All language subtitles for 1. Mac OS Shortcuts Shortcuts Kolder Creative

So as you

learn throughout this course,
I'm obsessed with keyboard shortcuts,

and I think that just stems
from my obsession with saving time.

I hate wasting time performing
repetitive tasks when I don't have to.

That's why keyboard
shortcuts are so crucial for my workflow.

In this lesson, I want to show
you guys a few keyboard shortcuts and tips

that I use on the Mac operating system
to make my life a bit easier.

So the first couple of shortcuts are
very simple, but I use them all the time.

The first one is command and when we are
anywhere in the Mac OS operating system.

So the way that you know, that is

if you look in the top left
you'll see finder here.

So for example,

if I have, you know, a safari window
open or something, it'll show safari here.

But if I just click on, see my desktop
anywhere, I'm brought to my finder.

And if I hit command

and while I'm in my finder,
it will open up a new finder window.

This is a shortcut I use all the time,
probably hundreds of times

every single day.

It just makes so much more sense

than having to go up to the file menu here
and selecting new finder window.

Just hit command and you will be presented
with a new finder window.

Now the next shortcut is command shift.

And so if I have any finder window open
or my desktop over here,

if I hit a command shift
and it will create a new folder.

So this is the alternative to right
clicking and selecting new folder,

which doesn't take too much time,
but I prefer to use command shift

and in that way I could just have my hands
on my keyboard already command shift

and I can already name the folder.

And just like that
I've created a new folder so command shift

and super important.

The next one is command, backspace
or delete.

So with any folder or any item
in your finder selected, you can hit

command delete and it will automatically
bring that to your trash over here.

So if I had command Z, we could
bring it back into the desktop over here.

And again, if I hit command, delete
or command backspace,

it will automatically bring it
into the trash.

Now, at any point, if I want to empty the
trash, so let's open this up over here.

We can see I got a bunch of stuff in here.

What I can do is select
command shift to delete

and it will show me this pop up window
right here.

And I can choose to empty the trash
just like that.

This is a much faster alternative
than having to open up the trash

every single time and selecting
empty over here.

I can simply be anywhere in
my Mac OS operating system.

I could just have any finder window open
and I can just hit command, shift, delete.

And that shortcut
will allow me to empty the trash.

So that's another one
that I use all the time.

Obviously,
you got to be careful with deleting files.

You want to make sure
that these are all files

that you are ready
to completely get rid of.

But emptying the trash is something
that I do pretty regularly,

and this is the shortcut for that.

Next up, we have command spacebar.

So when I hit command spacebar,
I get the spotlight search.

And this basically allows me
to search my entire computer

plus any drives or external disks
that are connected to the computer.

So if I want to find a sound effect,
for example, maybe seagulls,

we can see all the different

search results in my entire computer
for the word seagull.

So these are some BBC sound
effects over here.

Looks like it's a folder of birds
sound effects,

but the spotlight search
is just a very quick way

for me to search my entire computer
for any files that I'm looking for.

And again, that okay, is command spacebar.

So next step, we have control
plus our arrow keys.

So if I hit control up, we can see that
we have this zoomed out view

of our current desktop and all the windows
that are in that desktop.

So right now there's nothing in here.

But if I create some new finder windows,
spread them out over here.

Let's say things are a bit messy.

If I hit control up,
we are able to get this zoomed out view

of all the windows spread out
neatly across our screen here.

And if I bring my mouse up

to the top over here, I'm able to choose
what desktop I want to be working in.

If you don't see multiple
of these desktops over here,

then just go over here to the right
and you can add one in any time.

And this is just a great way
to separate workstations.

Sometimes I'll devote one desktop
to after effect stuff,

another one to Da Vinci,
maybe another one to Photoshop,

and I'll just open those programs
and leave them open

in these different desktops.

This is way, way better
than having all of your programs open

in one desktop and trying to switch
between all those different programs.

That's always just a mess and a headache.

It's always so nice

to create multiple desktops like this
and switch between them whenever you want.

And of course,
if you have too many desktops over here,

you can go up here to the top
left of any of these desktop icons

and you can just close them
just like that.

So going to close this extra
one over here as well,

and let's select this desktop
to go back into our normal view.

Now, another shortcut to hide
between desktops

very quickly is the control and left
and right arrow keys.

