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By default, Photoshop comes packed with keyboard shortcuts that you can use to speed up your
workflow. What you might not know however is that there are also a lot of commands that do not have
keyboard shortcuts assigned to them. In this tutorial, we will show you a few of our favorite custom
keyboard shortcuts that you can use to work much faster in Photoshop. Lets get started!
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1. Show, Hide, and Isolate LayersThis one is a big time saver. Once you start using it, you will never click on the eye icons in the Layers
Panelever again. The great thing about setting up a custom keyboard shortcut for this feature is that it can
turn on or off the visibility of a selected layer or layers. This makes it especially useful. If you want to
check your composition without a specific layer or set of layers, all you need to do is select them and
press the shortcut you assigned to the Show/Hide Layerscommand.
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Set F3to Show/Hide layer. Set Command/Ctrl + F3on a selected layer to isolate it.
2. Convert to Smart Objects and Edit Contents
Smart Objects are probably the most important element of a non-destructive workflow in Photoshop, but
strangely there is no default shortcut assigned to them. I like to use two shortcuts with Smart Objects, one
for converting layers into them and one to edit their contents. For editing a Smart Objects contents you
can also double click on the layers thumbnail, but that also takes time. Around 1 second each time you do
it, but if you have to do that around 100 times a day that means you have wasted 2 minutes. That is 10
minutes a week and around 10 hours a year. One simple custom shortcut can save you a whole working
day a year.
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Set F5to Convert to Smart Objects. Set Command/Ctrl + F5to edit its contents.
3. Adjustments and Properties Panels
The process of showing and hiding panels can also be assigned keyboard shortcuts. I prefer to use the
function keys for this as they can be used without having to hold down Command/Ctrltogether with
them. I have custom shortcuts assigned to these two panels as they are the ones I always want to see or
hide. I dont like having them always visible because they take up quite a lot of real estate on the screen.
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Set Command/Ctrl + Fto arrange as tiles. Set Command/Ctrl + Shift + Fto consolidate all
to Tabs.
5. Camera Raw Filter
The Camera Raw filter makes it possible to use all the features of the Camera Raw plug-in directly in any
of your layers in Photoshop. You can even use them completely non-destructively as Smart Filters if youapply them to a Smart Object.
This new filter was introduced in Photoshop CC and it came with no default keyboard shortcuts. I love to
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work with Camera Raw adjustments so I immediately assigned a shortcut to it and it saves me a lot of
time. This filter can only be used in RGB mode but there is a trick that will allow you to use it in a
CMYK document. If the Smart Objects source is set to RGB, the main document can still be in CMYK
color mode.
Set Command/Ctrl + Shift + Rto activate the Camera Raw Filter.
6. Convert to Paragraph/Point Text
There are two ways to create separate, fully editable Type layers in Photoshop. If you just click with the
Type Tool anywhere on the canvas you will create a Point Type Layer, which wont automatically breakthe lines of your text. For automatic line-break you will need to create a Paragraph Type Layer, for
which you need to click and drag with the Type Tool on the canvas to define an area for the paragraph. In
the type menu, you will find a feature that can convert these two types to one another.
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Set Command/Ctrl + Shift + Pto convert to Paragraph/Point text.
7. Deselect All Layers
In some cases you might want to make sure that you dont have any layers selected in Photoshop. For
that, there is no default keyboard shortcut, but there is a feature under the Select Menu called Deselect
Layers. I like to use Command/Ctrl + Shift + Afor this, that keyboard shortcut performs the same task
in InDesign by default.
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Set Command/Ctrl + Shift + Ato Deselect All Layers.
8. Share on Behance
Behance is a great addition to the Creative Cloud set of services. Once you have an account you can linkthat to Photoshop and save any of your work directly from Photoshop into your portfolio on Behance. I
use this option frequently so I decided to set up a custom shortcut for it, which is similar to saving the file
to the desktop (Command/Ctrl + Alt + Shift + S). You can upload your work-in-progress to Behance, as
well, and re-upload it at every stage. This will make the whole revision process much faster between you
and your client.
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Set Command/Ctrl + Alt + Shift + Sto share your work on Behance.
9. Show/Hide All Effects
In documents where you have several layers with Layer Styles it might be difficult to quickly check the
effect of all the Layer Styles used in the document. With the Show/Hide All Effectscommand from the
Layer menu you can do this easily but it can be even faster by assigning a custom keyboard shortcut to it.
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Set Command/Ctrl + Shift + Hto Show/Hide All Effects.
10. Mixer Brush ToolLast but not least, it is worth mentioning that the Mixer Brush deserves its own unique custom keyboard
shortcut. This tool is mainly used together with the Brush Tool, which is set Bby default. So why not
assign Nto the Mixer Brush, which is directly next to Bon the keyboard? Nby default is assigned to a
3D Tool, but that tool is used much less than the Mixer Brush Tool, which can beautifully merge
different colors together and can even reduce the noise of your photos.
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Set the Nkey to the Mixer Brush Tool.
Additional Reading
For more information about setting custom keyboard shortcuts, take a look at the following URLs.
Universal Custom Keyboard Shortcuts
Photoshops Default Keyboard Shortcuts
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By Martin PerhiniakMartin is a Hungarian graphic designer, digital artist and an Adobe Certified Expert and Instructor
(Design Master). He is currently teaching and working in London but usually travels around the UK and
share his love for Adobe products and graphic design. You can follow him on his blogor on Twitter.
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