Shortcuts

[apalmiter]

Could you go through all the handy keyboard and mouse shortcuts for photoshop. You often get to things very easily, ie. changing a tool, a brush, a zoom, etc. I know how to set them and change them, but I often have friends asking the question.
Thanks,
Adam

[phirewerk]

I need to learn How to do hair, Grass or animal fur , they pretty much
have the same texture. My hair looks like cow lick! too shiny I want a
stringy type of look, I love the show. Its the best.

[yacoub]

Could you go through all the handy keyboard and mouse shortcuts for photoshop. You often get to things very easily, ie. changing a tool, a brush, a zoom, etc. I know how to set them and change them, but I often have friends asking the question.
Thanks,
Adam

Yes I agree! I've already picked up a couple from the show but often they go unmentioned.

One I remember is Alt+Backspace (on Windows keyboard) will fill your layer with the Foreground color.

[syntaxsk8er]

Could you go through all the handy keyboard and mouse shortcuts for photoshop. You often get to things very easily, ie. changing a tool, a brush, a zoom, etc. I know how to set them and change them, but I often have friends asking the question.
Thanks,
Adam

If you hover your cursor over the tool icons you get the shortcut key for that tool. If the tool has different tools within it, you can hold your shift key and continue to press the particular shortcut key to cycle through the different tools. Once you use a tool long enough you will remember the keys.

As far as other quick shortcut keys I can think of at the momemt:

To enter quick mask mode: Q
To enter full screen mode: F
Create clipping group: Hold ALT (option on MAC) key and click between the layers.
Decrease/Increase master diameter of brush: Left/Right bracket keys.
Change the level of opacity in increments of ten: While having the move tool selected (V), Keys 1-0.
Fill selection with foreground color: ALT (option key) + Backspace
Fill selection with background color: Control (command key on the MAC I believe) + Backspace
Duplicate a layer: control (command on MAC) + J

This list is not even close to being complete, so feel free to continue it.

[kshep92]

I find the deselction shortcut - Ctrl+D to be most useful as well as the apply transformation shortcut - Enter.