I thinned out all the junk that didn’t have a hot key. htm file so I did you the favor of copying it into this post (below the tutorial). What it did was bring me into a window that showed me every single Photoshop Hot Key and allowed me to modify them if I so chose! How cool is that! It even allowed me to “Summarize” every hot key in Photoshop. Photoshop can do that set custom shortcuts. Well, let’s assign then the Cmd+J to the Duplicate Group item in the Layers menu. When you need to duplicate a group you have to drag the damn thing to the new icon in the Layers palette or go to the Layer menu whatever. However, the more I looked at it the more I realized I had “cracked” the hot key code. That’s the thing it only works for layers. I didn’t want to mess with it because it looked “official”. If I select the most recent transformed layer and then use this shortcut, let’s say, five times, I’ll end up with this. So the complete keyboard shortcut to duplicate and then repeat a transformed layer is Alt+Shift+Ctrl+T. Well, okay, the genie didn’t quite happen, but a new window popped up that scared the daylights out of me. The keyboard shortcut for what I did in the previous step is Shift+Ctrl+T. Duplicating a layer will make and exact copy of an existing layer so the layers. I was playing around in Photoshop the other day wondering, “ What will happen if I do this, CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+M“ and boom, a genie appeared that granted me three wishes! Tip: The shortcut to create a new layer is Shift+Ctrl+N.
To create a new layer using a selection (layer via copy), press Ctrl + J (Mac and PC). For instance, CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+E, to make a layer stamp. To create a new layer press Shift-Ctrl-N (Mac) or Shift+Ctrl+N (PC). Some Hot Keys make you feel like your hand is turning into a claw-like object of mass destruction. Have you ever made a funny shape with your fingers, like an elephant or a dog, and plopped them on the key board while in Photoshop to see what kind of effect it has.