Adobe Photoshop is a widely used digital design software by graphic designers, web designers, digital artists, photographers, and numerous other professionals. Adobe Photoshop offers a comprehensive range of features to enable users to edit photos, retouch images, as well as create detailed digital art. Key features include text tools, photo editing tools, selection tools, filters, effects, brush tools, smart objects, retouching tools, 3D capabilities, and integration with other Adobe Creative Cloud services and applications.
The following popular web keyboard shortcuts will greatly improve your efficiency with Adobe Photoshop on your Mac.
- Move tool V
- Transform tool OPT+CMD+T
- Lasso tool L
- Quick selection tool W
- Rectangular marquee tool M
- Elliptical marquee tool M
- Switch between Marquee tools SHIFT+M
- Brush tool B
- Eraser tool E
- Paint Bucket tool G
- Gradient tool G
- Switch between Paint bucket and Gradient tool SHIFT+G
- Spot healing brush tool J
- Clone stamp tool S
- Eyedropper tool I
- Switch foreground and background colors X
- Undo CMD+Z
- Redo SHIFT+CMD+Z
- Select all CMD+A
- Deselect CMD+D
- Reselect SHIFT+CMD+D
- Invert selection SHIFT+CMD+I
- Invert image CMD+I
- Zoom in CMD++
- Zoom out CMD--
- Zoom to fit CMD+0
- Zoom to 100% CMD+1
- Zoom to 200% CMD+2
- Save CMD+S
- Export OPT+SHIFT+CMD+W
- File Info OPT+SHIFT+CMD+I
- New layer OPT+SHIFT+CMD+N
- New layer via copy CMD+J
- New layer via cut SHIFT+CMD+J
- Create/Release Clipping mask OPT+CMD+G
- Group layers CMD+G
- Ungroup layers SHIFT+CMD+G
- Hide layers CMD+,
- Select all layers OPT+CMD+A
- Select top layer OPT+.
- Select bottom layer OPT+,
- Bring to front OPT+CMD+]
- Bring forward CMD+]
- Send backward CMD+[
- Send to back OPT+CMD+[
- Lock layers CMD+/
- Merge layers CMD+E
- Merge visible SHIFT+CMD+E
- Show settings CMD+K
- Keyboard shortcuts OPT+SHIFT+CMD+
