Essential Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts for Photographers

Here is a essential shortcut set for photographers using Photoshop to make your processing faster.

Work space:

F Switch Between Screen Mode

CTRL+0 Fit Image In The Screen or Window

CTRL/CMD + Zoom In

CTRL/CMD - Zoom Out

CTRL/CMD+TAB Flip through Open Documents

SPACE = Move Through Image with Hand Tool

Tools:

B Brush Tool

F5 Open Brush Settings Panel

0 - 9 Set the Opacity of your current tool

SHIFT + 0 - 9 Set the flow of your current tool

X Switch Between Foreground And Background Color

D Reset Foreground And Background Colors to Black & White

V Move Tool

C Crop Tool

G Gradient Tool

M Selection Tool

SHIFT+L Toggle Lasso Tools

I Eyedropper Tool

P Pen Tool

Z Zoom Tool

S Clone Stamp Tool

SHIFT+J Toggle Patch Tool, Spot Healing Brush etc.

SHIFT+O Toggle Between Dodge & Burne Tools

CTRL/CMD+ALT+ Right Mouse Button Adjust Brush, Small or Big (Moving mouse to left or right) / Soft or Hard (Moving mouse down or up)

Layers & saving

CTRL/CMD+I Invert (Selection and Mask for example)

CTRL/CMD+ALT+I Image Size Adjustments

CTRL/CMD+ALT+SHIFT+E Make A Stamp Visible Layer

CTRL+ALT+S Save As

CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+S Save For Web

I have added these to the Shortcut Setup ease my work:

CTRL/CMD+ALT+SHIFT+K Shortcut Setup

CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+M Add Mask (Layer - Reveal All)

CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+G Gaussian Blur (Filter - Gaussian Blur)

CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+U Unsharp Mask (Filter - Unsharp Mask)

CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+F Flatten Image (Layer - Flatten Image)