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emilya64790544
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January 9, 2020
Question

Camera Raw shortcut not working--Photoshop 2020

  • January 9, 2020
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CTRL+SHIFT+A does nothing in both Photoshop 2020 and Photoshop CC 2019. All other keyboard shortcuts I have tried work. 

Camera Raw Filter plug-in is up to date, as of 1/9/2020. I'm on Windows 10.

 

I've tried the default keyboard shortcuts and modified keyboard shortcuts. I can modify the specific shortuct to something else and it works, but then I can't change the shortcut back to its default manually--it's like I'm not pressing any keys at all; I have to click Use Default to get it back.

All legacy shorcuts are turned off. 

 

I know I can change it to something different to get A shortcut for Camera Raw Filter, but I'm used to the default and it's engrained in my muscle memory. 😞

7 replies

Participant
July 7, 2025

ctrl shift a photoshop not working 

ben-erwin
Known Participant
November 9, 2023

Maker sure your color mode is RGB. I found this article and setting color mode to RGB fixed it.

Participant
November 9, 2023

OH MY GOODNESS!!!!  @ben-erwin that worked!!!  Thank you so much!

Participant
October 12, 2023

I know what your talking about NEF files,can't open them eather or view them. I bought Nikon Z8 and if I try to view Raw files can't, get message say can't read format. If I us my older raw files they open fine. I found out that Lightroom and Lightroom Clasic can open and I can view them, But not in photoshop. Nikon, Mac and Adobe said it's a software issue. I't year you can view immages in both Lightroom but not photoshop. I do everything in Lightroom and transfer to Photoshop and they work fine.

 

preetmandavia
Participant
October 20, 2020

So I found out why it wasnt working. 
I had another app using the same keyboard shortcut. If you open the application taskbar (little arrow on the bottom right of your desktop. Restore default shortcuts in photoshop, and exit apps in the app taskbar one by one until you can use Ctrl+Shift+A again. For me it was Razer Cortex's Alexa plugin. Good luck!

KarthikPollachi
Participating Frequently
October 19, 2020

Shift + ctrl + A

This shortcut is working properly.Please reset photoshop. 

Windows: Shift + ctrl + Alt  - If we long  press these three keys and try opening Photoshop,

you will see this pop-up menu,press yes,and it will reset automatically .

preetmandavia
Participant
October 19, 2020

As mentioned above, resetting settings does not help. I have it remapped as well at the moment but its still annoying that this is the only keyboard shortcut not working and probably my most used as well.

preetmandavia
Participant
October 19, 2020

Having the same issue. Were you able to fix?

 

emilya64790544
Participating Frequently
October 19, 2020

No, I haven't. I've remapped it to CTRL+ALT+Q.

emilya64790544
Participating Frequently
October 19, 2020

Whoops, I mean CTRL+Shift+Q

JJMack
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 9, 2020

Does menu Filter show that Shift+Ctrl+A is still the shortcut

Or has it been reassigned

I find Photoshop seems to loose Focus at time no shortcuts work on windows till I click on the image  where Photoshop regains focus.

JJMack
emilya64790544
Participating Frequently
January 9, 2020
 

The Filter menu shows the shortcut.

JJMack
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 9, 2020

If Other shortcuts are working try resetting Photoshop Tools and your Photoshop preferences.

 

JJMack