Being able to create and customize your own shortcuts is a welcome new feature in Photoshop CS. The way you access it is under Edit, Keyboard shortcuts and in its default mode you have got your little keys here, arrows to access the different areas. Another way you change a shortcut is to click into it and I use the save as command quite a bit and I want a shortcut that’s easier to remember and faster to access than Shift/Control+S. So I am going to press F1 and it’s telling me here that F1 can be assigned to actions, that’s fine. In the default setting F1 is also assigned to the Photoshop help. But I don’t use that very often. So I am going to go ahead and accept it. Now if I want to return to the default, of course, I just click on the use default. So let me go up here and collapse that dialogue box and go in to layer because here’s another one that I use quite a bit is to flatten the image. Now as you can see lot of these don’t have any shortcuts assigned to them. So let me put Control+E. Control+E is already been assigned to something else. Now I can still accept this and go to where the shortcut was originally assigned and change that or I can try something else. Control, let me just, I like this Control+’. Now that isn’t assigned to anything so I am going to accept that. Click ok. Let me try my new shortcuts now. F1 save as, that’s working great. Control+’ flatten the image. So that’s how you create and customize your own shortcuts.
Course: | Adobe Photoshop for Photographers (3rd Edition) |
Author: | Gavin Phillips |
SKU: | 33611 |
ISBN: | 1-932808-56-6 |
Release Date: | 2005-03-31 |
Duration: | 4 hrs / 76 lessons |
Work Files: |
Yes |
Captions: | No |
Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |