12 Extremely Helpful Photo Editing App Cheat Sheets

by Bill Jones

When working in any photo manipulation package, and especially when first starting out, it is very important to develop good habits. One habit you need to develop early is the use of shortcut keys instead of menu buttons. This will dramatically increase speed once you practice and get use to it.

To help in your quest for increased productivity here is a list of some of the best cheat sheets you can find for Photoshop, PS Lightroom, PS Elements, Apeture, and Gimp.

Adobe Photoshop CS4 Keyboard Shortcuts

Adobe Photoshop CS3 Keyboard Shortcuts

Photoshop Lasso Tool Cheatsheet

Adobe Brush Tool Cheat Sheet

Adobe Pen Tool Cheat Sheet

Photoshop Elements 7 For Dummies Cheet Sheet

Photoshop Toolbox Reference

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Cheat Sheets

Photoshop Black and White Cheat Sheet

Apple Aperture Cheat Sheets

Gimp Quick Reference Card

Photoshop Secret Shortcuts from Web Designer Wall

If you have any other cheat sheets you would like to share please leave a comment below.

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9 Comments

Henry
September 21st
Very useful. Thanks!
David
September 21st
Nice! I’ll be printing these out. I agree that beginners really need to start off learning shortcut keys. It really increases productivity a lot.
Hanneke
October 31st
What happened to Paint Shop Pro?
Bridget
November 12th
I use GIMP…thanks for the quick reference sheet…I’m going to post a link to this page on my blog.
Ed
December 1st
Awesome. Thanks!
cpasbanal
December 1st
Thanks a lot for this useful stuff !
Chris Biele
December 2nd
Thanks, maybe now I’ll take a few moments to try and understand the pen tool!
David Riecks
March 15th
You can find the Digizone, Skintone and Basic Color Recipes charts available for download (free) at:
http://www.riecks.com/digitalinfo.html

These are useful for those that like to have some real world numbers for starting points while digital imaging.

David
ester hamermesz
March 15th
All of these cheat charts are great. I was wondering if there is one to rapidly configure the use of flash with pocket wizards and Nikons d700, d300. I get so mixed up with the menus of sb-800 the camera menus- seems it takes me forever to get set up.
thanks
ester