Design Tips: Adobe Shortcut Keys

The Adobe Keys

For those of you who don't know, these images show some of the actual keyboard shortcut keys. Thanks to Going Home to Roost for providing these images.

Shortcut Keys

Now who doesn't love to take shortcuts every now and then, especially if they are legit and help you get done with work quicker? Shortcut keys are the keys you press in order to either get to a certain tool, option, or function. For graphic designers, these keys are like the energy boost that some people need in order to get their day started a little faster. It is quicker than your toolbar and menu bar and the best part is that you don't have to use your mouse or tablet pen to scroll anywhere in order to get to the shortcut keys. 

However, the learning curve for learning the shortcuts is pretty steep because each Adobe program comes with its own set of keyboard shortcuts. The ones shown above are for Adobe Illustrator (Ai), Photoshop (Ps), Flash(Fl), and InDesign (Id). These are just a few of the shortcut keys (trust me by no means is this even close to half of them haha.) Once you start using them a few times, they well begin to come second nature but you should always keep diagrams or these images around as a good reference in case you stop using the programs for a while and forget them.

I will give you guys more useful shortcut keys and actually explain what each one does, in the near future. For now, I just wanted to share with you this little bit of knowledge to spark your interests.