Daily Archive for August 23rd, 2007

photoshop shortcuts

Recently I’ve been photoshop-ing a fair bit as I’m making posters/website for an upcoming event for a student society. By accident, I found a shortcut that did exactly what I wanted! The elusive shortcut ctrl+alt+shift+e creates a new layer of whatever you see on the screen right now (or ’stamp visible’ in photoshop terminology).

So after the amazing discovery, decided to put up a few photoshop shortcuts that I feel are essential. I’m no photoshop guru, but these are the shortcuts that I probably can’t live without. I’m using Photoshop CS2, but most these shortcuts should probably work with most versions of photoshop. Seems like Adobe likes multi-keyed shortcuts, so organised them into the number of keys on the keyboard you need to press - wonder if there are any more than 4!

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