I’ve decided to make a small collection of some weird hotkeys and stuff that I use all the time but I’m pretty sure not many people know about. I am left handed so I find that with my right hand free most of the time any shortcut I can use that includes the mouse is pretty efficient. All these clips were recorded using Sai version 2 which is awesome and you should definitely get it, if you’ve already bought Sai 1 then you have Sai 2!









This one is very useful for trying to find what layer that one accidental pixel is on, simply hold ctrl-shift and then click on the pixel you want to switch to and it will change your active layer to that one.



Sai 1 - Works

Sai 2 - Works

Photoshop - Works with Ctrl-Alt + Click

I use this all the time for matching brush sizes to lines, hold ctrl-alt and click on one side of your line and drag to the the other and bam you matched your brush size. It’s also pretty handy for changing opacity on the fly.



Sai 1 - Works (No opacity change)

Sai 2 - Works

Photoshop - Works with Alt + Click and drag





There are a few different ones here. When using the transform tool (Ctrl-t) holding alt in combination with some other buttons has some useful effects.



Alt: Symmetrical stretch

Alt - Shift: Centered scaling

Alt - Ctrl: Cross corner warp (Not holding alt will only effect one corner)

Alt - Ctrl - Shift: Single side scaling (Not Holding alt will only effect one corner)



Sai 1 - Doesn’t Work

Sai 2 - Works

Photoshop - Works



Hope these can help some of you!