In this video,
I'm going to show you 10 really useful Photoshop keyboard shortcuts that you don't know. Probably.
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In this Photoshop tutorial, I'm going to show you 10 really useful keyboard shortcuts that
you probably don't know.
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The first shortcut is how to redo the last selection.
Photoshop actually remembers the last selection that you use.
Let me show you how that works.
I'm going to select the quick selection tool and I'm going to make a selection around her
arms and I'm going to hold Alt, option on the Mac.
Subtract from the selection and now that I have her arm selected I can create a new layer
and I'm just going to paint in a shadow, so I'm going to paint with black, like so.
Then I can press Ctrl D, command D to deselect and I can continue painting a shadow down
here and maybe now I want to add to the shadow or maybe create highlights on her sleeves,
but I don't want to waste the time creating the selection again, so I can simply press
Ctrl Shift D. That's command shift D in the Mac to bring back the last active selection.
Now, I can paint with white on a new layer with the overlay blending mode and now I can
create highlights on her sweater.
Then I can press Ctrl D, Command D to deselect.
If I need to bring back the selection, once again, Ctrl Shift D. Command shift D on the
Mac.
The next keyboard short cut that I'm going to show you is the lock transparent pixel
shortcut.
I'm going to select the brush tool and then I'm going to select the color that you can
really see, so I'm going to select red and I'm going to create a new layer and I'm going
to paint with red.
Maybe you're painting or retouching or doing anything where you're creating new pixels
on a blank layer.
Then, if I want to make an adjustment like maybe paint with a different color, so I'll
select blue and you want to paint directly over those pixels, but not affect the pixels
that are transparent, then you're going to need to use this keyboard shortcut.
I'm going to undo that by pressing Ctrl Alt C. What you want to do is press the question
mark key, which is the forward slash key and then that locks transparent pixels, so when
you paint, you only paint on the pixels that are opaque, not through transparent.
Also, notice in the layers panel that the lock transparent pixels icon is selected and
there is a lock on that layer, so I can press the forward slash key to remove that and now
I can paint anywhere in the layer.
I can press the forward slash key again and maybe use a different tool, like maybe the
burn tool and I can burn only the opaque pixels.
I'm not generating any new ones by painting on transparent pixels.
The keyboard shortcut that I'm going to talk about is one that actually gave me a lot of
problems when I was first starting out in Photoshop.
I have the brush tool selected and you can see the brush preview.
If I use the bracket keys on the keyboard to increase or decrease the size of my brush,
you'll see the cursor change.
It's giving us a preview of the actually brush, but if you inadvertently hit the caps lock
key, we no longer get that preview.
We just have the crosshair cursor on our painting tool, so even if you decrease or increase
the size of the brush, which I'm doing now, you won't see the preview, so make sure that
the caps lock key is off if you're ever missing that preview of the brush.
The very first time that I came up across this problem, I actually ended up uninstalling
Photoshop, believe it or not because I thought my Photoshop was broken.
That as back with Photoshop version seven.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who was confused by the caps locks key.
If it's confused you as well, let me know in the comments below, but anyway, just remember
the cap locks key gives you the crosshair cursor or the brush preview and I prefer the
brush preview, or course.
The next keyboard shortcut I want to show you is the fit to screen or bird's eye keyboard
shortcut, which is really the same one.
I'm going to press Ctrl T, Command T to transform and I'm going to zoom out.
Then I'm going to make this image larger, like so.
Then I'm going to double tap on the hand tool, which fits the image to screen and actually,
the keyboard shortcut to fit to screen is Ctrl zero.
However, when you press Ctrl T, Command T on the Mac to transform, but the corner handles
are outside of the canvas and you cannot see them, you can use that same keyboard shortcut,
Ctrl zero to zoom out and see the handles.
Whenever you transform something, and you don't see the handles, Ctrl zero, command
zero.
Also, as a side note, Ctrl one, command one on the Mac zooms into 100%, the actual view.
Basically, the same thing as double clicking in the hand tool or right clicking with the
zoom tool and selecting 100%.
In the next keyboard shortcut, I'm going to show you how to toggle the canvas color.
I'm going to zoom out just so that we can see.
Sometimes you're working with an image and your canvas color really doesn't help you
see the image, so you may need to change the color of it so that you can see the image
better.
You can press the space bar in the F key on the keyboard to toggle between the canvas
colors.
See that?
See how I'm toggling between the canvas colors?
You can add your own costume canvas color if you like, but I prefer the presets that
Photoshop has available.
Once again, space bar and the F key.
If you want to toggle the canvas colors to the opposite direction, just add the shift
key to that.
The next keyboard shortcut that I'm going to show you is the feather selection keyboard
shortcut.
I'm going to select the elliptical marquee tool and I'm going to create a very simple
selection, like so.
Notice that the feather is set to zero, which means that if I create a new layer and fill,
say, with the foreground color and you can do so by holding Alt and backspace, you will
of course, get a really sharp edge, but if you want to feather that, then what you would
need to do is deselect, type in the feather amount that you want and then make the selection
again.
But, if you created a complicated selection, it might take you too long to redo the selection,
so what you want to do is apply the feather to the selection.
To do so, you can hold shift and the F6 key, one of the function keys.
