One Simple Shortcut to Change Your Photoshop Life!

One of the things we do in Photoshop more often than we realize, is opening up the Color Picker for the foreground color by clicking here, and then choosing the color, whatever we like, hitting OK, and then painting. And if you want to change it, again, clicking here, choosing the color, let's go for green.. 

Instead of doing such a long process, why not assign a shortcut for it?

So, all you have to do is to go to Edit and then Keyboard Shortcuts. From the Shortcuts For drop down menu, we need to choose Tools. Now, scroll down. You're going to find some interesting things. At the bottom, you'll see this - Foreground Color Picker and the Background Color Picker. For now, let's just map Foreground Color Picker. Use any key that you want. Just make sure it's not using an important shortcut. So we're going to choose Y. You see, the shortcut Y is already in use for the History Brush tool or maybe the Art History Brush tool, but we don't use any of them. I don't use them. If you use them, you're going to choose another key. I'm going to hit Accept and then hit OK.

Now, every time I have to open the Color Picker for foreground color, all we have to do is to press Y. It opens up the Color Picker, choose whatever color you like it. Hit OK, paint. Y.. choose color you like, hit OK, paint. Y.. See, it's so easy and fast. 

So, that's all for this video. Thank you so much for watching. I'll see you guys in my next one. Till then, stay tuned and make sure that you keep creating.