OK, so we have to set up this layer mask.
I want to create a keyboard shortcut to make a mask for my selection.
So that's the goal.
Let's go up to Edit>Keyboard Shortcuts.
And then we'll go to 'Layer', which is already open here.
And then we'll go all the way down here to 'Layer Mask', and we want to do 'Reveal Selection'.
So let's set this up to be Shift Opt CMD and M. And I'll accept that and say, 'OK.'
OK, now we're going to create a mask using this same shape here.
So CMD click this block, and I'm going to CMD click this mask to get that selection.
Now, I don't want to actually move this picture, so I'm just going to hit M, and move the selection
only, and I'll hold SHIFT while doing this, so that it will be positioned right.
Now go to the layer you just created.
And now we can make that mask SHIFT OPT CMD M, and now you can see we... we've just created
this mask.
OK, so that is a layer mask from the selection layer keyboard shortcut, and that was one
if you're using layers and masks, that one is so handy.
I use it all the time.
So that was number four.
Let's say I want to work only with this picture, and I want to just hide everything else.
To do that, I can OPT and then click the eyeball for that layer.
So OPT click, and now you can see everything else is hidden.
If you want it to all come back, just OPT click it again, and everything will be back,
so that is number five.
And that is my five Photoshop shortcuts that will hopefully save you a lot of time.
They have saved me a ton of time over my career.
This is Anne for Graphic Design How To.
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