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Not a bad list.

Please make a cheat cheet ;-)

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

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.

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

Simply the best

Good work. Usefull

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

Cool idea for a post though

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!

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

@Carrie..

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

Thanks for putting the Mac equivalents…

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!

combo = combination, more than one thing at once

Good stuff!

amazing… thank ya SM for the photoshop moves :)

@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.

People use CS3 on PC?

Ultimate Flattener is a new one for me

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.

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!

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!

Great Stuff

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.

this list is better than bacon!

The real magic comes in using actions to eliminate keystrokes.

I’ve got #1 cued to F2.

One stroke.

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.

Way to go really useful list

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.

niiiice…but print version would be even better :)

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!

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.

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old stuff but still good

Great article, but where are the OS X shortcuts?

Would advise everyone to visit this source…great shortcuts

http://www.webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/photoshop-secret-shortcuts/

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…

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

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.

I am saying now “Its killer tips” many thanks

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

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

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

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!

To be honest… it’s mostly stuff I learned in school! what I need is the next level… anyone can find out any of these tricks (if you can call them that) by going to the help button in photoshop! what would be great is to learn more about combining effects and new ways of doing things to create stunning visuals… new ideals…