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Technique 3: Assigning Custom Keyboard Shortcuts

Save Time By

Creating your own shortcuts that work for you

Creating and deleting shortcut sets

Printing out a list of shortcuts available in a shortcut set

Using keyboard shortcuts that are easy to remember can increase your productivity, helping you work faster and more efficiently. If you like the keyboard shortcuts you use in other programs, you can customize Photoshop cs to do it your way.

Depending upon the type of work you do, you might like to define several shortcut sets. For instance, if you are using several filters over and over, you can assign custom shortcuts that give quick, easy access to those filters. You could save these filter shortcuts in a shortcut set named “Filters.” A second shortcut set that you might create, suppose it’s named “Color Modes,” could include custom shortcuts that quickly convert images from one color mode to another (for instance, from RGB color mode to CMYK color mode). Any time you need one of these shortcut sets, you can quickly load it.

This technique covers how to create custom shortcuts, save them in a shortcut set, and load the shortcut set when you need it. In addition, you find out how to view a complete list of shortcuts available to you in a shortcut set. Finally, you find out how to revert to the standard shortcuts that come with Photoshop, and delete unwanted shortcut sets.