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50 of the most useful and important Photoshop shortcuts that everyone should know!

Familiarity with the most basic Photoshop shortcuts is one of the most basic things to speed up the work process. What we share in this post is the introduction of 50 of the most important and most widely used shortcuts in Photoshop.

You may go to this industry to create attractive and quality photos or correct old photos, or better to say, professional photo editor software. 

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The following table shows 50 shortcuts in Photoshop:

Row
shortcut keys
The resulting changes
1
Right-click on an empty space
Used to change the background color, which is dark gray by default. You can choose Black to completely darken   .
2
Hold Alt and click the Reset button
Used to reset all changes in a dialog box.
3
Shift and companies
For  the selection of a next subset of the tools used.
4
Ctrl and scroll with the mouse wheel
Used to move the photo left and right.
5
Ctrl + Tab
It is used to switch between tabs and actually activate the next tab.
6
Ctrl + Shift + Tab is used             to switch between tabs, except that the  previous tab is activated.
7
CapsLock
Change the mouse pointer to precise mode in the design document
8
Marquee tool
Use the Marquee tool to draw a selection area on the document, and when it reaches the desired size, do not release the mouse button, and while the mouse button is pressed, hold down the Spacebar key and move the mouse to the selected area to the desired location. Move
9
Alt + Ctrl
Press Alt + Ctrl and the number corresponding to the desired color layer to select that channel.
10
CapsLock
Change the mouse pointer to precise mode in the design document
11
Alt + Delete (foreground) Ctrl + Delete (background)
Fill
12
Ctrl + Alt + Shift + E
Flatten
13
Ctrl + Shift + E
Merge Visible Layers
14
Ctrl + J
New layer by copying
15
Ctrl + Shift + J
New layer by Cut
16
Ctrl + Shift +]
Bring layer to stack
17
Ctrl + Shift + [
Send layer under stack
18
Ctrl +]
Send layer forward
19
Ctrl + [
Send layer back
20
Shift + Ctrl + C
Multi-layer copying
21
Ctrl + Shift
Selecting
22
Ctrl + Shift + D
Reselect
23
Ctrl + Shift + I
Invert selection
24
Ctrl + Alt + A
Select all layers
25
Alt + Comma (,)
Select the lowest layer
26
Alt + Period (.)
Select the highest layer
27
Alt + drag
Deselect from the selected area
28
Shift + Alt + drag
Remove all areas from the selection except the drawn area
29
Ctrl + D
Remove the entire image from the selection
30
Spacebar + Marquee Tool
Move a selection
31
(Blue)  , 5  (green)  , 4  (red)  Ctrl + 3
Select a separate channel
32
Alt + Brush Tool
Choose a color from an image
33
] / [
Decrease / increase brush size
34
} / {
Decrease / increase the hardness of the brush
35
, /.
Next / previous brush
36
Shift + Alt + P
Change the status to the airbrush option
37
Ctrl + Shift + Alt + S
Save for web and devices
38
Ctrl + T
Free Transform
39
Ctrl + B
Color Balance
40
Ctrl + U
Hue / Saturation
41
Ctrl + Shift + U
Desaturate
42
Shift + Ctrl + L
Automatic Tone
43
Shift + Ctrl + B
Automatic coloring
44
(-) Shift + plus (+) or minus
Blending modes
45
Shift + Ctrl + Alt + B
Black and white dialog box
46
Ctrl + Alt + i
Resize the image
47
Alt + Ctrl + X
Find / hide polygons inside the selection (Polygons)
48
Alt + Shift + Ctrl + X
Reveal polygons
49
Ctrl + Alt + Shift +> / <
Decrease / increase the size of the selected text by 10pts
50
Ctrl + Shift +> / <
Decrease / increase the size of the selected text by 2pts

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