Very good !

Not a bad list.

Flawless Victory!

Brilliant as usual!

Please make a cheat cheet ;-)

Great, infinite dupe is extremely helpful. Cloak of invisibilty aswell, but knew that before.

Yep, all the combo’s I use on a daily basis. Love the keyboard!

Good article - though it’s not really a “Top Ten List” - not the authors fault really since SM put the restrictions on the contest.

A top ten list should have some sort of priority or order in the list from good to bad or bad to good - this is nothing other than a list (though a good one) of Photoshop shortcuts in no order whatsoever. For example, as a pure graphic designer, I never use #2 / #1 as I have no need for them (though copy selection to new image is of course handy).

Anyway, just a shame that this article couldn’t have been more free to be like “Killer Photoshop Combo Moves!” and not worry about the Top Ten structure. I bet the author could have made 15 / 20 (or even more) that would have been even better!

All in all, good work. No idea how 1200 character articles are going to try and compete with monsters like this though…

Definitely the best contest article so far. “Finish him” move (Mortal Kombat paraphrase) has been my favorite combo for years now.

an even quicker way to merge the layers quickly, is simply to hit ctrl+shift+alt+e this makes a new layer with all the visible layers merged.

I love this article especially because it reminds me of fighting games. Now I’m going to use photoshop and think I’m a Tekken character. It just totally makes PS more fun!

Great list, there’s quite a few there I didn’t know. :o

Does anyone know how can you select color in Photoshop from Firefox? Once I saw that trick but I forgot shortkeys.

Simply the best

This is an fantastic article. The title really caught my eye in Google Reader ;D

Good work. Usefull

Thanks for the list, but, will there be a MAC version?

Agreed- would it have been so hard to add in the mac versions too?!

Cool idea for a post though

maybe a little pedantic but intro goes “These combos assume you’re using Photoshop CS3 on Windows platform.” Then the main image is of a Mac?

Good and useful article, best so far of competition entries.

That’s a superb title image. I like how it’s slightly tilted and shows the edge of the MacBook Pro screen, too. A “how to make” tutorial might be in suitable order!

مختصر و مفید

Excuse me, I’m Italian and I don’t totally get the meaning of the word “combo”. Is it something like actions?

alt+shift+ctrl+K — and all shortcut u can learn manualy. And what good in that post?

@Carrie..

No, there won’t. A Mac version may, however.

Thanks for this reminder!

Loved the names!

“taste a taste of my gaussian attack, you evil multi-layered-rasterized psd!!!!!”
^_^

Thanks for putting the Mac equivalents…

Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S is my bestfriend

Hey everyone. Thanks for checking out my article! In response to some of the comments, tonight I’m going to whip up a printable cheat sheet which will include the Mac shortcuts. Be on the lookout!

Nice idea, poor execution. I was excited when I saw the headline of the post, and then the image of CS3 on a Mac. But wait… : \

Not all designers use PCs… come on SM. Posting shortcuts for both PC and Mac would be the least I would expect.

combo = combination, more than one thing at once

Simple, alot of these are just experience. You need to learn the hotkeys, and get used to them.

And it really works well for those who don’t know these things, to read articles like this.
Thanks alot for sharing it.

Good stuff!

Incredbly creative execution. Most of these people probably already know but I actually wanted to read through the entire list.

Great Job.

amazing… thank ya SM for the photoshop moves :)

all seemed good to me - i may have been reading this wrong but not sure why you also need the alt key to select multiple layers. In CS3 you just need to shift or ctrl select.

My favorite shortcut: alt+scroll wheel

@Lucifix (#13): Select the Eyedropper Tool, click and hold down mousebutton, switch to Firefox (Alt+Tab), move to the color you want, release mousebutton. Voilà.

Flawless victory!
Finish him!:)
Killer moves man, you got me:)

People use CS3 on PC?

I remember when I (accidentally) discovered the tab key would hide your palettes . I was Apple + tabbing too fast, and totally panicked when all my palettes disappeared! It was a very sad day indeed.

Seriously, nice article Tom - very handy shortcuts.

Thanks!

Ultimate Flattener is a new one for me

I use the web extractor all the time. Never thought anything of it.

How stupid to you have to be to not realize that the only difference between Mac and PC shortcuts is that the ctrl key = the command key.

Replace where you see “ctrl” with “command” and stop your bitching.

Papa’s got a brand new bag..

Great info, but it would be nice to have both the PC & MAC platform keyboard notes. Yes I know I can figure it out, sometimes we designers are just lazy!

You could put the keys in the KBD tags and style it a bit.

I have been using Photoshop for a few years now… I find the most useful tool in the PS arsenal is one that is very rarely used.. even by a lot of advanced users. The Keyboard Shortcuts option. Everyone has their own style of using Photoshop.. there are a ton of shortcuts that I NEVER use.. and there are some that I use more than others… It really helps to customize your shortcuts to tools/filters/options that you actually use. For instance.. Sure F5 pops up brushes… but I almost always have that pane open anyways.. So i switched out F5 to “Convert to Smart Object”.

