Photoshop® CS5 Bible

Appendix A. Keyboard Shortcuts

IN THIS APPENDIX

• Standard toolbar shortcuts

• Common menu command shortcuts

• Extended toolbar shortcuts

Learning keyboard shortcuts is one of the best ways to improve your performance and experience with Photoshop. With hundreds of tools and menus, navigating using the mouse can take time. Knowing the keyboard shortcuts for actions you frequently perform makes editing faster and less cumbersome.

The purpose of this appendix is to give you a sample of the most common shortcuts you will encounter in Photoshop. Table A.1 lists the shortcuts for the tools in the Toolbox in the standard edition of Photoshop CS5. Table A.2 lists some of the most commonly used menu options, such as opening files and levels adjustments. Table A.3 lists the shortcuts for the tools in the Toolbox that are provided with Photoshop CS5 Extended.

Table A.1. Standard Toolbar Shortcuts

Photoshop CS5 Standard Toolbar	PC Shortcut	Mac Shortcut
Move tool	V	V
Rectangular Marquee tool	M	M
Cycle Marquee tools	Shift+M	Shift+M
Lasso tool	L	L
Cycle Lasso tools	Shift+L	Shift+L
Cycle Quick Selection, Magic Wand tools	Shift+W	Shift+W
Crop tool	C	C
Cycle Crop, Slice tools	Shift+C	Shift+C
Eyedropper tool	I	I
Cycle Eyedropper, Color Sampler, Ruler, Note, and Count tools	Shift+I	Shift+I
Spot Healing Brush	J	J
Cycle Spot Healing Brush, Healing Brush, Patch and Red Eye tools	Shift+J	Shift+J
Brush tool	B	B
Cycle Brush, Pencil, Color Replacement, and Mixer Brush tools	Shift+B	Shift+B
Clone Stamp tool	S	S
Cycle Clone Stamp, Pattern Stamp tools	Shift+S	Shift+S