20+ Cheat Sheets Handy For Designers
Mastering frequently used applications increases the productivity significantly.
Controlling these applications via keyboard is a part of this "mastering process" which helps you use an application with 2 hands = much faster.
Also, knowing the tricks of tools inside these products definitely opens new doors for creating.
Specifically for designers, here is a list of cheat sheets for the most popular applications like Photoshop, Illustrator, Gimp, Fireworks & more..
Photoshop CS4 Keyboard Shortcuts
Keyboard shortcuts are very well organized, both by menu & alphabetically.
Also, shortcut presets that add lots of extra shortcuts are provided too.
Keyboard shortcuts for previous Photoshop versions:
- Adobe Photoshop CS3
- Adobe Photoshop CS2
- Adobe Photoshop CS
- Adobe Photoshop 7
- Adobe Photoshop 6
- Adobe Photoshop 5
Photoshop Black And White Cheat Sheet
There are many different way & settings for converting images to black and white with Photoshop.
This is a Photoshop file presenting different filters/presets. Just update 1 file & see the various outputs.
Photoshop Brush Tool Cheat Sheet
A compact & helpful guide on Photoshop’s brush tool.
Photoshop Lasso Tool Cheat Sheet
Adobe Illustrator CS4 Shortcuts (Mac – PC)
For the previous versions of Illustrator:
Adobe InDesign CS4 Keyboard Shortcuts (Mac – PC)
For the previous versions of InDesign:
QuarkXPress 8 Keyboard Shortcuts (Mac – PC)
For the previous versions of QuarkXpress:
Adobe Pen Tool Cheat Sheet
The Adobe pen tool works similar in Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. Tips & tricks on using this powerful tool.
Gimp Keyboard Shortcuts (direct link to PDF file)
And more on Gimp:
- Gimp Quick Reference Card (direct link to PDF file)
- Gimp hotkeys on Linux
- Photoshop-ish Keyboard Shortcuts for The Gimp 2.2
Fireworks CS3 Quick Reference (Mac – PC / direct link to PDF file )
Quick references for previous Fireworks versions:
Freehand MX, 3D Studio Max, Illustrator & More Shortcuts
Computer Arts presents keyboard shortcuts for Freehand MX, 3D Studio Max, Illustrator, InDesign & Photoshop.
3D Studio Max 9 Keyboard Shortcuts
Keyboard shortcuts for previous versions of 3D Studio Max:
Adobe Bridge And Camera Raw 3 Shortcuts
Final Cut Pro 5 For Mac Shortcuts
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Fireworks GIMP Illustrator Photoshop
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10 Responses for "20+ Cheat Sheets Handy For Designers"
Thanks u so so much. These are very helpful and finding Gimp in the list is great.
Great resource, thanks!
All I needed was GIMP.
You should’ve called it Adobe Shortcuts!
Nice to see Gimp on here, but do you realize that that is a seven-year-old document? It was written for 1.2. Gimp’s most recent release is 2.6. Maybe somebody in the Gimp community (that would be me) needs to create an updated version?
Great! Thanks so much! I love having all this information together in the one place.
nice post~
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Awesome, these will come in real handy.
Thanks
great! thank you very much!
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