How to Undo Multiple Times and Use Spring Loaded Hotkeys in Photoshop

This is a super quick but super essential hot key tip for anybody who is working in Photoshop.  portrait photographer Nathaniel Dodson (from the website tutvid) demonstrates how to undo multiple times in Photoshop.

So this is super simple and most of you are probably familiar with it already but if you are not or you somehow learned it and forgot about it – pressing the cmd+alt+Z / cntrl+alt+Z (PC/MAC).

If we are already on the subject of extremely useful short-cut keys in Photoshop – this second one is a little bit less known but still very useful. It deals with what is known as spring loaded hotkeys. Using spring loaded hotkeys you can quickly switch to virtually any tool in Photoshop and get back when you stop holding the key combination (this can be good for when you what to work quickly and briefly move to a different tool). Here is the official full list of shortcut keys in Photoshop.

Spring loaded hotkeys in Photoshop

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You can find many more Photoshop video tutorials on LensVid’s Photoshop section. You can also check Dodson’s previous videos here on LensVid.

Iddo Genuth
Iddo Genuth is the founder and chief editor of LensVid.com. He has been a technology reporter working for international publications since the late 1990's and covering photography since 2009. Iddo is also a co-founder of a production company specializing in commercial food and product visual content.

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