P: Customize keyboard shortcut for creating a new layer

Howdy Braedon,

Thanks.  I appreciate it.

Actually, if a number people can share real-world workflows where such a change is important, I'd be totally happy to bring that back to the team or PM.  The key here is we want to do a zillion improvements -- which do users want more?  So hearing from multiple users, particularly those who share their details, is truly helpful getting work prioritized and vetted.

I'll craft a feature request from this, but more opinions and voices are always helpful.

Thanks,
David

Thanks David. I realize there's nothing you can do for this and I really do appreciate you taking the time to comment and help people. However, I would like this thread to be bumped because this is an idea request forum and I'd like this feature to be added.

The vast majority of the time I am happy with the parameters that are currently defaulted in the dialogue box. It's insufficient to claim that checking to make sure the user wants the current parameters is reason enough to generate a dialogue box, they should be used only when there is significant reason to believe that they do not want the default or the options they're already using; every time you stroke a gradient photoshop doesn't come up with a dialogue box to double check to make sure your gradient is correct because it interrupts the workflow.

I would wager that, 99% of the time when making new layers, people want an empty / transparent layer set to normal. If I don't, I can grab the fill tool and fill it in quicker than I can move the mouse to change dialogue box settings.

I think that photoshop devs even agree with me since there is no dialogue when you click the new layer button (or at the very least there is a checkbox that you can hit so it doesn't generate one). 

A cursory search on the internet shows that a lot of people are interested in finding a way to create a new layer with a hotkey without a dialogue box:
https://planetphotoshop.com/create-a-new-layer-without-a-dialog.html
https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop/changing-default-new-layer-shortcut-without-dialog-box/td-p...
https://www.reddit.com/r/photoshop/comments/5meijj/new_layer_without_dialog_shortcut/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lbLfyITVtE
https://www.eehelp.com/question/create-a-new-layer-without-dialogue-redefine-shortciut/
https://www.photoshopessentials.com/basics/photoshop-layers-essential-shortcuts/

Look, ultimately this isn't a huge problem since a shortcut exists for it already, but it would be great to be able to rebind it! People use a huge diversity of setups, keyboards, operating systems and they have different ergonomic preferences. This is industry standard software, let professionals customize their workflow! 

If there is no way to do it through settings, I will look into the options presented above. In the meantime, I would like this thread open as a feature request.

There are no shortcuts or commands for creating a new layer or document without a dialog.  That doesn't exist.
Unfortunately, there's nothing to bump here.  Creating option opens a dialog to make sure that the user wants all the current parameters.  As Jaroslav commented, you could create an action or script, as those do bypass the dialogs, but not in the normal operational mode.
Thanks,David

Hi David, 
This does need to be bumped, there is a lacking feature here. Your original response to this post also did not respond to the correct question. I thought I made my original question clear enough, but here:

You are reading: "we would like to rebind the keyboard shortcut for making a new layer." 

However, what we are asking is: "is there a way to rebind the shortcut for creating a new layer without a dialogue box popup? (currently cmd + alt + shift + n)

I'd like to set it so that cmd+n (without having to press alt) will create a new layer without a dialogue box. To be very clear, I have attached an image of the dialogue box I am referencing that pops up when you create a new layer.

The reason I want this to happen without a dialogue box is because it is slow and annoying to have to press enter every time after I press the keyboard shortcut.

Hi Braedon,
This doesn't need to be bumped; there's no bug here.  In the existing version of Photoshop, you can go to Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts and change the shortcut under the Application Menu for the Layers menu > New command.  Check out the screenshot:
Hope that helps,David

Hello, I'd like to bump this. I'd really like to be able to reassign creating a new layer without a dialogue box to cmd + n. I'm using a mini keyboard and due to some bindings I have set up I don't really have an alt key, so very frustrating with this workflow I have now.

Yes, it's not possible standart way. 

You can:
1) record it as action and assign custom shortcut to action ...but you can asign only F1-F12 keys with modificator
2) create custom script and assign custom shortcut to the script
3) 3rd party program. Autohotkey and similar. e.g. If Photoshop is active window and my shourtcut is pressed > send ctrl + alt + shift + n

You also can assign another letter for new layer without dialog. But "alt" key should not be used.

You also could be interested in this topic: https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/could-adobe-provide-an-official-list-of-all-t...

Thank you very much Jaroslav Bereza! Solved my problem.

This actually happened cause I wanted to assign CTRL+SHIFT+N to "new smart object via copy" and keep CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+N for new layer without dialog box, but I guess that that's not possible out of the box. Thanks a lot

set "ctrl + shift + n" for new layer with dialog. And alt key shorcut will be create automaticaly. Generaly alt key work like non-dialog option in many shourtcuts. But you can't change shortcut which is created this way.

Is there a way to re-assign CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+N to "new layer without dialog box"?
As you mention, David, the "new layer without dialog box" icon is not part of the Keyboard Shortcut dialog box options. 

I changed CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+N to something else among about 20 other shortcut modifications, and now the only way I can think of getting it back is to reset my shortcuts and re-do the other 19 that I want. Thanks!