Even though I know the majority of these steps/shortcuts from being self taught.. It’s great to have someone really show how useful and powerful keyboard shortcuts really are.. they save so much time!! Great article!

As a rookie to PS, I can use all the tips I can get. Thanks!

Great Stuff

It’s missing the best shortcut ever.

Ctrl + Alt + Right Click
Selects the layer directly under your cursor, without fail.

I don’t know how much time this has saved me since I found it.

Number 3 can easily be condensed into ctrl (cmd) + shift + e to merge all visible layers.

Otherwise, excellent list. There’s always something to learn in photoshop.

Oh my god, the final one is going to save me so much time!

@Hamish M — NO WAY! You’re my new hero. Until now, I’ve been hitting V -> Ctrl-Left Click to select layers, being able to do it without switching tools is going to be fantastic!

this list is better than bacon!

good list. do it for fireworks and illustrator too :)
thanks

The real magic comes in using actions to eliminate keystrokes.

I’ve got #1 cued to F2.

One stroke.

Hey everyone.

I put together a pdf cheat sheet for anyone interested. It can be downloaded from my site at: Link [www.attasi.com]

Thanks to all for viewing/voting/commenting!

The title made me laugh! Witty ;).

It’s interesting seeing photoshop combinations presented in a combo to yield a net result, cool. Although the article could probably be assuaged even more with some screenshots that give an overview of the result.

up up down down left right left right b a select start

Way to go really useful list

its a basic, not bad

Userful but very old!
This all are old shortcuts………!
Offcourse a little bit additions to CS3, more like layer shifting/selecting (other than 7.0)

Here are some of the tricks for photoshop (this may know for few)

To change the background color
1. Selct “Paint Bucket” Tool (Press G)
2. Choose your color (Foreground)
3. Shift click on the background

Note: This option will not work in fullscreen mode.

Hold down Shift + Alt and then press “+” to cycle through blending modes on the selected layer.

Very helpful.

niiiice…but print version would be even better :)

This makes everything so much easier. You should write a book.

Excellent article! Love this site.

The extractor tip is useful for me. I usually do an Alt+i, D to duplicate the image, then Alt+L, F to flatten the image, and then crop from there. Your tip is much more intuitive and logical. Thanks so much!

@Andrew Wilkinson
Glad to help. Spread the word! :)

I think it’s good but not excelent cause you didn’t include any mac shortcuts. It could have been excellent if you did. Great work on it though.

this is a great compilation of keyboard shortcuts and it’s written in a very unique way. good job.

Smashing

merge all visible layers:
PC: shift+ctrl+E
MAC: shift+apple+E

old stuff but still good

list of all photoshop CS3 keyboard shortcuts.
Link [morris-photographics.com]

Great article, but where are the OS X shortcuts?

Hamish M, I think it’s more simple to use Ctrl + left click. It does the same thing:)

Would advise everyone to visit this source…great shortcuts

Link [www.webdesignerwall.com]

no.1 I can do while sleeping :D
good collection that, thank you…

3. could be

Ctrl Alt Shift N => new Layer without dial box
Ctrl Shift E => Merge All into current Layer

so you merge all without loosing all the layers…

CTRL+S it’s our best friend =))

This list is excelent :D

Yeah, no Mac equivs is lazy. I’ve got #3 in an action via Shift +F1.

Looks like I was late to the party. Great tutorials…now I’ve got to use them often enough that they stick!

I don’t know if there’s a shortcut key, but the way I do it is to make the Photoshop window smaller, so you can see the browser, and whatever color you wanted to select, then, after selecting the Eye Dropper tool, click and hold the mouse button down, then drag it out into the browser window.

You’ll see the color change in the palette. When you have the color you want, just let go of the mouse button.

C-C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER!

I am saying now “Its killer tips” many thanks

suck!!!!

i need more infomation. not this kind of shit. this is not helping me……!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

like shit

nothing fresh has not heard, but don’t care thank you for labour

I never get into the position where “time’s kickin’ my ass”. If you get that pressed, well, something’s wrong somewhere.

와우 정말 멋진데요~!

Many Thanks for this. Probably one of my favorite article.

lol you have a MacBook Pro on the pic but all of those commands are for Windows xD

excellent tips, Many many thanx for this

Nice. Since I’m on PS all day almost every day, I use most of these and they have saved my life. I see some I didn’t know that I will be using, especially Layers.

Also, if you’re doing mad crazy pen paths (I do color corrections for luxury retail products that have lots of zippers, linings and general funky details that require tons of selections) , my top time-savers are using the space bar to move rapidly around the image, option to change my bezier handle direction simultaneously while drawing path, and cmd to move a point of path around if I miss my mark. Those and a really huge monitor and Wacom also help!

Co co-co-co-co-co-co-combo breaker!!! lmao thanks for such usseful info!!!