Adobe Photoshop CS4 - Manual (Page 661)

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Chapter 22: Keyboard shortcuts
Keyboard shortcuts make you more productive in Photoshop. You can use the default shortcuts listed here, or add and
customize shortcuts to suit your needs.
Customizing keyboard shortcuts
Photoshop lets you view a list of all shortcuts, and edit or create shortcuts. The Keyboard Shortcuts dialog box serves
as a shortcut editor, and includes all commands that support shortcuts, some of which aren’t addressed in the default
shortcut set.
In addition to using keyboard shortcuts, you can access many commands using context-sensitive menus. Context-
sensitive menus display commands that are relevant to the active tool, selection, or panel. To display a context-
sensitive menu, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) in the document window or panel.
Define new keyboard shortcuts
1 Do one of the following:
• Choose Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts.
• Choose Window > Workspace > Keyboard Shortcuts & Menus and click the Keyboard Shortcuts tab.
2 Choose a set of shortcuts from the Set menu at the top of the Keyboard Shortcuts & Menus dialog box.
3 Choose a shortcut type from the Shortcuts For menu:
Application Menus Lets you customize keyboard shortcuts for items in the menu bar.
Panel Menus Lets you customize keyboard shortcuts for items in panel menus.
Tools Lets you customize keyboard shortcuts for tools in the toolbox.
4 In the Shortcut column of the scroll list, select the shortcut you want to modify.
5 Type a new shortcut.
If the keyboard shortcut is already assigned to another command or tool in the set, an alert appears. Click Accept to
assign the shortcut to the new command or tool and erase the previously assigned shortcut. After you reassign a
shortcut, you can click Undo Changes to undo the change, or click Accept and Go To Conflict to assign a new shortcut
to the other command or tool.
6 When you’re finished changing shortcuts, do one of the following:
• To save all changes to the current set of keyboard shortcuts, click the Save Set button . Changes to a custom set
are saved. If you’re saving changes to the Photoshop Defaults set, the Save dialog box opens. Enter a name for the
new set and click Save.
• To create a new set based on the current set of shortcuts, click the Save Set As button . In the Save dialog box,
enter a name for the new set in the Name text box, and click Save. The new keyboard shortcut set will appear in the
pop-up menu under the new name.
• To discard the last saved change without closing the dialog box, click Undo.
• To return a new shortcut to the default, click Use Default.