Jen Cotton

Photoshop Guru

Post By admin ~ 19th July 2011

I’ve been using Photoshop since at least high school and when I was at the Corcoran, I had to take a Photoshop course where my professor was in love with keyboard shortcuts (a man after my own heart). So I thought I knew the interface and keyboard shortcuts but, like most things at NYMag, I’m learning how much there still is to learn. Yesterday I had my mind blown by the Arrange Documents tab on the top of the browser, which allows you to see your windows in a grid (mmmm, grid love). I’ve also added more keyboard shortcuts to my repertoire so I thought I’d put them all in one post and share the knowledge. Warning though, these are Mac only :-/

Type

• Increase/Decrease text size: > or < + Command + Shift
• Increase/Decrease baseline: Up or Down arrow + Alt + Shift
• Left/Centered/Right justified-text: (while in text layer only!!) L, C, or R key + Command + Shift
• » symbol = Alt + Shift + |

Interface

• Cycle through Blending Modes: + or – + Shift
• Apply last filter: F + Command
• Send layer forward/backward in layer palette: ] or [ + Command
• Change opacity: (will change for whatever tool you have selected!!) 1-9 for 10%-90%, 0 for 100%