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Photoshop enables you to create and modify keyboard shortcuts for all application menus, palette menus, and tools. You can also remove any existing keyboard shortcuts and reassign them to another command or tool. Photoshop enables you to save multiple commands in shortcut sets that can correspond to workflow, tasks, or users. Thus, the same keystroke can generate different results, depending on which shortcut set you load.

1. Select or Create New Shortcut Set
Select Edit, Keyboard Shortcuts to launch the Keyboard Shortcuts and Menus dialog box. Select a target shortcut set from the Set pull-down menu at the top of the dialog box, or click the New Set button to the right of the menu to create a copy of the set that is currently loaded. The Photoshop Defaults keystroke set is automatically loaded if no other sets have been created.



2. Select Shortcut Type
Select a shortcut category from the Shortcuts for pull-down menu. The category options are Application Menus, Palette Menus, and Tools. When you select a shortcut category, the command list changes to reflect the options associated with that type.



3. Enter Keystroke
Select the tool or menu command you want to assign to a keyboard shortcut. Expand the list of menu commands by clicking the arrow to the left of each command, revealing subgroupings of individual commands. Enter the keystroke combination for the shortcut you want to assign to the tool or command, being sure to include the Ctrl key or a function key in addition to an alphanumeric key.



4. Resolve Any Conflicts
If the desired keystroke is already in use by another command, a prompt identifies the conflict and asks whether you want to remove the keyboard shortcut from the previous command. Click Accept and Go to Conflict or cancel the request by clicking Undo Changes. Clicking Accept and Go to Conflict opens the previous command and allows you to select an alternative keystroke for that command.



5. Accept Changes
After you have entered all keyboard shortcuts, click OK to save changes to the set. Now whenever you press one of the assigned keyboard combinations, the associated command or tool is selected.



6. About Menus
The Menus tab provides options for hiding seldom-used menu items or highlighting menu items with any color-coding system you might devise. Select Application Menus or Palette Menus from the Menu for drop-down list. Select the menu you want to affect and then select the specific menu command. Click the Eye icon to toggle visibility of that menu item, or select a highlight color from the drop-down list.