hey guys welcome or welcome back thanks so much for joining me today i want to share
with you my absolute favourite time saving photography keyboard shortcuts in photoshop
that was like quite a long intro actually so uh yeah sorry about that we've got a camera
above us today so we're gonna discuss keyboard shortcuts and basically how we can save time
by learning a few of them you just take a little bit of time to integrate keyboard shortcuts into
your workflow but when you do man it's worth it so keyboard shortcuts that i use all the time might help
you out in following full edits as well because often i don't run through what i'm actually
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soon you know so i've got up in front of me a um an edited file of bryt in photoshop so we can see
photoshop is here in front of us nice and clear and essentially what i want to do is talk you
through these different keyboard shortcuts and we're going to do that with the help of the camera
above and also the camera to the side so if i end up not posting for a while it's probably because
this is falling on my head and i'm in the hospital that was a joke by the way not a very funny one
okay so keyboard shortcuts there are some basic ones which i think everybody should know
if you've done our photoshop for beginners course then you probably will already know all of these
um but i think it's worthwhile starting here so let's say for example you are on
a particular tool and you have done your cropping you're ready to go you're on your zoom tool it
doesn't matter what you're on and you just want to get back to the normal pointer tool
the move tool all you need to do is press v on the keyboard so pressing v on the keyboard will
take you back to that handy little move tool which is so helpful we've got some other tool
shortcuts that i tend to use all of the time and i think they're worth sharing so we have
m m is your rectangular marquee tool all your other marquee tools they all live here um but
m will let you build your marquees now let's say you've made a selection this is a selection here
by the way if you've made a selection with these marching ants you think jesus i need to get these
to go away what on earth can i do well aside from going on to your marquee tool and clicking it once
the other way is to do a command d now as you can see in front we've got a mac keyboard with us here
this is a apple keyboard if you do have a windows that's fine all these keyboard shortcuts are the
same you just need to do some substitutions so when i say command you press ctrl when i say
option you press alt and when i say control you right click that's the curve ball there but that's
the only differences okay i'll make sure they're somewhere visible including in the description and
blog post that will be related to this video so we've got our v tool we've gone through our m tool
we've gone through our deselect which is command d what if what if you wanted to use the brush tool
brush tool very frequently used for our masks and all things masking if you don't know what
they are photoshop for beginners course will help you out on that if you just want to watch
a quick youtube video on it i will link that one above so let's grab our brush by pressing the b
now i've got this little kind of no entry sign coming up it's because i'm not clicking on a layer
click on a layer and we get our brush so you guys see me do this really quick uh brush changey
thing all of the time this really quick brush changey thing is such a time saver it is unreal
so if you're not doing that it's worth learning now remember your windows substitutes guys if you
need them but your brush controls for this are to do on a mac control and option control and option
will bring up that kind of option for us but we then need to click and hold with our mouse
we click and hold we pull right for bigger left for smaller up for softer and down for harder
go ahead and practice that as often as you can until it becomes second nature genuinely
it will transform your photoshop experience if you're on windows that is of course alt and right
click based on our substitutions if you're using a tablet like a wacom you can still do all of that
just do your keyboard shortcuts press that pen down and pull it and you'll get the same result
so that is our brush shortcut there absolutely worth everybody knowing let's say for example that
we want to slap this on at a uh arbitrary flow of eighty percent we just press eight
with our keyboard the number eight and we switch to eighty percent let's say for example that you
do not have a stylus and pen connected in which case go ahead and unselect that now if i press
eight opacity will drop to eight eighty percent so zero is a hundred percent but then you can mix and
match your numbers to get any percentage that you want let's say for example we wanted to switch our
flow to 100 all we need to do is hold down shift and click o and the opposite one will switch the
same works for if that button is selected so back to 100 we're all ready to go next keyboard
shortcut which i think is actually invaluable is the zooming in one so this is something that
i do all of the time i hold down alt or option on my keyboard and i go ahead and scroll on my
mouse you do need a scrolly mouse to be able to do this but that is also such a time saver
just saying next one that i tend to do reasonably regularly is i often want to just kind of see
where what one layer is doing in the layer stack so if we've got multiple layers going
on i want to just see this layer instead of going through and turning all these layers off
to get to that point all we need to do is hold down option on the keyboard that's alt for
windows and click on the eye icon and next to it the eye icon the visibility icon will enable and
show just the layer and we click it again to re apply the other layers that was really bad english
to enable the other layers same thing kind of is true for masks because if we just want to see what
the mask actually is if we hold down option on the keyboard and click just the mask we get a visible
view of just the mask and we can go and amend that if we want to get back we hold down option and we
click the mask again and that gets us back there so that can be super helpful a keyboard shortcut
that we all use with masks whilst we're on this topic is the invert if you followed me
for a while you will know we invert masks on the daily in which case we go ahead and do a command
i so a command i now you can see because of how i've got the camera set up which hands i use for
these things you can use whatever you want to use genuinely in terms of your keyboard whatever
you're happiest with so another keyboard shortcut that i think is really important and i use it
very very very regularly i would say at least every edit if not multiple times every edit would
be the content aware fill so again this is covered in the photoshop for beginners course in a little
bit more detail but we can go ahead and grab a tool whether it's the lasso or a quick selection
tool it doesn't matter what it is and we can go ahead and circle a particular element in the image
for example let's go ahead and very badly circle this if i want that to be removed i could go ahead
and get my clone stamp tool i could go and get my spot removal tool five ways to remove things in
photoshop i will link that video above but there's so many tools i could use but often the quickest
way is to just do shift backspace now dan always says i'm mad for using this shift when there's a
shift right here but for me i'm left-handed so i find it easier to do the other way so we want to
make sure that this is set to content aware and then i don't even press okay i just hit enter
so hit shift backspace enter and i do that very very quickly to fill specific areas
that's just basically what i do and then to deselect if you just want to end there command
d we've already gone through and that takes us back to the beginning now i like that bokeh so
i'm putting it back in and you just saw me do another keyboard shortcut so if you don't know
i don't know why you wouldn't know but if you don't know command z or control z
on a windows is the universal sign and symbol for undo it works in nearly every application
including you know facebook statuses for example command z is the undo so i just undid that by
pressing command z if i wanted to redo that i press command shift and z so i do that as
this thumb this finger and then a z so you've got undo command z and redo command shift z
okay let's say for example you wanted to copy the pixels within that selection let's do a different
keyboard shortcut so we're going to command d to deselect that and then we'll do command a
think a for all command a will select all of the pixels within that particular layer so that's this
layer here and then we can do our three other ones which again universal command c to copy command x
to cut and command v to paste those three keyboard shortcuts will also speed up your life everywhere
else so that's a bonus for us i think to be honest so that is the best keyboard shortcuts that i
think are most useful to everybody basically in the whole world for photoshop if you learn
all of those keyboard shortcuts which i will drop into a blog post below you probably will
speed up your photoshop life quite considerably also you might find you just enjoy it if you
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the comments box below with that all said and done i'll see you all again really really soon