New Photoshop Short-Cut
Ok, maybe it’s not new, but it is new to me. And I don’t know anyone else who knows about this short-cut.
Call me a short-cut junky, but there is no doubt that using keyboard short-cuts save a ton of time! And some things you just can’t even do with out a little assistance from the keyboard.
For a long time I have been looking for a Photoshop short-cut that will get me out of a text box after I am finished typing. The way that I (and most everyone else that I talk to) get out of a text box after I am finished writing is by mousing over to the toolbar and clicking on the arrow tool (or any tool to get you out of typing mode). You can also hit the “Esc” key, but this gets you out of the text box without saving your changes.
I’ve also searched extensively online to find a solution, and although there are a lot of great resources, from very basic short-cuts, to PDF’s with 5 pages(!) of short-cuts, i have never found a short-cut for this particular function.
…until last night
when i was feverishly working on some project at 3 in the morning and I accidentally hit command + E and jumped out of the text box I was working in. And bingo, I had my solution. And now I pass that knowledge onto you. Control or Command + E gets you safely out of a text box after you are finished typing.
(CORRECTION: I just found out that the correct shortcut is Command + Enter. Command + E will actually jump you out, but sometimes it will merge the text layer down)