Hey guys and gals! It’s time for the next 99designs Shortcut Cheat Sheet.
This time it’s Adobe Photoshop — perfect for pretty much anything except for logo design!
(Remember: Photoshop is a raster-based design program and logos have to be vector — an example program for vector is Adobe Illustrator)
Check out our other Shortcut Cheat Sheet: Adobe Illustrator — print them out and start a Shortcut collection!
Next in line is CorelDRAW and Adobe InDesign!
As always, if you have any others you want to see, let us know in the comments :)
Kaitlyn is part of the Community Team at 99designs.com. She grew up in Boulder, CO and went to school at Northwestern University in Chicago. When she's not blogging, she spends her time having adventures and being generally creative. She's all about having new experiences as often as possible!
Hi, this is cool and really a big help to an artist especially those who want to learn using photoshop, a good start for them. :)
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I think most of the guys here knows those key shortcuts… and I think they should before entering 99designs…
Then hopefully this is a helpful reminder for those who already know shortcuts! There are a lot of them out there, and there are always more to learn :)
WOW! Cheats, i wish their is cheats for Winning in 99designs Contest ! :D
Thanks Kaitlyn. Nice post.
@supa > Yes. There is a simple cheat for winning 99design contest. “Understanding The CH Demand”
The one shortcut that I use most often is “Ctrl + Alt + Right Click” to select layer.
Hi, Kaitlyn Thanks for your nice tips. But I want to know more about how to minimize Mega Bite of the submitted file size. Because when I make Letter Head Pad,Envelope & Card the file size exceed 8M.B.
Great post, thanks
wow wonderfull guide..thanks
Thanks Kaitlyn for sharing this really useful Photoshop shortcut cheatsheet! Although I’m an experienced user of Photoshop this is still very handy for checking a particular shortcut as it’s hard to memorize all of them, although I knew of most of those that you’ve got on there, a few I didn’t know about and it still serves as a excellent source of quick reference. Even better that you’ve included Mac and PC shortcuts as I use both. Thanks!
Hi to all!
I do not have Adobe Illustrator to do the logos. Before, I used Coreldraw (trial version only), and my time ends up. The only application available right now that I can use is Adobe Photoshop and it is not trial. I know it not a vector based, but can I use it for designing logos anyway (like increasing the resolution and or exporting as AI file) ?
Thanks much!
Hi Yaku,
No, you can not use Photoshop for logo designs. Unfortunately, even if you raise the resolution and export it as an AI file… it will still be a raster design (just in a vector program). I’d suggest that you try the Illustrator trial for a month and if you really like it, buy a version. Hope this helps… Cheers!
Hi,
Thanks,I really appreciate it.
I think this might be the Illustrator cheat sheet by mistake. Not all of the letters match up. Also I noticed that on both this and Illustrator you have ctrl/cmd-shift-0 for actual pixels when it should be ctrl/cmd-1. I looked at this because I know I used to be able to use a quick key but can’t remember what it was. When zooming in tight and working with the pen tool, you sometimes need a quick overview of the whole image and without releasing the pen tool. I can’t remember how that is done. Can anyone enlighten me? I thought it was holding down the ‘H’ key but … no. Thanks for all the great and helpful articles. I’ve got a lot to learn and these are a fab resource.
Um…A bunch of the shortcuts under “tools” are incorrect. And knowing shortcuts does NOT “give you professional looking designs,” it only speeds up your workflow.
C – Crop
E – Eraser
T – Type
Command- T is Free Transform not E
W – Wand
L – Lasso
H – Hand is lame, use the Space bar
Weird. Thanks for this! And I agree, Space bar is my favorite shortcut. ;)
Cheers,
Alli
hey can someone tall me that which platform i used for make my desigen for 99 degine websit …adobe or the corwl draw
Hi Richi! You should use Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator for web designs. Cheers!
A cheat sheet for premiere pro cs6 would be AWESOME