Shift and F6 and that brings up the feather selection window and you can enter a feather
radius.
We can try 20 pixels and press okay.
Now, if we fill with the foreground color, Alt and Backspace, Option Delete on the Mac,
you'll see now that we no longer have a sharp fill.
We now have a fill with feather.
In the next example, I'm going to show you how to use the spring loaded keyboard shortcut.
This is not really a single keyboard shortcut, it's more of how the keyboard shortcuts effect
the keys if used in a certain way.
Let's say we have the burn tool selected and I start burning the image and I want to zoom
in, I can hold Z and I'm still holding Z, zoom in, release and it goes back into the
burn tool, so I didn't really have to select that again.
Whenever you hold a keyboard shortcut down, the tool will temporarily be selected and
when you release you'll go back to the previous tool.
Maybe, in this case, you can hold the R key to rotate.
Click and drag.
We rotate the image.
I release the R key and I go back into the burn tool.
Then I rotate again.
Now, there's a trick to that, however.
If you hold R and you click and drag to rotate, make sure that you release the mouse button
first and then the R key because if you hold the letter R, click to rotate and release
the letter R first, it'll go into the actual rotate tool.
See that how that now is selected?
Make sure that you release the mouse button first and then release the letter R. I'm going
to double click on the rotate tool to bring it back to the regular view and I'm just going
to select the hand tool and double click on that to fit the image to screen.
In the next example, I'm going to show you something that I have here on this folder.
I have two circles.
A black circle and a white circle.
If you wanted to create a design where you're going to fill something around the circle,
maybe you're creating a watch or something like that, there's a keyboard shortcut that
you should know, which is the repeat the last transformation keyboard shortcut.
I'm going to press Ctrl H, Command H to bring back guides that I was hiding.
Ctrl H, Command H hides the extras and I'm going to press Ctrl T, Command T to transform.
Click and drag the pivot point to the center of that circle, then I can change the rotation
to 20 degrees and hit enter.
That of course, rotates that circle into that position.
Now, if I press Ctrl Alt Shift T, Command Option Shift T to duplicate that same transformation
onto a new layer, watch what happens.
I'm pressing that same keyboard shortcut over and over and over again, so that duplicates
that circle around the larger circle and that works because we changed the pivot point to
the center of the larger circle and we changed in increments of 20 degrees, which of course
divides equally among the 360 degrees of a circle.
You can use this technique to create very interesting designs by simply duplicating
the last transformation that you did onto a new layer.
The next keyboard shortcut that I want to show you is one that I use all the time, and
I like to call it the whoopsie-daisy key because when you make a mistake, you can always go
back and not even worry about pressing cancel or anything like that.
Let me show you what I mean by that.
Maybe you're working in Photoshop, and you click on the crop tool, and you decide that
you no longer want to be in the crop tool, maybe even you started making a crop, but
you really want to cancel that.
Simply press the escape key, and that'll get rid of that.
Maybe you open up a window, so let me switch tools and go into edit, fill and decide that
you no longer want the fill window, you can just press the escape key.
The same thing will happen with any window.
Maybe you press Ctrl K, command K on the Mac to bring up the preferences panel.
Maybe you don't want it anymore.
You can press the escape key.
If you select the type tool and you click, and you decide that you no longer want that
text layer, you can simply press the escape key, and that cancels out of that tool, and
the layer disappears.
If you make a mistake and you're in a tool or window that you don't want to be in, just
hit the escape key.
Now, the few examples are extras.
These are just a couple of things that I use all the time, so one of those is with text,
so I'm going to create a text box, then I'm going to go into type, paste, Lorem Ipsum,
which is the generic text and I'm just going to press Ctrl A, command A to select all the
text and I'm going to change the color to white, so that you can see it better.
Notice how there's hyphens ... that it's hyphenation and that's enabled by default.
If you want to get rid of the hyphens, just press Ctrl A, Command A on the Mac to select
all the text and then you can press Ctrl Alt Shift H. That's command option shift H on
the Mac, and it gets rid of all the hyphens.
It removes the hyphenation.
The way of doing that without a keyboard shortcut is by going into the paragraph panel, clicking
on the flyout menu, selecting hyphenation, and then unchecking this checkbox.
The keyboard shortcut's so much easier.
Once again, the keyboard shortcut is Ctrl Alt Shift H. Command Option Shift H on the
Mac.
Another keyboard shortcut that I use all the time is holding the Alt key on any one of
these I icons to hide all the other layers except for the layer that I clicked on, so
I held Alt, Option on the Mac, click on this layer and all the other layers where hidden.
I can do the same thing again to bring them back.
I can do the same thing with this black circle, so hold Alt, option on the Mac, click on the
eye icon to hide all other visible layers and to bring them back, Alt, Option on the
Mac and click again.
The last bonus keyboard shortcut is another one that I use a lot when I make mistakes.
Sometimes you just make too many mistakes on one file that you have to go back to the
last time that you saved it or to have a file first look when it was open.
You can simply press the F12 key on the keyboard, function 12 to revert the image.
How many of these shortcuts were new to you?
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As I said earlier in the video, post your favorite keyboard shortcut not shown in the
video in the comments and check out what other people are commenting and maybe you'll discover
something that can be useful to you.
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