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Modifying keyboard shortcuts to boost productivity - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop 2022 Essential Training
Modifying keyboard shortcuts to boost productivity
- Shortcuts are a great way to increase your productivity when you notice that you're selecting the same commands over and over throughout the day. So, shortcuts are listed next to the menu items. We can see here that many of the menu items have shortcuts already assigned to them, but some of them do not. So, just to decipher them, this icon right here, that's going to be the Command key on Mac, Ctrl key on Windows. This is the option or the Alt key, and the arrow here is going to be the Shift key. So for example, if I just want to open a new blank document, I can use Command + N on Mac, or Ctrl + N on Windows. Now, because not every command or every tool has a shortcut, we can edit those in Photoshop, and, probably the most used custom keyboard shortcut that I've created is for these two commands under the window menu, because I'm often going back and forth between tiling multiple open documents and then…
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