Whether you need to learn something quickly or need a quick refresher on how to do certain tasks, cheat sheets allow you to do either one with relative ease. Print them out and decorate your workspace or save/bookmark them for later use, whichever way suits you best. In this collection, you’ll find 40+ of the best cheat for graphic designers for either the Mac or the Windows operating systems.
You’ll find cheat sheets for popular graphic design applications such as Photoshop, Illustrator, and Fireworks. These cheat sheets available in various formats including PDF, PNG, and web-based (HTML) formats.
Photoshop and Photoshop Elements cheat sheets
Adobe Photoshop Shortcuts
Photoshop Quick Reference Card (Mac, Windows)
Black & White Cheatsheet For Photoshop
Adobe® Photoshop® CS4 Keyboard Shortcuts (Mac, Windows)
Photoshop Secret Shortcuts
Adobe Photoshop Cheat Sheet
Adobe Photoshop Elements Cheat Sheet
Photoshop Elements 5
Photoshop Toolbox Reference
Adobe CS4 Help
Adobe® Photoshop® CS3 Keyboard Shortcuts (Mac, Windows)
Photoshop Cheat Sheet (Brown University, MS Word format)
Adobe Photoshop 7.0 Quick Reference Card for Windows
Illustrator cheat sheets
Illustrator CS3 Useful Keyboard Shortcuts (Mac, Windows)
Illustrator CS2 Useful Keyboard Shortcuts (Mac, Windows)
Adobe Illustrator Shortcuts
Computer Arts – Keyboard shortcut cards
(also includes a variety of other cheat sheets such as Freehand and InDesign).
Fireworks cheat sheets
Fireworks CS3 Quick Reference Card (Mac, Windows)
Fireworks MX Quick Reference Card (Mac, Windows)
Print Design cheat sheets
Designers Toolbox: Commercial Envelopes
Color Codes Matching Chart HTML (CMYK, RGB Hex)
cyro pantone foldout
Designers Toolbox: Postcard Sizes
Designers Toolbox: Proof Reading Marks
Designers Toolbox: Standard Foldings
Designers Toolbox: Paper Sizes
Designers Toolbox: Conversion Chart
Designers Toolbox: Binding Styles
Designers Toolbox: Standard Web Banners
I.D.E.A.S. Graphics Cheatsheet
InDesign Cheat Sheet – Tools you’ll always use
GIMP cheat sheets
Gimp Quick Reference Card v.1.0
The Gimp Cheat Sheet
Got one that’s not on the list?
There’s a ton of useful cheat sheets out there, and if you know of one that’s not included above, please share it with the rest of us in the comments!
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