Photoshop Tools and Shortcuts

Transform tool helps in editing an image either by rotating, scaling, changing the angle and perspective, etc.

Define brush preset- helps in creating an brush with an image. To create a brush

    Select an image.
    Go to file > define brush preset.
    Name the brush. If a coloured image is selected it will be converted to grayscale mode.

Edit menu also contain the option for keyboard shortcuts (Alt+Shft+Ctrl+K) where the shortcuts for all tools can be customized.

Menus helps in hiding and coloring a menu item.

1.  V = Move Tool
2. M = Rectangular Marquee Tool
3. L = Lasso Tool
4. W = Quick selection Tool
5. C = Crop Tool
6. K = Slice tool
7. J = Spot Healing Brush Tool
8. B = Brush Tool
9. S = Clone Stamp Tool
10. Y = History Brush Tool
11. E = Eraser Tool
12. G = Gradient Tool
13. R = Blur Tool
14. O = Dodge Tool
15. P = Pen Tool
16. T = Horizontal Type Tool
17. A = Path selection Tool
18. U = Rectangle Tool
19. N = Notes Tool
20. I = Eye Dropper Tool
21. H = Hand Tool
22. Z = Zoom Tool
23. X = Switch Foreground and background color
24. Q = Edit in quick mask mode
25. F = Change Full screen mode