Adobe Photoshop Elements 11 Keyboard Shortcuts

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Painting & Brushes
Selecting & Moving Objects
Selecting Tools
Showing & Hiding Panels
Filter Gallery
Layers Panel
Liquify Filter
Magic Extractor Dialog
Transforming Selections
Photomerge Panorama
Using Blending Modes
Using Text
Viewing Images (expert mode)

⇧ + or - Cycle through blending modes

⇧ Delete Display Fill dialog box

/ Lock transparent pixels on/off

[ or ] Decrease/increase brush size

⇧ [ or ] Decrease/increase brush softness/hardness in 25% increments

, or . Select previous/next brush size

⇧ , or . Select first/last brush

⇪ Display precise cross hair for brushes

⌘ D Deselect a selection

␣-drag Reposition marquee while selecting

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

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

⇧ ⌥-drag Constrain shape and draw marquee from center

⌥-click and drag Switch from Magnetic Lasso tool to Polygonal Lasso tool

Delete Delete last anchor point for Magnetic or Polygonal Lasso tool

↩ or ⎋ Apply/cancel an operation of the Magnetic Lasso tool

/ Toggle crop shield off and on

⌘ ? Open Help

F4 Show/Hide Tool Options

F5 Show/Hide Photo Bin

F6 Show/Hide Effects panel

F7 Show/Hide Graphics panel

F8 Show/Hide Info panel

⌥ F9 Show/Hide Histogram panel

⌥ F10 Show/Hide History panel

⌥ F11 Show/Hide Layers panel

⌥ F12 Show/Hide Navigator panel

⌘ Change Cancel button to Default

⌥ Change Cancel button to Reset

⌘ Z Undo/redo

⌘ ⇧ Z Step forward

⌘ ⌥ Z Step backward

⇧ ↩ Apply value and keep text box active

⌘ ⇧ E Merge visible layers

⌥ . or , Activate bottom/top layer

⌥ [ or ] Select next layer down/up

⌘ [ or ] Move target layer down/up

⌘ ⇧ ⌥ E Merge a copy of all visible layers into target layer

⌘ E Merge down

/ Toggle lock transparency for target layer, or last applied lock

⇧ ⌥ [ or] Add to layer selection in Layers panel

W Warp tool

T Turbulence tool

C Twirl Clockwise tool

L Twirl Counter Clockwise tool

P Pucker tool

B Bloat tool

S Shift Pixels tool

M Reflection tool

E Reconstruct tool

Z Zoom tool

H Hand tool

B Foreground brush

P Background Brush tool

E Point Eraser

A Add To Selection tool

D Remove From Selection tool

J Smoothing Brush tool

Z Zoom tool

H Hand tool

⌥ Transform from center or reflect

⇧ Constrain

⌘ Distort

⌘ ⇧ Skew

⌘ ⇧ ⌥ Change perspective

↩ Apply

⎋ or ⌘ . Cancel

A Select Image tool

R Rotate Image tool

V Set Vanishing Point tool (Perspective option selected)

Z Zoom tool

H Hand tool

␣ Switch to Hand tool

⌘ Z Step backward

⌘ ⇧ Z Step forward

← → ↑ ↓ Move selected image 1 pixel

⌥ Change Cancel button to Reset

⇧ + or - Cycle through blending modes

⇧ ⌥ N Normal

⇧ ⌥ I Dissolve

⇧ ⌥ Q Behind

⇧ ⌥ R Clear

⇧ ⌥ K Darken

⇧ ⌥ M Multiply

⇧ ⌥ B Color Burn

⇧ ⌥ A Linear Burn

⇧ ⌥ G Lighten

⇧ ⌥ S Screen

⇧ ⌥ D Color Dodge

⇧ ⌥ W Linear Dodge

⇧ ⌥ O Overlay

⇧ ⌥ F Soft Light

⇧ ⌥ H Hard Light

⇧ ⌥ V Vivid Light

⇧ ⌥ J Linear Light

⇧ ⌥ Z Pin Light

⇧ ⌥ L Hard Mix

⇧ ⌥ E Difference

⇧ ⌥ X Exclusion

⇧ ⌥ U Hue

⇧ ⌥ T Saturation

⇧ ⌥ C Color

⇧ ⌥ Y Luminosity

⇧ Select characters from insertion point to mouse click point

⌘ ⇧ Y Return to default font style

⌘ ⇧ U Turn Underlining on/off

⌘ ⇧ / Turn Strikethrough on/off

⌘ ⇧ , or . Decrease or increase type size of selected text 2 pts/px

Switch to Hand tool (when not in text-edit mode) ␣

Switch to Zoom In tool ⌘ ␣

Switch to Zoom Out tool ⌥ ␣

Reposition zoom marquee while dragging drag-␣

Scroll up or down 1 screen fn ↑ or ↓

Scroll up or down 10 units ⇧ ↑ or ↓

Scroll left or right 1 screen ⌘ ↑ or ↓

Scroll left or right 10 units ⌘⇧↑ or ↓

Move view to upper-left corner or lower- right corner fn ← or →