Our overview shows a selection of the most important Photoshop shortcuts - in addition to the standard keyboard shortcuts, you can also define your own shortcuts, perfectly adapted to your own workflow and personal way of working, to improve your pro­ductiv­ity in Adobe Photoshop. To define your own shortcuts, you have to select the menu under "Edit > Keyboard Commands" (the ap­pro­pri­ate shortcut is Alt + Shift + Ctrl + K). The "Keyboard Commands and Menus" dialog box opens. There you can see the Photoshop default set and also create a new set for your own commands. Every user can define in­di­vidu­al shortcuts for further ap­plic­a­tion menus, control panel menus or tools.

File Photoshop shortcuts (PC/Mac)

Result Windows Mac OS
New… Ctrl + N Cmd + N
Open… Ctrl + O Cmd + O
Browse in Bridge Alt + Ctrl + O Cmd + Option + O
Open As… Alt + Shift + Ctrl + O Cmd + Shift + Option + O
Close Ctrl + W Cmd + W
Close All… Alt + Ctrl + W Alt + Cmd + W
Close and Go to Bridge Shift + Ctrl + W Cmd + Shift + W
Save Ctrl + S Cmd + S
Save As… Alt + Ctrl + S Cmd + Shift + S
Save for Web… Alt + Shift + Ctrl + S Cmd + Option + Shift + S
Revert F12 F12
File Info… Alt + Shift + Ctrl + I Cmd + Shift + Option + I
Print… Ctrl + P Cmd + P
Finish Ctrl + Q Cmd + Q

Photoshop tricks for editing images

Result Windows Mac OS
Undo Ctrl + Z Cmd + Z
Step Forward Shift + Ctrl + Z Cmd + Shift + Z
Cut Ctrl + X Cmd + X
Copy Ctrl + C Cmd + C
Copy Merged Shift + Ctrl + C Cmd + Shift + V
Paste Ctrl + V Cmd + V
Paste in Place Shift + Ctrl + V Cmd + Shift + V
Paste Into Alt + Shift + Ctrl + V Cmd + Shift + Option + V
Fill… Shift + F5 Shift + F5
Content-Aware Scale Shift + Ctrl + Q Cmd + Shift + Q
Free Transform Ctrl + T Cmd + T
Select All Ctrl + A Cmd + A
Invert Selection Ctrl + Shift + I Cmd + Shift + I
Select All Layers Ctrl + Alt + A Cmd + Shift + A
Deselect Ctrl + D Cmd + D

Photoshop shortcuts for ori­ent­a­tion

Result Windows Mac OS
Colour Settings… Shift + Ctrl + K Cmd + Shift + K
Keyboard Shortcuts… Alt + Shift + Ctrl + K Cmd + Shift + Option + K
Menus… Alt + Shift + Ctrl + M Cmd + Shift + Option + M
General Pref­er­ences… Ctrl + K Cmd + K

Photoshop tricks for images

Result Windows Mac OS
Adjust Levels… Ctrl + L Cmd + L
Adjust Curves… Ctrl + M Cmd + M
Adjust Hue/Sat­ur­a­tion… Ctrl + U Cmd + U
Adjust Colour Balance… Ctrl + B Cmd + B
Black & White… Alt + Shift + Ctrl + B Cmd + Shift + Option + B
Invert Ctrl + I Cmd + I
De­sat­ur­ate Shift + Ctrl+ U Cmd + Shift + U
Auto Tone Shift + Ctrl + L Cmd + Shift + L
Auto Contrast Alt + Shift + Ctrl + L Cmd + Shift + Option + L
Auto Colour Shift + Ctrl + B Cmd + Shift + B
Image Size… Alt + Ctrl + I Cmd + Option + I
Canvas Size… Alt + Ctrl + C Cmd + Option + C

Photoshop shortcuts for layers

Result Windows Mac OS
New Layer… Shift + Ctrl + N Cmd + Shift + N
New Layer via Copy Ctrl + J Cmd + J
New Layer via Cut Shift + Ctrl + J Cmd + Shift + J
Create/Release Clipping Mask Alt + Ctrl + G Cmd + Option + G
Group Layers Ctrl + G Cmd + G
Ungroup Layers Shift + Ctrl + G Cmd + Shift + G
Merge Visible Layers Shift + Ctrl + E Cmd + Shift + E

Arrange Layers

Result Windows Mac OS
Bring to Front Shift + Ctrl + ] Cmd + Shift + ]
Bring Forward Ctrl + ] Cmd + ]
Send Backward Ctrl + [ Cmd + [
Send to Back Shift + Ctrl + [ Cmd + Shift + [
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