Adobe Photoshop Adobe Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts for Mac Popular Shortcut Set

Keyboard shortcuts for Adobe Photoshop on Mac. Covers tool switching, layer management, and selection tools on macOS.
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Select tools

Default Foreground/Background colors
D
Switch Foreground/Background colors
X
Decrease Brush Hardness
Shift+[
Increase Brush Hardness
Shift+]

Select and move objects

Add to a selection
Shift+Drag
with Any selection tool

Transform selections, selection borders, and paths

Free Transform
Cmd+T

Painting

Decrease Brush Size
[
Increase Brush Size
]

Layers panel

New layer via copy
Cmd+J
New layer via cut
Cmd+Shift+J

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