I have been using Photoshop since version 3 that was way back around 1995. Yes, I’m an old designer fart and still using Photoshop to this day. From the years of experience, these are some of the shortcut keys I use to speed up my workflow. While 2019 and 2018 have slightly different keymaps most will still work on the Creative Cloud edition.

Bring up the layers panel: F7

Move layer up: Ctrl Shift ] (Mac Command Shift ])

Move layer down: Ctrl Shift [ (Mac Command Shift [)

Merge Layers: Ctrl E (Mac Command E)

Lock Layer: Ctrl / (Mac Command /)

Rename layer and then shift down to the next layer: [...]

This isn’t a new feature in Photoshop 2019 but one that is very useful when you want to remove a thin white line around the edge of your image.

1. Select the layer you wish to remove the white edges around your image.

2. Go to Layer then Matting and select Defringe. (Layer > Matting > Defringe)From experience Remove Black Matte or Remove White Matte doesn’t work very well.

3. The Defringe popup dialog box will appear. Adjust the Width pixel according to how much you would like the white edges to be removed and click OK. This is base on your resolution, the large your image the higher the value this number should be [...]

If you have updated to Photoshop 2019 you will have notice the transform tool have changed. What’s wrong, the transform does not conform to the fix ratio when you hold down the shift key? Why Adobe has done this who knows? I might suspect it could be easier for future tablet users or people using track-pads. But then again who uses a track-pad to do Photoshop work. Yes, the new shortcut changes is very annoying and is tempting to revert back to Photoshop 2018. Before you do that, here are some of your solution to that Photoshop transform shortcut change.

The simple solution is do not hold down the shift key when you drag to resize your layer. However if the layer is [...]