Adobe Photoshop Quick Dev Reference

A visual cheat-sheet for the 283 keyboard shortcuts found in Adobe Photoshop.

Keyboard Shortcuts

Popular shortcuts

Ctrl T — Free transform

[ — Decrease brush size

] — Increase brush size

Shift [ — Decrease brush hardness

Shift ] — Increase brush hardness

D — Default foreground/background colors

X — Switch foreground/background colors

Ctrl J — New layer via copy

Ctrl Shift J — New layer via cut

Esc — Cancel any modal dialog window (including the Start Workspace)

Enter — Select the first edit field of the tool bar

Tab — Navigate between fields

Shift Tab — Navigate between fields in the opposite direction

Alt — Change cancel to reset

Ctrl F — Invoke the search experience

Use function keys

F1 — Start help

F2 — Cut

F3 — Copy

F4 — Paste

F5 — Show/hide brush panel

F6 — Show/hide color panel

F7 — Show/hide layers panel

F8 — Show/hide info panel

F9 — Show/hide actions panel

F12 — Revert

Shift F5 — Fill

Shift F6 — Feather selection

Shift F7 — Inverse selection

Select tools

V — Move tool

M — Rectangular marquee tool

L — Lasso tool

W — Magic wand tool > quick selection tool

C — Crop tool > slice tool > slice select tool

I — Eyedropper tool > ruler tool > note tool

J — Spot healing brush tool > healing brush tool > patch tool > red eye tool

B — Brush tool > pencil tool > color replacement tool > mixer brush tool

S — Clone stamp tool > pattern stamp tool

Y — History brush tool > Art history brush tool

E — Eraser tool > background eraser tool > magic eraser tool

G — Gradient tool > paint bucket tool

O — Dodge tool > burn tool > sponge tool

P — Pen tool > freeform pen tool

T — Horizontal type tool > vertical type tool > horizontal type mask tool > vertical type mask tool

A — Path selection tool > direct selection tool

U — Rectangle tool > rounded rectangle tool > ellipse tool > polygon tool > line tool

H — Hand tool

R — Rotate view tool

Z — Zoom tool

D — Default foreground/background colors

X — Switch foreground/background colors

Q — Toggle standard/quick mask modes

J — Content-aware move tool

C — Perspective crop tool

V — Artboard tool

R — Rotate view tool

/ — Toggle preserve transparency

, — Previous brush

. — Next brush

Shift , — First brush

Shift . — Last brush

View images

Ctrl Tab — Cycle through open documents

Ctrl Shift Tab — Switch to previous document

Ctrl Shift W — Close a file in Photoshop and open Bridge

F — Toggle forward between Standard screen > Full screen with menu bar > Full screen modes

Shift F — Toggle backwards between Standard screen > Full screen with menu bar > Full screen modes

Space F — Toggle forward canvas color

Shift Space F — Toggle backwards canvas color

Space — Switch to hand tool (when not in text-edit mode)

Ctrl Space — Switch to zoom in tool

Alt Space — Switch to zoom out tool

Shift Enter — Apply zoom percentage, and keep zoom percentage box active

PgUp/PgDn — Scroll up or down 1 screen

Shift PgUp/PgDn — Scroll up or down 10 units

Home — Move view to upper-left corner

End — Move view to lower-right corner

\ — Toggle layer mask on/off as rubylith (layer mask must be selected)

Use Puppet Warp

Esc — Cancel completely

Ctrl Z — Undo last pin adjustment

Ctrl A — Select all pins

Ctrl D — Deselect all pins

H — Temporarily hide pins

Use Refine Edge

Ctrl Alt R — Open the Refine Edge dialog box

F — Cycle forward through preview modes

Shift F — Cycle backwards through preview modes

X — Toggle between original image and selection preview

P — Toggle between original selection and refined version

J — Toggle radius preview on and off

Shift E — Toggle between Refine Radius and Erase Refinement tools

Use the Filter Gallery

Ctrl Alt F — Reapply last-used filter

Ctrl — Change Cancel button to Default

Alt — Change Cancel button to Reset

Ctrl Z — Undo/Redo

Ctrl Shift Z — Step forward

Ctrl Alt Z — Step backward

Use the Liquify filter

W — Forward warp tool

R — Reconstruct tool

C — Twirl clockwise tool

S — Pucker tool

B — Bloat tool

O — Push left tool

M — Mirror tool

T — Turbulence tool

F — Freeze mask tool

D — Thaw mask tool

Alt (tool) — Reverse direction for Bloat, Pucker, Push Left, and Mirror tools

Tab — Cycle through controls on right from top

Shift Tab — Cycle through controls on right from bottom

Alt — Change cancel to reset

Use Vanishing Point

X — Zoom 2x (temporary)

