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Blend Mode Keyboard Shortcuts

 

I never used to use keyboard shortcuts for blend modes.  Then about a year or so ago, I realized that the keyboard shortcuts for blend modes are actually very easy.  It always involves the Option-Shift ( PC: Alt-Shift ) keys and then one letter that’s usually the first letter of the blend mode.  For example, Option-Shift-M ( PC: Alt-Shift-M ) is Multiply.  The letter O is Overlay.  The letter S gets you Screen and so on.  It doesn’t work for all of them ( F is actually Soft Light ) but it’s pretty darn close and since I’ve started using them I work a lot faster.

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3 Comments

  1. flysi said on — August 11, 2009 @ 11:11 am

    Some of them are kind of unintuitive (Shift+Opt+F for Soft Light?), but the whole list of ‘em is in the Photoshop CS4 Bible!

  2. John Nack said on — August 11, 2009 @ 2:38 pm

    Here’s a list: http://quamut.com/quamut/photoshop_cs3_keyboard_shortcuts/page/shortcuts_for_blending_modes.html

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