Common repetitive tasks in PS can me made so much easier via the use of keyboard shortcuts. Which ones do you use most often? Please share some of your 'secrets' with others. I'll start the ball rolling; a common one for me is to duplicate the layer via Ctrl J; any others?

Adrian

hm, i definitely use ctrl+shift+e (flatten image) a lot, or well, once for each image i edit at the end of the editing process.

i think my most used other ones are alt+z and alt+ctrl+z for undo/redo and undo...

Thanks for those Lorenzo, a variant of your flatten image shortcut is the ctrl+alt+shift+e 'stamp visible' shortcut.

Ctrl-q

http://www.shortcutworld.com/en/mac/Photoshop_CS5.html#link_1

 

http://www.shortcutworld.com/en/win/Photoshop_CS5.html

Thanks for that link Ben and Clyde, you would have to be using PS 24 hours a day to remember all those :)

Another one I use creates a clipping layer, whilst holding down the alt key pass the mouse between the two layers, the 'hand' will change to the 'clipping' icon, then click, and the top layer becomes a clipping layer.

Cmd-J - New layer via copy

M, B, J, and S keys to switch to the marquee, brush, healing tools, and clone stamp

Cmd-D to deselect

Cmd/Alt-delete to fill with the foreground and background colors

Shift-delete-bring up the fill dialog

Cmd-T free transform then shift-option drag to constrain proportions and transform from the center

Shift-Return - Highlight the numerical adjustment in the toolbar or properties panel

0-9 keys change the opacity of a layer or brush opacity

I tend to use few shortcuts.

 

The one I like the best really does save time.

 

Every time you bring in a new photo and want to transform it to make it fit properly the handles disappear. You can zoom out out out...and you will see them..or you can hit

Com/zero and they come in front of the picture. If you do a lot of CEs this is a good one.

Not sure that it works on products before CS 5.

 

Phyllis

another one I use regularly is ctrl+I, usually to reverse a mask or selection, or to turn the mask from all white to all black

I used to keep this on my small second monitor..

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v313/melbrackstone/keyboardshortcuts_zps511664da.jpg

 

you could also print it out and keep it handy.

 

My most used shortcut is the bracket key to change the size of the brush... [