Photoshop CS2 & 3 Shortcuts

Nothing is more time gaining than some good shortcuts,

You now don’t need to search the menu for a certain command or option…. simply pressing a combination of buttons you get the same result, the only tricky part is to get to known these shortcut, after that you will certainly be aware of the advantages of these shortcuts in Photoshop CS2 & CS3!

Shortcuts for file menu

Action	Shortcut
New	Ctrl+N
Open	Ctrl+O
Close	Ctrl+W
Save	Ctrl+S
Save a Copy	Ctrl+Alt+S
Page Setup	Ctrl+Shift+P
Exit/Quit	Ctrl+Q
Help	F1

Shortcuts for Edit Menu

Action	Shortcut
Undo	Ctrl+Z
Step Forward in History	Ctrl+Shift+Z
Copy	Ctrl+C
Paste	Ctrl+V
Free Transform	Ctrl+T
Keyboard Shortcuts	Alt+Shift+Ctrl+K

Shortcuts for Image Menu

Action	Shortcut
Adjust Levels	Ctrl+L
Adjust Auto Contrast	Ctrl+Alt+Shift+L
Adjust Color Balance	Ctrl+B
Desaturate	Ctrl+Shift+U
Extract	Ctrl+Alt+X

Shortcuts for Layers Menu

Action	Shortcut
New Layer	Ctrl+Shift+N
Layer via Cut	Ctrl+Shift+J
Ungroup	Ctrl+Shift+G
Bring Forward	Ctrl+]
Send Back	Ctrl+Shift+[
Merge Layers	Ctrl+E

Shortcuts for Select Menu

Action	Shortcut
Select All	Ctrl+A
Reselect	Ctrl+Shift+D
Feather	Ctrl+Alt+D

Shortcuts for Filter Menu

Action	Shortcut
Last Filter	Ctrl+F

Shortcuts for View Menu

Action	Shortcut
Preview CMYK	Ctrl+Y
Zoom In	Ctrl++
Zoom In & Resize Window	Ctrl+Alt++
Fit on Screen	Ctrl+0
Hide Edges	Ctrl+H
Show/Hide Rulers	Ctrl+R
Show/Hide Extras	Ctrl+H
Show Guides	Ctrl+;

Misc. Useful Commands

Action	Shortcut
Fill with Forground Color	Alt+Backspace
Fill from History	Ctrl+Alt+Backspace
Move a Copy 10 Pixels	Shift+Alt+Arrow Keys
Decrease Font Size by 2	Ctrl+Alt+<
Decrease Font Size by 10	Ctrl+Shift+Alt+<
Descend through Layers	Alt+[
Select Bottom Layer	Shift+

For a full shortcut summary click here

KeyBoard Events

This little tut shows you how to capture keyboard events…

First we will need to add a eventlistener to the stage, with the folowing function: downHandler …

stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, downHandler);

function downHandler(evt:KeyboardEvent):void{

trace(evt);

}

Like you see we trace the KeyBoardEvent, …

This will give something like this:

Using the keyCode attribute we can check witch key is pressed…

Example, if the left arrow key is pressed we want to trace a little message… , this we do inside the downHandler, a other okace in the actionscript code wouldn’t recognize these keyCodes….

function downHandler(evt:KeyboardEvent):void{
if(evt.keyCode == 37){
trace(“Arrow Left”)
}
}

Roads are endless, but with this little introduction , the road is now under you feet….

You can chose how far you tend to go…