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1. #PHOTOSHOP ASSIGN HOTKEY TO AN ACTION HOW TO#
2. #PHOTOSHOP ASSIGN HOTKEY TO AN ACTION FREE#
3. #PHOTOSHOP ASSIGN HOTKEY TO AN ACTION MAC#

Under the Shortcuts For: dropbox are different sets of shortcuts. A new box will appear called Keyboard Shortcuts and Menus. To do that, go to the Edit menu and select Keyboard Shortcuts. When you can’t remember, you don’t know, or if you are absolutely certain of the Photoshop keyboard shortcut and it’s not working, check the master list inside Photoshop. When certain layers need to be selected, use the keyboard shortcuts: Alt + (PC) / Option + (Mac) to record a Select Backward Layer command, or Alt + (PC).

#PHOTOSHOP ASSIGN HOTKEY TO AN ACTION MAC#

I use like 30 different applications across both Mac and Windows operating systems and I’m constantly scratching my head some days trying to recall these obscure shortcuts I once knew. Now that you’ve checked all the basic places when your Photoshop keyboard shortcuts are not working, it’s time to make sure you are using the proper shortcuts.

#PHOTOSHOP ASSIGN HOTKEY TO AN ACTION FREE#

When something like Free Transform is active and you haven’t accepted or rejected the change you made, you can’t do anything else.Īre you need to video editing? If so, get some of my free video editing guides! Finding the Correct Keyboard Shortcuts in PS

Speaking of Free Transform, the last of the basic things to check is to make sure you aren’t actively in an action such as Free Transform. So you can be smashing Command/Control+T with the Background layer selected and absolutely nothing will happen. For example, the Background layer cannot be Free Transformed. You can choose any combination of a function key, the Ctrl key (Windows) or Command key (Mac OS), and the Shift key (for example, Ctrl+Shift+F3), with these exceptions: In Windows, you cannot use the F1 key, nor can you use F4 or F6 with the Ctrl key. The performance window contains several options for customizing the Photoshop performance. Assigns a keyboard shortcut to the action. To set the number of the undo steps, navigate to the Edit menu and select the Preferences-> Performance option, and it will open the performance setting for Photoshop. Do you have the right layer selected in the Layers panel?Ĭertain types of layers can do things that other layers cannot. We can also specify the number of the history steps that Photoshop keeps track of. Do you have the correct layer selected? Maybe you’re using Command/Control+comma (,) to turn off a layer’s visibility and it’s not working. Next, make sure you have the right thing selected and that that thing can do the action of the keyboard shortcut. With the Rotate View Tool Active, you can click hold anywhere on the image, to turn the canvas. Alternatively, you can use the keyboard shortcut R to select the Rotate View Tool directly. Click and hold on the Hand tool in the Toolbar, to make the submenu with the Rotate View Tool visible. So, to begin make sure Photoshop is actually active. Locate and select the Rotation tool in the Tools panel.

I’ll try to use Photoshop keyboard shortcuts only to find them not working. Is Photoshop active? Is the current program that is open on your computer Photoshop? Often times when I Opt/Alt+Tab over to Finder/Explorer then close the Finder/Explorer tab, I might not be automatically brought back into Photoshop.

#PHOTOSHOP ASSIGN HOTKEY TO AN ACTION HOW TO#

While the script will run from there, I don't know how to create a shortcut for it in that location.First Steps in Troubleshooting Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts In this case, I'd like the files in a folder named c:/Programming Projects/PhotoShop Scripts Etc/FrameWithUI. I would like the script to be located outside of the main PhotoShop script to keep my files more cleanly organized. That way, if a setting needs to be tweaked, it can be changed immediately, with all other settings remaining the same. One of my goals in developing the script was to have the frame drawn while the dialog box is still active. That won't help me, though, because the result of the action does not appear until the frame dilog is closed. The standard way to invoke a script in an arbitrary folder is to create an action that invokes the script, and assign a hotkey to the action. What determines whether a file appears in that list or not? There are a lot of files in my scripts folder that do not appear in that drop-down list. I was surprised (although I'm sure you wouldn't be) to see that it appeared in the drop-down list immediately. I put my script back into my main scripts folder and restarted PhotoShop. I'd like to understand it better, and I'd like to know if there is a way to assign a shortcut key to a script outside of that folder.