How to Create Custom Keyboard Shortcuts in Photoshop – 2 Minute Tip

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How to Create Custom Keyboard Shortcuts in Photoshop. Create custom keyboard shortcuts in photoshop for those tasks you do frequently. Change existing keyboard shortcuts or create your own.

How to Create Custom Keyboard Shortcuts in Photoshop

Today we’re going to show you how to edit keyboard shortcuts. Keyboard shortcuts will help you speed up your workflow or just make something easier for you, like for instance, creating a smart object.

To create a smart object. You can right-click on the layer and say convert to smart object, or you can come up to the menu where there’s layer smart objects, convert to smart object. Notice that this does not have a shortcut key. This is something that I would do alot. Convert layers to smart objects. Create Custom Keyboard Shortcuts in Photoshop.

How to Create Your Own Keyboard Shortcuts

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Let’s see how we can make our own shortcut keys. To edit our keyboard shortcuts were going to come up here to edit and down to keyboard shortcuts. At the top. here it says shortcuts for application menu. That is the top menu in Photoshop. We’re going to find layer and twirl that down. I’m going to scroll all the way down to smart objects and right here there’s convert to smart object.

Now if we were to put a letter say S Photoshop is going to tell us that is an invalid shortcut. Menu commands must include and then you have shortcut keys like CMD or OPT. Any of these other keys in conjunction with the letter.

If I enter CMD+S it’s going to tell me CMD+S is already in use and will be removed from file saved if accepted. So if I want I can come up here and click accept and it will override that. It will use CMD+S for convert to smart object. But I don’t want to do that because that’s basically to save a file that’s already used.

So instead I’m going to use CTRL+OPT+CMD+S So I’m going to hit accept. Then press OK, I’m going to come over here to this layer and my shortcut was CTRL+OPT+CMD+S There is my smart object. Create Custom Keyboard Shortcuts in Photoshop.

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