Toggles between your selected background and foreground color.įills your selected layer with background or foreground color, respectively. X: Toggle foreground and background colors

Selects “default” background and foreground colors (black and white). Layers are an important feature and being able to work with them effectively is important.Īdds a new layer, by default an empty transparent layer.Ĭopies selection into a new layer or duplicates the whole layer into a new layer if nothing is selected.ĭ: Default foreground and background colors

Let’s take a look at some shortcuts for manipulating layers. Opens a search box for searching through the interface and Adobe help You can quickly begin a new project with this shortcut.Ĭloses current project and get a prompt to save.Įxport current project, for example if you wish to make a JPEG from a layered image. If you wish to make a new save file and preserve your old file, use Ctrl-Shift-S for “save as.” This shortcut saves your project and overwrites your previous save file. Repeated presses will undo or redo more actions based on your command history. If you want to redo something or undo your “undo,” just press Ctrl-Shift-Z. Undo will reverse the last action you did. For macOS users the shortcut is Alt-Shift-Command-K. This shortcut shows you all available keyboard shortcuts and lets you edit them if the default shortcut doesn’t do it for you.

Most popular Photoshop shortcuts and what they do A lot of the shortcuts below are universal across various programs, so you probably already know a few of them.

Keep using them and eventually, the shortcuts will become muscle memory and you won’t even have to think twice about using them.

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