So if I hit control and the left arrow
is going to bring me over to the desktop,

to the left of the one
that I'm currently working on,

If I hit the right arrow key,
it's going to take me to the right one

so I can just keep doing that

and quickly jump to any desktop
that I want, just like that.

Now, another thing
that I've personally done

is I've programed some of the keys
on my mouse to do this for me.

So if I click one of the buttons
on my mouse,

it will give me this zoomed out view
and I can quickly jumps

to any of these desktops just like this.

So I don't even have to press
any buttons on my keyboard,

which is pretty huge
and has been a huge time saver for me.

And I have another button on my mouse
programed to switch

between the different desktops.

So if I'm in this one,
I can just hit that button on my mouse

and it will automatically take me
to the next desktops

to the right of the one
that I'm working on.

Unfortunately, my mouse right now
only has three Programable buttons.

I definitely want to upgrade to a mouse
that has more,

but I do really like this mouse
because it's super light,

It's the Logitech Pro, super light
and it's been pretty awesome.

I love it,

but I am hoping that they make this
same version with like two extra buttons

because that would be huge.

Just to help me better
navigate the Mac operating system.

And if you guys are interested in learning

how I programed these buttons on my mouse,

I used the Logitech software
that comes with the mouse to do so.

I created some custom macros,
which is not that complicated.

I'll be making a video
on this in the future,

but I just wanted to let you guys know
that that is an option and it's something

I definitely recommend you do, especially
if this is your full time career

or you're planning for it
to be your full time career.

It's important to have little time
saving hacks like that,

and the custom buttons on
the mouse is a huge one.

So the next shortcut
is command up and down.

So if I have a finder window open
like this, I can click the up and down

keys to select
what folder I want to select,

and if I have a folder selected,
I can hit command down to enter that

folder and I can hit command up
to go back out of that folder.

So this is just another quick way
to navigate between folders.

So let's say I want it to go into fusion.

I can hit command down right away.

I have entered that folder.

I can navigate to the other folder
that I want to go to.

I can take command down, enter that one.

And if I ever want to go out of a folder,
I can hit command up,

go out of it,
go out of it again by hitting command up.

And this is just a great way to quickly
navigate between

folders, go in and out of them
without having to use your mouse.

Now, I think this one is a bit subjective.

It just depends on where your hands are.

If your hands are already on
your keyboard,

this could be a great way
to navigate in and out of folders.

But to be honest, I do use my mouse
a lot of the time as well

because it can be faster
in some situations.

I think it really just
depends on where your hands are.

But I do find myself occasionally

using the shortcut command up and down
just to enter in and out of folders.

So the next troika is command option D,
and this basically allows you to turn

hiding on and off for your application bar
at the bottom of your screen

so you can see it when I hit Command
option D, it brings it up.

If I hit it again, it hides it.

This is something
that I personally use a bunch,

especially when I'm screen recording
and I just want to have extra real estate

so that that application bar

at the bottom of the screen
doesn't take up space command.

Option D is

just a quick way to bring it up into view
and then hide it whenever you need to.

So the alternative to using the shortcut
is just to go down to the application bar

and where this line is, you can right
click on it and select turn hiding on

or off, depending on the current state
of the application bar.

You can see
that takes a little bit more time.

So I prefer to just use the shortcut
command option.

D So another huge time saving
tip is to add the folders that you use

the most on your computer
to your sidebar of your finder window.

Here.

So over here you can see that I have
colored tab in show renders working files.

These are all folders that I access
regularly and instead

of having to jump around
between different folders on my computer

to find them every single time,
I just add them over here to the left

so that they're always easily accessible
and I can click into them whenever I want.

I could just open up a new finder window
and they're always right there.

So that is a huge time saving tip.

And the way to do that is to just create
a new folder anywhere really.

So on my desktop I can just hit command
shift and let's call this screenshots

for example, and I can drag this over here
just like that.

I'll get this blue line
and it will add it in over here.

Now I already have a screenshots
folder right here which I use regularly,

but now whenever I click this
it will take me into this folder

that I've created on my desktop here.

Now, the place that I have

this other screenshots
folder saved is actually in my documents.

I don't like having too many folders
on my desktop at any point When I'm done

accessing these folders, I no longer need
to have regular access to them.

I can just right click on any of them
and select remove from sidebar.

Huge time saving tip.

If you're not already

implementing this into your workflow,
then you are missing out.