{"id":692,"date":"2019-02-05T20:21:42","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T20:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wcm-ws-wordpress-webapp-community.azurewebsites.net\/?p=692"},"modified":"2026-06-05T09:18:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T16:18:39","slug":"set-up-photoshop-hot-keys-on-your-wacom-tablet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/set-up-photoshop-hot-keys-on-your-wacom-tablet\/","title":{"rendered":"How to set up Adobe Photoshop hot keys on your Wacom tablet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The initial character design phase is all about letting your ideas flow and capturing them digitally, mixing and matching to create the perfect character. You can streamline your workflow to create quickly by using your <a title=\"Wacom pen tablet or pen display\" href=\"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/en-us\/wacom-pen-display-pen-tablets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wacom pen tablet or pen display<\/a> and the pressure sensitive features of your Wacom pen.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>In the video below, the folks at <a title=\"Digital Tutors\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pluralsight.com\/digitaltutors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Digital Tutors<\/a> design a goblin minion using Adobe Photoshop CS6, showing you how to configure your settings in Photoshop to take advantage of the ExpressKeys, touch strip, and radial menu for improved productivity in the painting and design phase.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Top Tip: Photoshop Hotkeys and Wacom Tablet Settings\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/744Tr4NAxpM?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Adjust your settings in Photoshop to work faster and benefit from:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>ExpressKeys<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 Set up your ExpressKeys to take advantage of buttons you use all the time, like command, shift, option and spacebar, along with the keys you can\u2019t do without, like tab, brush, lasso and quick-mask.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Touch Strips<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 Configure your touch strips so you can scale your brushes up and down for random control, or use them to recall \u2018undo\u2019 options.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Radial Menu<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 Program one-click access to all the buttons you use on your keyboard, from the tip of your stylus pen. In your pen settings you can program the back button to access your radial menu, while the front button can be set as right-click, to quickly change the screen mode.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Setting up the intuitive one-touch features of the ExpressKeys, touch strips, and radial menu will help you increase productivity, letting you quickly pan across multiple images, flip through different windows, and make selections on the fly \u2013 saving you time. Now you can live inside your paintings instead of the menus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to set up Adobe Photoshop hot keys on your Wacom tablet for extra efficiency and creativity in character design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":698,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2317,2338,2341,2340],"tags":[135],"class_list":["post-692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-digital-drawing-painting","category-how-to","category-software","category-products","tag-adobe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}