Adobe Photoshop CS3 shortcut keys Flashcards
To know the shortcut keys
Ctrl. + N
New
Ctrl. + O
Open
Alt. + Ctrl. + O
Browse
Alt. + Ctrl + O
Open as. . .
Ctrl. + W
Close
V
Move tool
Moves selections, layers and guides.
M
Pressing Alt + Shift on the elliptical will make a perfect circle. Draw from middle out.
Rectangular Marguee Tool
or eliptical Marquee tool
Make rectangular, elliptical, single row and single column selections.
L
Magnetic Lasso tool
Lasso Tool
Polygonal Lasso tool
Make freehand polygonal (straight edged) and magnetic (snap-to) selections.
W
Quick Selection tool
Magic Wand tool
Lets you quickly “paint” a selection using an adjustable round brush tip
Magic wand tool selects similarly colored areas.
C
Crop Tool
Trims images
K
Slice Tool
The slice tool creates slices
The Slice Select tool selects slices.
Alt. + Ctrl + R
Refine edge tool
B
brush tool–paints brush strokes
Pencil tool–paints hard-edged strokes
Color replacement tool–substitutes one color for another
S
Clone stamp tool–paints with a sample of an image.
Pattern Stamp tool–paints with a part of an image as a pattern.
Y
History Brush tool–paints a copy of the selected state or snapshot into the current image window
Art History Brush tool–paints stylized strokes that simulate the look of different paint styles, using a selected state or snapshot
E
Eraser tool–erases pixels and restores parts of an image to a previously saved state
Background Eraser tool–Erases areas to transparency by dragging
Magic Eraser tool–Erases solid-colored areas to transparency with a single click
G
Gradient tool–creates straight-line radial, angle, reflected and diamond blends between colors
Paint bucket tool–fills similarly colored areas with the foreground color.
R
Blur tool–blurs hard edges in an image
Sharpen tool–sharpens soft edges in an image
Smudge tool–smudges data in an image