Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator Shortcuts for Architects

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You’re a Photoshop or an InDesign user; you have a simple goal in mind, like cropping a photo, improving the resolution, or changing the size of the canvas. But then, you look at how many options there are — and trying to figure out which buttons to press to execute a single task suddenly turns into an attempt to solve The Riddle of the Sphinx. You might search the YouTube Photoshop channels for architects, but wouldn’t it be nice if you could just press a button, and magically, do what you wanted to do? Well, we’ve got good news for you: It turns out there are a wealth of Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator shortcuts that pretty much work just that way.

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Shortcuts are the key! You can assign shortcuts to menu commands, panel commands, and tools. You can edit, delete, or add to the Photoshop default set or create your own custom set. There are a ton of Photoshop keyboard shortcuts. Way too many to cover in one post. However, you don’t need to know every keyboard shortcut that Photoshop offers. The point of this post is to show you some commonly used keyboard shortcuts for tools that will help you maximize your workflow in Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator.