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How to use springloaded shortcuts in Photoshop

How to use springloaded shortcuts in Photoshop

From the course: Creative Quick Tips

How to use springloaded shortcuts in Photoshop

Hey there. Welcome back to another episode of Creative Quick Tips. My name is Justin Seeley and this week I'm going to be talking about springloaded tool short cuts inside of Adobe Photoshop. Now what exactly is a springloaded tool shortcut? Well, let's take a look. Let's say that I'm working on this flower, and I'll zoom in here. And I'm going to be using, let's say the Dodge or the Burn tool. So I'll just go over here and grab the Burn tool. And you already know that you can instantly switch tools in Photoshop by pressing a letter on your keyboard. So if I wanted to switch from the Burn tool to the Text tool, I could press the letter t, and then if I wanted to move to the Move tool. Hit the letter v, et cetera. But did you also know that you can temporarily hold down the keyboard shortcut key for any given tool while you're working in Photoshop and invoke that tool for the duration of the time that you hold down the key? And then as soon as you let go, you can go right back to using…

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