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Simple and Useful Photoshop Keyboard Commands

Posted: April 14, 2014

[caption id="attachment_11840" align="alignright" width="250"]Keyboard-ShortcutsImage from: digital-photography-school.com[/caption]Completing certain tasks in Photoshop might leave you scratching your head. Keyboard shortcuts can help make mastering Photoshop. Once you get the hang of keyboard shortcuts, the Photoshop possibilities are endless.

[caption id="attachment_11840" align="alignright" width="250"]Keyboard-ShortcutsImage from: digital-photography-school.com[/caption]Completing certain tasks in Photoshop might leave you scratching your head. Keyboard shortcuts can help make mastering Photoshop. Once you get the hang of keyboard shortcuts, the Photoshop possibilities are endless.

Brian Auer, writer for Digital Photography School, shares the essential keyboard shortcuts needed for photoshops.

18 Exceptionally Useful Photoshop Shortcuts

Working with Photoshop can be quite time consuming for both beginners and advanced users. Once you’ve worked with it for a while, you begin to find that you’re constantly going back and forth between the same menu items or palette buttons. If you’re anything like me, you’re switching tools so often that most of your time spent in Photoshop isn’t even on the photo — it’s messing with the vast array of editing tools. Fortunately there’s a way to help streamline your Photoshop workflow.

Keyboard commands, or shortcuts, are simply a way to bypass a few mouse clicks when doing tool changes or tool property adjustments. They’re a little awkward and cumbersome at first, but once you pick up a couple of commands on the keyboard you’ll never go back.

Read the entire article 18 Exceptionally Useful Photoshop Shortcuts on Digital Photography School.