Alt-Click tool

Cycle through nested tools

V

Move

Z

Zoom

H

Hand

I

Eyedropper

M

Rectangular/ Elliptical Marquee tool

L

Lasso, Polygon Lasso, Magnetic Lasso

A

Magic Wand tool, Selection Brush tool, Quick Selection tool, Refined Selection tool, Auto Selection Tool

T

Horizontal Type, Vertical Type, Horizontal Type Mask, Vertical Type Mask, Text on Selection, Text on Shape, Text on Path

C

Crop, Perspective Crop

W

Recompose

C

Cookie Cutter

P

Straighten

Y

Eye

J

Spot Healing Brush, Healing Brush

S

Clone Stamp, Pattern Stamp

E

Eraser, Magic Eraser, Background Eraser

N

Pencil

B

Brush, Impressionist Brush, Color Replacement Brush

F

Smart Brush, Detailed Smart Brush

K

Paint Bucket

G

Gradient

U

Custom Shape, Rectangle Shape, Rounded Rectangle Shape, Ellipse Shape, Polygon Shape, Star Shape, Line Shape, Shape Select

R

Blur, Sharpen, Smudge, Sponge, Dodge, mBurn

Tab

Show/Hide all panels

D

Default forground and background colors

X

Switch foreground and background colors

Shift-click

Select characters from insertion point to mouse click point

Arrow Keys/Ctrl+Left Arrow/Right Arrow

Move 1 character left/right, 1 line down/up, or 1 word left/right

Double-click/ triple-click, quadruple-click

Select word, line, or paragraph

Ctrl-drag a bounding box handle

Scale and skew text within a bounding box when resizing the bounding box

Ctrl+Shift+Y

Return to default font style

Ctrl+Shift+U

Turn Underlining on/off

Ctrl+Shift+/

Turn Strikethrough on/off

Ctrl+Shift+</>

Decrease or increase type size of selected text 1 pt/px

Ctrl+D

Deselect a selection

Spacebar- drag

Reposition marquee while selecting

Any selection tool+Shift/Alt-drag

Add to or subtract from a selection

Shift-drag

Constrain marquee to square or circle (if no other selections are active)

Alt-drag

Draw marquee from center (if no other selections are active)

Shift+Alt-drag

Constrain shape and draw marquee from center

Alt-click-drag

Switch from Magnetic Lasso tool to Polygonal Lasso tool

Delete

Delete last anchor point for Magnetic or Polygonal Lasso tool

Enter/Esc

Apply/cancel an operation of the Magnetic Lasso tool

Move tool+Alt-drag selection

Move copy of selection

Any selection+Arrow Keys

Move selection area 1 pixel

Move tool+Arrow Keys

Move selection 1 pixel

Ctrl+Arrow Keys

Move layer 1 pixel when nothing selected on layer

Magnetic Lasso tool+[/]

Increase/decrease detection width

Crop tool+Enter/Esc

Accept cropping or exit cropping

/

Toggle crop shield off and on

Alt-click New button

Set layer options

Alt-click Trash button

Delete without confirmation

Shift+Enter

Apply value and keep text box active

Ctrl-click layer thumbnail

Load layer transparency as a selection

Ctrl+Shift-click layer

Add to current selection

Ctrl+Alt-click layer thumbnail

Subtract from current selection

Ctrl+Shift+Alt-click layer thumbnail

Intersect with current selection

Ctrl+E

Merge down

Ctrl+Shift+E

Merge visible layers

Ctrl+Shift+Alt+E

Merge a copy of all visible layers into target layer

Alt-click New Layer button

Create new empty layer with dialog

Ctrl-click New Layer button

Create new layer below target layer

Alt+./ ,

Activate bottom/top layer

Alt+[/]

Select next layer down/up

Ctrl+[/]

Move target layer down/up

Alt-click the eye icon

Show/hide all other currently visible layers

/

Toggle lock transparency for target layer, or last applied lock

Double-click text layer thumbnail

Select all text; temporarily select Type tool

Alt-click the line dividing two layers

Create a clipping mask

Double-click the layer name

Rename layer

Shift+Alt+[/]

Add to layer selection in Layers panel

Alt+drag layer mask

Copy the mask from one layer to another, and ask to replace if the mask is already present

Any painting tool or shape tool+Alt

Switch to Eyedropper tool

Eyedropper tool+Alt-click

Select background color

Shift++/-

Cycle through blending modes

Alt+Backspace/Ctrl+Backspace

Fill selection/layer with foreground or background color

Shift+Backspace

Display Fill dialog box

/

Lock transparent pixels on/off

Any painting tool+Shift-click

Connect points with a straight line (draw a straight line)

Alt-click brush

Delete brush

[/]

Decrease/increase brush size

Shift+[/]

Decrease/increase brush softness/hardness in 25% increments

,/.

Select previous/next brush size

Shift+,/.

Select first/last brush

Caps Lock

Display precise cross hair for brushes