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Inspiring
April 5, 2011
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P: Allow 00 or Shift 00 to work when setting layer/fill opacity

  • April 5, 2011
  • 16 replies
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currently there's no way to set layer or fill opacity to 0 via the keyboard. Pressing 00 should work but it doesn't.

16 replies

Inspiring
April 6, 2011
Shift 0 sets Fill opacity to 100 (as with shift any number). So it can't be that. I really think that it should be 00 to make it consistent with the behavior of 01 = 1 and 1 = 10.

In the meantime, if you use Keyboard maestro I have an AppleScript that lets you set both fill opacity and layer opacity to 0, then you can assign whatever shortcut you want to it. I use the period key on numpad (and shift period for fill), but I wouldn't recommend that as a default.

Only reason I don't have it as 00 is because keyboard maestro doesn't support double key press as a trigger.
marcbjango
Known Participant
April 6, 2011
I'd love to have a way to set 0%.

I'd be all for 0 as 100% and 00 as 0%. Or shift-0 as 0% (as it's used less) and 0 as 100% (as it is now).
Inspiring
April 6, 2011
I'm a UI designer! I agree! 😉
Inspiring
April 6, 2011
I'm just telling you what they specified.

I'm still looking at the code trying to figure out an alternative.
Yeah, I think I can make 0 and 00 behave differently.
Now to find a (Adobe) UI designer and see if they agree....
Inspiring
April 6, 2011
not really actually. 0 = 100, 00 = 0
same way that 2 = 20 and 02 = 2
What's the difference?
Inspiring
April 6, 2011
Apparently it is a design decision from the UI team -- 00 would map to 100%, because otherwise there would be no shortcut for that.

So yeah, we need something else to get to 0%.