Helpful Common Photoshop CS4 Shortcuts
A lot of time can be spent in Photoshop clicking between menu items and palette buttons. Learning a few Photoshop CS4 shortcuts can really help you to work more efficiently. Here are some of the most common Photoshop keyboard shortcuts that I use.
| New Document | Ctrl+N |
| Open | Ctrl+O |
| switch between open Photoshop files | Ctrl+Tab |
| Save | Ctrl+S |
| Cut | Ctrl+X |
| Copy | Ctrl+C |
| Paste | Ctrl+V |
| Undo | Ctrl+Z |
| Redo | Ctrl+Y |
| Step Backward | Ctrl+Alt+Z |
| Select All | Ctrl+A |
| Deselect | Ctrl+D |
| Select Inverse | Ctrl + Shift +I |
| Switch Foreground/Background Colors | X |
| New Layer | Ctrl+Shift+N |
| New Layer via Copy | Ctrl+J |
| Free Transform | Ctrl+T |
| Zoom in | CTRL + + |
| Zoom out | CTRL + - |
| Help | F1 |
To see all the Photoshop CS4 keyboard shortcuts open Photoshop and click on Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts > Summarize
You can see a list of all the default Photoshop CS4 shortcuts here. There is also a downloadable Photoshop CS4 Shortcut Cheat Sheet here.
In my next post I will show you how you can customize Photoshop CS4 shortcuts.
