Someone is always available and happy to help. Don’t forget that you can always post any questions in the Scrap Girls Forum. To learn more about these, do a search for Keyboard Shortcuts or Photoshop Elements Keyboard Shortcuts. There are many more shortcuts and cheat sheets available, including those for brushes, panel bin, rulers, selections, and tools. Notice that the commands which have keyboard shortcuts will have the shortcut listed next to the command.Ĭtrl+O = Open File (An alternative to this is to double-click on a blank area of the workspace, which I think works just as well as the keyboard shortcut.)Ī few extra commands that I like to use are the Fill Commands:Īlt+Delete or Alt+Backspace = Fill background with Foreground ColorĬtrl+Delete or Ctrl+Backspace = Fill background with Background Color I’ve provided a few screenshots highlighting some of these. Today, I’ll share a few of my favorites with you. You probably know some shortcuts already – like the ever-familiar Ctrl+Z = Undo, but there are many, many other shortcuts available to help you accomplish various tasks. Creating, changing or deleting keyboard shortcuts in Photoshop is all done from inside the rather massive Keyboard Shortcuts dialog box, which we access by going up to the Edit menu at the top of the screen and choosing Keyboard Shortcuts from down near the bottom of the list: Go to Edit. Sometimes, that just takes too long for what I want to do! Step 1: Select 'Keyboard Shortcuts' From The Edit Menu. Add Shape + Close Ctrl+W / Ctrl+F4 Align Left Ctrl+Shift+L Ascend through Layers Alt+ Delete Selection Backspace Subtract Shape - Close All Ctrl+Shift+W Align Right Ctrl+Shift+R Bring Layer to Front Ctrl+Shift+ Deselect (Drop) Ctrl+D. Easy peasy! The alternative is to get my mouse, go to the menu bar, click on the menu I want, find the specific command I want to execute, then select it to get the results I want. (You can even remove a background using the free Photoshop app.) In this article, I’ll show you how to cut out an image in Photoshop with three of the most common methods. It’s so simple to just press two or three keys to accomplish a task. Because of the multiple needs and uses, Adobe Photoshop offers numerous tools and techniques that allow you to cut out an image and remove the background. They are exactly that – shortcuts – and they are great timesavers.

When scrapping, I love to use keyboard shortcuts.

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