I admit it – I take way too long overanalyzing which photos to use, and which papers and elements to choose. I need every shortcut I can get when I create a layout so my children and husband don’t think my bottom is surgically fused to my computer chair.
One of the biggest time savers for me has been using keyboard shortcuts. Photoshop drop down menus become cumbersome when you’re repeatedly having to hunt down Edit>transform each time you want to change the size of an element.
Trevor Morris Photographics has a comprehensive cheat sheet full of keyboard shortcuts that you can download for free. And the best part of this cheat sheet is that it is available for seven different versions of Photoshop and even Adobe Bridge and Adobe Camera Raw users.
Happy speedy scrapping! And tell me what you think, my friends!
Heather (hedderlee)
April 11th, 2009 at 7:49 am
Wow, great tip! Downloading that cheat sheet now…definitely a time-saver!
April 11th, 2009 at 8:41 am
I bet those will save a lot of my time
Thank you so much, Heather for posting this! xx
April 11th, 2009 at 8:51 am
Shortcuts are great! I love to make my own shortcuts too- transform>scale is now my F2 key!!
April 11th, 2009 at 8:58 am
Jenny, I guarantee you’ll be using at least one ALL the time!
April 11th, 2009 at 8:58 am
Thanks, Gabi.
April 11th, 2009 at 8:59 am
Katherine, I totally forgot to mention that you can make your own hotkeys too. Excellent!
April 11th, 2009 at 9:56 am
I love working with shortcuts too! Thanks for the link, you never know if there is one I haven’t tried yet
April 11th, 2009 at 10:23 am
Sandra, you’ll be amazed just how many commands we actually don’t even know about! Photoshop’s a powerful tool. Hope you get lots of use out of the cheat sheet.
April 11th, 2009 at 3:16 pm
Glad you all find the shortcuts useful. Thanks for the kind words.
April 14th, 2009 at 8:02 pm
Heather – thanks for that awesome link!!
April 21st, 2009 at 3:22 pm
Brilliant! Thank you!
May 4th, 2009 at 3:07 pm
WooHoo !! This has to be one of the most complete lists of shortcuts I’ve ever seen! Thanks for the tip!
May 11th, 2009 at 4:54 am
hey thanks for the cheat sheet…i have downloaded it..and itz amazing….
October 6th, 2009 at 3:40 am
Thanks for the link to this! Every little bit helps and it’s so nice of you to share with us all!