Shortcut Keys for Photoshop
F9
Brings up the Actions Panel
F5
Brings up the Brushes Panel
F6
Brings up the Color Panel
Shift+F5
Brings up the Fill Panel
F8
Brings up the Info Panel
F7
Brings up the Layers Panel
B
Brush, Pencil, Color Replacement, and Mixer Tools
S
Clone Stamp and Pattern Stamp Tools
Alt+Ctrl+W
Close All windows
Ctrl+W
Close window
Ctrl+C
Copy a selection
C
Crop, Perspective, Slice, and Slice Select Tools
Ctrl+X
Cut a selection
Ctrl+D
Deselect a selection
Alt+TAB
Displays a list of open application windows. Keeping Alt depressed and selecting Tab cycles through the list. Releasing selects the highlighted application window.
O
Dodge, Burn, and Sponge Tools
Q
Edit in Quick Mask Tool
E
Eraser, Background Eraser, Magic Eraser Tools
I
Eyedropper, Color Sampler, Ruler, Note, and Count Tools
Ctrl+T
Free Transform
G
Gradient, Paint Bucket Tools
H
Hand Tool
Ctrl+H
Hide selection line (marching ants)
Y
History Brush and Art History Brush Tools
T
Horizontal Type, Vertical Type, Horizontal Mask, and Vertical Mask Tools
Ctrl+L
Image > Adjustments > Levels
L
Lasso, Polygonal Lasso, Magnetic Lasso Tools
Ctrl+J
Layer > New > Layer Via Copy
Ctrl+E
Merge Layers
V
Move Tool
Ctrl+N
New Document
Ctrl+O
Open dialogue box to select file
Ctrl+V
Paste a selection
A
Path Selection and Direct Selection Tools
P
Pen and Freeform Pen Tools
Ctrl+P
W
Quick Selection and Magic Wand Tools
Ctrl+Q
Quit or Exit
U
Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle, Ellipse, Polygon, Line, Custom Shape Tools
M
Rectangular and Elliptical Marquee Tools
D
Resets foreground/background to black/white
R
Rotate Tool
Ctrl+R
Rulers
Ctrl+R
Rulers toggle on and off
Ctrl+S
Save
Ctrl+Shift+S
Save As
Ctrl+A
Select > All
J
Spot Healing, Healing, Patch, Content-Aware, and Red Eye Tools
X
Switches Foreground and Background Colors
Ctrl+Z
Undo last step
F1
While working in an application, depressing this key will bring up the applications Help menu. If there is no open application F1 will open Windows Help.
Z
Zoom Tool
Ctrl+1
Zooms to 100%
Ctrl+0
Zooms to Fit Screen
