Do you love using Photoshop for digital scrapbooking or to edit photos?
Would you like to do things a bit quicker? If so, then check out a few of these handy shortcuts in Photoshop to speed up your workflow!
A Few Handy Photoshop Shortcuts:
Ctrl+Z – Undo last step
Ctrl + A Select All
Ctrl+D – Deselect
Shift + Ctrl+I – Inverse selection
Alt+Del – fill in selection with Foreground color
Ctrl+Del – fill in selection with Background color
Ctrl+J – make new layer with selection
Ctrl+Alt +N – create new document
Ctrl+Shift+E – merge visible layers
Ctrl+B – Color Balance
Ctrl+L – Levels
Ctrl+M – Curves
Ctrl+U – Hue/saturation
(Mac users – in general when you see Alt then substitute it for the Option Key, and for Ctrl then substitute it for the Cmd Key.)
Have some fun and try these shortcuts and see if it helps you move quicker though your Photoshop tasks!
Enjoy!
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