Photoshop shortcuts: 14 ways to work more efficiently (free cheat sheet)

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Want to dramatically speed up your photo editing time? Try these 14 Photoshop shortcuts for the keyboard that will massively improve your speed and efficiency.

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Where relevant we’ve provided versions of these Photoshop shortcuts for both Mac and PC keyboards.

14 Essential Photoshop Shortcuts: free cheat sheet

D
Reset the foreground and background colours to black and white

Alt+[scroll wheel]
Zoom in or out of the image

Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+Alt+E
Create a merged copy of all the layers in the layer stack

Space bar
Temporarily switch the current tool to the Hand tool, for moving around the image while zoomed in

Alt+[eye icon]
Switch off the visibility of all other layers in the layer stack, for before-and-after comparisons

Cmd/Ctrl+I
Invert the colour of a layer mask to black

Shift+[layer mask]
Disable the effects of a layer mask

x
Switch the foreground and background colour swatches

[ or ]
Resize the brush tip

shift+[ or ]
Cycle backwards or forwards through the layer blend modes

Cmd/Ctrl+alt+Z
Undo the last change made to the document. Works multiple times

Cmd/Ctrl+[layer mask]
Load the currently active layer mask as a new selection

Cmd/Ctrl+T
Activate the Free Transform tool

Cmd/Ctrl+J
Duplicate the current layer

Source:http://www.digitalcameraworld.com/2014/02/24/photoshop-shortcuts-14-ways-to-work-more-efficiently-free-cheat-sheet/