A few shortcuts speeds up the organizing. Sorting layers with the mouse can be clumsy and slow. Option + Shift + selects all layers between the current and uppermost. Pressing Option + selects the layer below or above the current layer, respectively. The keyboard can also be used to select layers. Right-clicking to display all layers beneath the cursor. After selecting multiple layers, you can link the layers together by right-clicking and selecting Link Layers. By holding Shift while using either of the selection methods above, you can select multiple layers. If your layers are properly named, you should be able to quickly select the layer you need. By right-clicking with the Move tool, you’ll bring up a contextual menu containing a list of all layers located below the cursor. There will be times when you want to select a layer that is located below a number of other layers. You can change this behavior to select the actual layer by using the Auto-select drop-down in the Move tool’s property bar. If your layers are grouped within layer sets, this action may have selected the entire folder. Using the Move tool ( V), you can Command + click on the canvas to select the uppermost layer with pixel data located directly below the mouse. Luckily, there are a number of ways to select layers more intuitively. Sifting through nests of layer sets to find the layer you need quickly becomes tiresome.
#SHIFT CLICK COMMAND E WINDOWS#
They will work on the Windows platform by converting as follows: Command → Control and Option → Alt. Please note that all of the shortcuts listed below assume that you are using Photoshop CS4 on OS X. Many of these are not documented in the “Keyboard Shortcuts” menu, and some of them don’t even have equivalent menu options.
Suddenly, this simple shortcut has streamlined our process and shaved quite a bit of time off our day.Ĭollected here are some lesser known but extremely useful shortcuts.
A majority of them are staples such as Copy ( Command + C) and Paste ( Command + V), but occasionally we stumble upon a shortcut we wish we’d learned years ago. We all have shortcuts that are essential to our daily workflow. As you’ll see, you’ll be sure to stumble upon a shortcut you’d wish you’d learned years ago. This article is all about time savers that are essential to our daily workflow.
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