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P: Keyboard shortcut should be customizable

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November 6, 2019
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I just updated from Photoshop CC to Photoshop 2020. One of the tools I use often is "Toggle composite and grayscale mask in Quick Mask mode", which has a default keyboard shortcut of "~" Tilde in Photoshop CC. However, in Photoshop 2020, this has been re-assigned to a new function called "Toggle between painting and erasing with the same brush tip". Pressing or holding the ~ key activates the new function instead.

How do I "Toggle composite and grayscale mask in Quick Mask mode" now? I can't find/re-assign either of the aforementioned functions in keyboard shortcuts. I tried toggling both "use legacy shortcut" options in the keyboard shortcut menu, followed with a Photoshop restart, with no success.

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ArthurqxAuthor

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Yes! This works! It's a reliable workaround for now.

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Merlin.Pardo

Participant

Same problem here.
I'm using an AZERTY keyboard, and the tilde shortcut (~) is not accessible, I can't find it in the shortcuts preferences, so I can't assign it to another key...
I find it disapointing that a lot of shortcuts are very difficult to access if you don't use an American keyborad.

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Rocketbottle

Inspiring

Hello

Adobe please allow remapping of the tilde key "erase brush" function to another key. The tilde key shortcut does not work in a non-US keyboard layout.

Egor Chistyakov

Inspiring

@alexander_lane_inic6nwfjd16v Yeah, Shift+grave could suite me... But I'm still struggling with Ctrl+Shift+F instead of Ctrl+F for 'Fade'. Argh. Thanks though.

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FeedbackCommunityMember

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It takes some time getting used to but that's how I use the shortcut now. I understand that in order to switch to grayscale mask you do have to press the character input for "~", and not the [` ~] key. That seems to be the logic.

alexanderl16240166

Inspiring

@egor_chistyakov

Not a perfect fix, but elsewhere in the comments here someone pointed out that you can hit shift + ` to achieve the same thing that just ` by itself used to do. An extra key, which is annoying for those of us who never use ` for eraser, but better than not being able to view the greyscale mask without clicking.

Egor Chistyakov

Inspiring

Any news on that? This is what holding me from moving from 2017 version (and also lack of supporting 32bit plugins — I have some I can’t work without).

PECourtejoie

Community Expert

Well, without a numeric keypad, one can't even target the channels on an AZERTY keyboard, or change the opacity of a layer/brush on the fly... That's why I often use a US version.

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FeedbackCommunityMember

Inspiring

I have been experiencing an issue with Photoshop 2020 that while I have the brush tool selected working on masks (quick mask, layer mask, etc) it won't allow me to toggle between composite and grayscale masks using the Tilde (~) shortcut key.
I have to change to any other tool and that allows me to switch the mask functionality. It is extremely not practical since I mostly use brushes when working with masks, and shortcuts are supposed to make workflow easy and intuitive.

I can also make it work while the brush tool is active if I press the Tilde (~) key while also pressing the "Shift" key. I think this is because photoshop understands I'm specifically typing Tilde (~) and not just pressing the key ( ` ~ ). this is very counter-intuitive since it works just fine when simply pressing the key while on any other active tool .

I have seen this issue discussed on another forum entry but I have not found any solution or fix in newer Photoshop updates. I currently use version 21.0.3.

https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/toggle-composite-mask-key-overridden-in-photoshop-2020?topic-reply-list%5Bsettings%5D%5Bfilter_by%5D=all

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FeedbackCommunityMember

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Tausend Dank für deinen Tip! Bin mega happy 🙂

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