Ctrl + — Zoom in

Ctrl - — Zoom out

Ctrl 0 — Fit in view

Ctrl Z — Undo last action

Ctrl Shift Z — Redo last action

Ctrl D — Deselect all

Ctrl H — Hide selection and panes

Arrows — Move selection 1 pixel

Shift Arrows — Move selection 10 pixels

Ctrl C — Copy

Ctrl V — Paste

Ctrl Shift T — Repeat last duplicate and move

Ctrl Alt T — Create floating selection from the current selection

Alt Shift — Constrain selection to a 15 degree rotation

Backspace — Delete last node while creating plane

Use the Camera Raw dialog box

Z — Zoom tool

H — Hand tool

I — White balance tool

S — Color sampler tool

C — Crop tool

A — Straighten tool

B — Spot removal tool

E — Red eye removal tool

Ctrl Alt 1 — Basic panel

Ctrl Alt 2 — Tone curve panel

Ctrl Alt 3 — Detail panel

Ctrl Alt 4 — HSL/Greyscale panel

Ctrl Alt 5 — Split toning panel

Ctrl Alt 6 — Lens corrections panel

Ctrl Alt 7 — Camera calibration panel

Ctrl Alt 8 — Presets panel

Ctrl Alt 9 — Open snapshots panel

Ctrl Alt Shift T — Parametric curve targeted adjustment tool

Ctrl Alt Shift H — Hue targeted adjustment tool

Ctrl Alt Shift S — Saturation targeted adjustment tool

Ctrl Alt Shift L — Luminance targeted adjustment tool

Ctrl Alt Shift G — Grayscale mix targeted adjustment tool

T — Last-used targeted adjustment tool

K — Adjustment brush tool

G — Graduated filter tool

Alt — Temporarily switch from Add to Erase mode for the Adjustment brush tool, or from Erase to Add mode

Alt ]/[ — Increase/decrease temporary adjustment brush tool size

Alt Shift ]/[ — Increase/decrease temporary adjustment brush tool feather

Alt =/- — Increase/decrease temporary adjustment brush tool size flow in increments of 10

N — Switch to New mode from Add or Erase mode of the Adjustment Brush tool or Graduated filter

M — Toggle Auto Mask for Adjustment Brush tool

Y — Toggle Show Mask for Adjustment Brush tool

V — Toggle pins for Adjustment Brush tool

L — Rotate image left

R — Rotate image right

Ctrl — Temporarily switch to zoom in tool

Alt — Temporarily switch to zoom out tool and change the image open button to open copy

P — Toggle preview

F — Full screen mode

Shift — Temporarily activate the White Balance tool and change the open image button to open object

Arrows — Move selected point in curves panel 1 pixel

Shift Arrows — Move selected point in curves panel 10 pixels

Ctrl R — Open selected images in Camera Raw dialog box from Bridge

O — Highlight clipping warning

U — Shadows clipping warning

Ctrl 1-5 — Add 1-5 star rating (filmstrip mode)

Ctrl ./, — Increase/decrease rating (filmstrip mode)

Ctrl 6 — Add red label (filmstrip mode)

Ctrl 7 — Add yellow label (filmstrip mode)

Ctrl 8 — Add green label (filmstrip mode)

Ctrl 9 — Add blue label (filmstrip mode)

Ctrl Shift 0 — Add purple label (filmstrip mode)

Ctrl K — Camera Raw preferences

Ctrl Alt — Delete Adobe Camera Raw preferences (on open)

Use the Black-and-White dialog box

Ctrl Shift Alt B — Open the Black-and-White dialog box

Up/Down — Increase/decrease selected value by 1%

Shift Up/Down — Increase/decrease selected value by 10%

Use Curves

Ctrl M — Open the Curves dialog box

+ — Select next point on the curve

- — Select the previous point on the curve

Ctrl D — Deselect a point

Del — Delete a point on the curve

Arrows — Move the selected point 1 pixel

Shift Arrows — Move the selected point 10 pixels

Transform selections, selection borders, and paths

Alt — Transform from center or reflect

Shift — Constrain

Ctrl — Distort

Enter — Apply

Ctrl . — Cancel

Ctrl Alt T — Free transform with duplicate data

Ctrl Shift Alt T — Transform again with duplicate data

Edit paths

Ctrl — Switch from path selection, pen, add anchor point, delete anchor point, or convert point tools to direct selection tool

