

The Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer - When adjusting the color bars at the bottom of the Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer, sometimes it’s awkward when they “wrap-around” form one side to another.

Or, after adding an adjustment layer, tap Shift + Return (Mac) | Shift + Enter (Win) to put the keyboard focus onto the first field in the Adjustment panel. Under the Shortcuts for “Tools” scroll the towards the bottom of the list to locate the “Targeted Adjustment Tool“ line item and enter in your own custom keyboard shortcut.Īuto-Select Parameter - In order to automatically put the keyboard focus onto the first field in the Adjustment panel, use the fly out menu in the Adjustments panel, and select Auto-Select Parameter. Note, in order for the Auto-Select Targeted Adjustment menu item to appear in the drop-down, you have to first add an Adjustment layer that has the Targeted Adjustment tool.Ĭustom Targeted Adjustment Tool Shortcut - To use a keyboard shortcut to select the Targeted Adjustment Tool while using a Hue/Saturation, Curves, or Black & White adjustment layer, choose Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts. You can however use the fly-out menu on the Adjustments panel to enable/disable this behavior (Add Mask by Default).Īuto-Select Targeted Adjustment - To automatically select the Targeted Adjustment Tool when adding an adjustment layer such as Curves, Hue/Saturation, or Black & White, use the fly out menu in the Properties or Adjustments panel to enable “Auto-Select Targeted Adjustment”. Note: because of the need to distinguish a tap from a hold, there’s a slight delay before the results of the hold behavior become visible.Īdjustment Layer Masks - Photoshop’s default behavior is to add a layer mask whenever an adjustment layer is created. Release the key to return to the current state. Preview the Adjustment - After adding an adjustment layer and making a change to it, press and hold the backslash key to display a preview of the unadjusted state of the document. However, I didn’t have time to share the following shortcuts:ĭisplay the New Adjustment/Fill Layer Options - Holding the Option key (Mac) | Alt key (Win) before selecting the Adjustment Layer icon on the Layers panel will display the New Layer dialog enabling you to change options such as blend modes, opacity, flayer naming and color coding before adding the layers. 1) Adjustment and Fill layers are nondestructive and can be edited at any time without any loss of quality.Ģ) You can change blend mode of Adjustment and Fill layers.ģ) Adjustment and Fill layers have their own Layer masks which can be used to selectively hide and show the adjustment in the image.Ĥ) You can change the opacity of Adjustment and Fill layers at any time.ĥ) Adjustment and Fill layers can be clipped to effect the contents of a single Layer or Layer Group.
