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

Default Photoshop CS4 Shortcuts

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.

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2 Responses to “Helpful Common Photoshop CS4 Shortcuts”

  1. diversal Says:
    August 19th, 2009 at 2:50 pm

    cool, this is an awesome list of shortcuts. thanks heaps i only knew a quarter of these before finding this!

    check out http://www.crapixels.blogspot.com to check out my photoshop exploits

  2. manisha Says:
    November 26th, 2009 at 4:54 pm

    Hi All,
    wanna learn a new definition of A,B,C,D….come to my blog and learn the new shortcuts and ticks of working fast in Photoshop.

    http://www.amkaysweb.blogspot.com/

    You can find lots of shortcuts. For details contact me @ amkaysweb@gmail.com

    Thanks,
    Manisha

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