Mindfly Website Design Studio

I am a huge fan of keyboard shortcuts. Huge. Anything to make my workflow more efficient. Actually, it's not even that, if I'm totally honest. It's more like I'm too lazy to pick up my hand to grab the mouse and try to recall under which menu > submenu the command I am looking for lies, which just happens to make for a more efficient workflow. Nice how laziness pans out for once.

So here some I find myself using often (I should note that these are PC shortcuts, since that's what we use here at Mindfly. For Mac users Ctrl = Cmd and Alt = Opt):

1. Duplicating Layers There are several ways to duplicat layers. I generally use all of them depending on what I'm doing.

1. Hold down and drag the layer up (or down) in the layers palette
2. Drag the layer to the the New Layer button on the bottom of the layers palette
3. Press the +
4. With the layer selected in the layers palette, press +
5. Right-click on a layer and select Duplicate Layer from the menu

2. Free Transform + . Once you're in the Free Transform mode you can Right-click and access some other options such as skew, warp, perspective, flip etc.

3. Inversing a selection + + . I find this particularly helpful when I'm cutting out objects from their background.

4. Changing brush sizes With the brush too selected you can use + to decrease by 10px or + to increase by 10px. Adding to that combination will increase or decrease the brush softness.

5. + will allow you to flip through all your open Photoshop documents with ease.