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June 28th, 2009

Shortcuts make life easy

Filed under: Web Design 303

Keyboard shortcuts, I mean. The following lists are of keyboard shortcuts that I’m glad were invented – alternatively, those shortcuts I use almost on a daily basis. You probably are aware of most of them.

Top Firefox Shortcuts:

  1. CTRL + T: Open Tab
  2. CTRL + L: Jump to location/address bar
  3. CTRL + K: Jump to Google search bar on right
  4. CTRL + W: Close Tab
  5. CTRL + Click link: Open link in a new tab
  6. CTRL + D: Delicious bookmark (needs Delicious Add-on installed)
  7. CTRL + +/- : Increase and decrease font size respectively.

Top Photoshop Shortcuts:

  1. CTRL + ALT + Z: multiple Undos as far as History will allow
  2. CTRL + J: Duplicate Layer
  3. CTRL + SHIFT + N: New Layer
  4. CTRL + G: Group selected layers
  5. CTRL + F: Apply recently used Filter
  6. CTRL + ALT + SHIFT + E: Stamp all visible layers without merging
  7. CTRL + ALT + C: Canvas Resize
  8. CTRL + ALT + I: Image Resize
  9. CTRL + T: Free Transform

Earlier I used to think that Photoshop could really do with more default keyboard shortcuts. What I did not realize was that there are actually so many more.

A little reading up and I was happy to find more useful keyboard shortcuts that I know will come in handy. You may as well have a look at them yourself:

  » 18 Exceptional Useful Photoshop Shortcuts

  » 28 More Exceptionally Useful Photoshop Shortcuts

  » Photoshop Secret Shortcuts