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Vital Shorcuts!
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These shorcuts below can come in really handy for many of you who perhaps can't find something. Using a shorcut will bring it right up. It is truly a simpler way of using Photoshop, and if you already use it, you notice how vital they are. Although all the shorcuts are not here, (as they are over 100 shorcuts in Photoshop), some pretty useful ones can be found below. Please have this list with you, as sometimes in tutorials-to-come, I may use shorcuts constantly, and I wouldn't want you to get lost, so remember to keep these around, print them, or have them accesible. Remember this list is for Adobe Photoshop CS2. Please note that the list may/may not vary with different versions, so take that into account. Here they are!
| Shorcut | Action |
| Ctrl+N | This will make a New Document! |
| Ctrl+O | This will open a Document |
| Ctrl+Z | This will Undo your last move. |
| Ctrl+Alt+Z | This will take a Step Backward (Undo more than one time). |
| Ctrl+Shift+Z | This will take a Step Forward (If you went too back with the above shorcut) |
| Ctrl+X | This will Cut a selected area in the image. (Select first, then cut) |
| Ctrl+C | This will Copy a selcted area in the image (Select first, then copy) |
| Ctrl+V | This will Paste a previously cut/copied image/text. |
| Ctrl+Backspace | This will fill the layer with your background color |
| F1 | Need some Help? |
| D | Reset Colors Palette (To Black and White) |
| Ctrl+I | Invert the colors in an image. |
| Ctrl+F | Repeat last Filter move. |
| Ctrl++ | Zoom Into the image. |
| Ctrl+- | Zoom Out of the image |
| Ctrl+Alt+I | Edit the Image Size to make it bigger/smaller. |
| Ctrl+U | Hue/Saturation(To colorize an image) |
| Ctrl+L | Levels (Black-Grey-White) |
| Ctrl+A | Select All (The whole layer) |
| Ctrl+S | Save your great project! |
| Ctrl+Shift+V | Paste into (a selection in the layer) |
| Alt+T | Shows the Filter drop-down menu. |
| Ctrl+Shift+O | Brings up the Blending Options for the layer. |
| Ctrl+Shift+N | Creates a New Layer |
| B | Makes your cursor the Brush |
| E | Makes your cursor the Eraser |
| L | Makes your cursor the Lasso Tool |
| P | Makes your cursor the Pen Tool |
| W | Makes your cursor the Magic Wand Tool |
| x | Switch Foreground/Background Colors |
| G | Makes your cursor the Gradient Tool |
| Ctrl+K | Brings up the General Preferences |
| Ctrl+P | Prints your great project :) |
| Ctrl+Alt+P | Print Preview your great project. |
| [ | Decrease the Brush Size (first obviously select the brush) |
| ] | Increase Brush Size (first obviously select the brush) |
| Ctrl+D | Deselect your current selection |
| Ctrl+W | Close the current document but not Photoshop itself. |
| Ctrl+Q | Exits all documents and closes Photoshop. |
**Note: Please remember that these are only some of the shorcuts, possibly ones you will use more. There are hundreds of shorcuts in Photoshop, I just highlighted some of the ones that seemed more relevant for you.
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