Alt — Switch from pen tool to freeform pen tool to convert point tool when pointer is over anchor or direction point

Use for painting

Alt Shift 0-9 — Mixer brush changes mix setting

0-9 — Mixer brush changes wet setting

00 — Mixer brush changes wet and mix to zero

Shift +/- — Cycle through blending modes

Backspace — Open fill dialog box on background or standard layer

Alt Backspace — Fill with foreground color

Ctrl Backspace — Fill with background color

Ctrl Alt Backspace — Fill from history

Shift Backspace — Displays fill dialog box

/ — Lock transparent pixels on/off

Use for blending modes

Ctrl -/+ — Cycle through blending modes

Shift Alt N — Normal

Shift Alt I — Dissolve

Shift Alt Q — Behind (brush tool only)

Shift Alt R — Clear (brush tool only)

Shift Alt K — Darken

Shift Alt M — Multiply

Shift Alt B — Color burn

Shift Alt A — Linear burn

Shift Alt G — Lighten

Shift Alt S — Screen

Shift Alt D — Color dodge

Shift Alt W — Linear dodge

Shift Alt O — Overlay

Shift Alt F — Soft light

Shift Alt H — Hard light

Shift Alt V — Vivid light

Shift Alt J — Linear light

Shift Alt Z — Pin light

Shift Alt L — Hard mix

Shift Alt E — Difference

Shift Alt X — Exclusion

Shift Alt U — Hue

Shift Alt T — Saturation

Shift Alt C — Color

Shift Alt Y — Luminosity

Shift Alt N — Set blending mode to Threshold for bitmap images, Normal for all other images

Format type

Ctrl Shift L/C/R — Align left, center, or right

Ctrl Shift X — Choose 100% horizontal scale

Ctrl Shift Alt X — Choose 100% vertical scale

Ctrl Shift Alt A — Choose auto leading

Ctrl Shift Q — Choose 0 for tracking

Ctrl Shift J — Justify paragraph, left aligns last line

Ctrl Shift F — Justify paragraph, justifies all

Ctrl Shift Alt H — Toggle paragraph hyphenation on/off

Ctrl Shift Alt T — Toggle single/every-line composer on/off

Ctrl Shift </> — Decrease or increase type size of selected text 2 points or pixels

Alt Up/Down — Decrease or increase leading 2 points or pixels

Shift Alt Up/Down — Decrease or increase baseline shift 2 points or pixels

Alt Left/Right — Decrease or increase kerning/tracking 20/1000 ems

Use panels

Shift Enter — Apply value and keep text box active

Tab — Show/Hide all panels

Shift Tab — Show/Hide all panels except the toolbox and options bar

Enter — Highlight options bar (select tool first)

Shift Up/Down — Increase/decrease selected values by 10

Use adjustment layers

Alt 3 — Choose red channel for adjustment

Alt 4 — Choose green channel for adjustment

Alt 5 — Choose blue channel for adjustment

Alt 2 — Choose composite channel for adjustment

Backspace — Delete adjustment layer

Use the Brush panel

,/. — Select previous/next brush size

Shift ,/. — Select first/last brush

Caps Lock — Display precise cross hair for brushes

Shift Alt P — Toggle airbrush option

Use the Clone Source panel

Alt Shift — Show Clone Source (overlays iamge)

Alt Shift (arrows) — Nudge Clone Source

Alt Shift </> — Rotate Clone Source

Alt Shift [/] — Scale (increase or reduce size) Clone Source

Use the Layers panel

Ctrl Shift N — New layer

Ctrl J — New layer via copy

Ctrl Shift J — New layer via cut

Ctrl G — Group layers

Ctrl Shift G — Ungroup layers

Ctrl Alt G — Create/release clipping mask

Ctrl Alt A — Select all layers

Ctrl Shift E — Merge visible layers

Alt . — Select top layer

Alt . — Select bottom layer

Shift Alt [/] — Add to layer selection in Layers panel

Alt [/] — Select next layer down/up

Ctrl [/] — Move target layer down/up

Ctrl Shift Alt E — Merge a copy of all visible layers into target layer

Ctrl E — Merge layers (while layers are highlighted)

Ctrl Shift [/] — Move layer to bottom or top

/ — Toggle lock transparency for target layer, or last applied lock

\ — Toggle rubylith mode for layer mask on/off