'Keyboard shortcuts' is missing 'activate mask'

Moving to Ideas so others can vote and help get the attention of the team for. possible future releases.

Thank you,

Cory

These are all helpful suggestions for workarounds, thanks. I will check into the scripts.

However, I still think it would be useful and totally logical that this keyboard shortcut could be altered through the 'keyboard shortcuts' -menu. Having to change keyboard input methods and install scripts or macros is far from optimal.

Why the shortcut cannot be altered like other commands, who knows? I have seen on the internet other people having the same issue, so here's hoping it'll be added soon.

Well, I've had to remap several standard shortcuts simply because the keys aren't there. The most critical are brush size and hardness, which I've remapped to , and . and N and M.

I havent seen many keyboards but I do believe most of them are identical in keys, the only difference is in mapping and labeling.

OK. So this is apparently region specific.

I have standard keyboard (probably US) but it works with Serbian keyboard too.

I don't use a foreign language or keyboard etc., so I don't know if this helps or not:

This command can be scripted. Then a custom keyboard shortcut can be added to the installed script.

selectLayerCompositeChannel("mask");

function selectLayerCompositeChannel(chanPara) {
    // "RGB" | "mask"
	var s2t = function (s) {
		return app.stringIDToTypeID(s);
	};
	var descriptor = new ActionDescriptor();
	var reference = new ActionReference();
	reference.putEnumerated( s2t( "channel" ), s2t( "channel" ), s2t( chanPara ));
	descriptor.putReference( s2t( "null" ), reference );
	descriptor.putBoolean( s2t( "makeVisible" ), false );
	executeAction(s2t( "select" ), descriptor, DialogModes.NO);
}

jazz-y wrote a toggle script to cycle between the composite channel and mask channel here:

This is a new one to me. I do have the backslash as a primary key on my Norwegian keyboard, but ctrl\ doesn't do anything here. No mask added. Does that work on UK/US keyboards?

I agree that would be a useful shortcut, and now that you mention it I think I have missed it 😉

If you are on Windows install English input method and use it instead of foreign. With English in use you will be able to press Ctrl + \ keyboard shortcut. To quickly activate keyboard use Win logo + Spacebar.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/manage-the-input-and-display-language-settings-in-windows-12a10cb4-8626-9b77-0ccb-5013e0c7c7a2