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kulukimaki
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March 10, 2010
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Can't find "Select Next Layer" in Keyboard Shortcuts and Menus Menu

  • March 10, 2010
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I'm running an english Photoshop CS4 on an english Windows 7 machine but with a german keyboard, so I can't use the standard shortcut Ctrl+[ or ].

The entry isnt there in Edit>Keyboard Shortcuts and I'm going crazy trying to find a solution.

I already tried changing the input language and the UI language.

Any Ideas?

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    Jarda Bereza
    Jarda Bereza
    Inspiring
    May 18, 2025

    I know it passed 15 years already. But this is still an issue right? If I want to use this shortcut on Czech keyboard, I can't use it and I can't change it either.

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      kulukimakiAuthor
      Participant
      March 10, 2010

      With action you meant .jsx in extendscript toolkit, right?

      How would i do that for my case?

      Thanks.

      Zeno Bokor
      Zeno Bokor
      Inspiring
      March 10, 2010

      No, i mean make an action using Window->Actions and once you've recorded it, double click on it in the Actions panel and select a shortcut

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      kulukimakiAuthor
      Participant
      March 10, 2010

      Well that kinda sucks.

      I understand that there have to be some core shortcuts, but letting me add an alternative one wouldnt be too bad...

      Tried the workaround, but actions can only have shortcuts with F1, F2...

      Thanks anyways.

      Maybe there is a still a way? By changing something in regedit? Cause it does have a different shortcut in other versions (in the german version for example).

      Message was edited by: kulukimaki

      Reynolds__Mark_
      Reynolds__Mark_
      Inspiring
      March 11, 2010

      kulukimaki - the shortcut for next and previous layer is not Cnrl [ and ].  Its ALT [ and ALT ].

      The two Action steps you would need are …

      If the German keyboard is lacking the left and right square bracket keys - these can be made up with an English keyboard and sent to you as an ATN file if you wanted.

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        Attraktor
        Participant
        October 6, 2010

        Hey Mark,

        I would appreciate it if you could do that for me. These 2 commands are just not accessible via German keyboard. So, if you could kindly create those 2 Action scripts for me, it would be great.

        Thanks in advance,

        Marc.

        Zeno Bokor
        Zeno Bokor
        Inspiring
        March 10, 2010

        Not all the keyboard shortcuts from Photoshop can be customized and that is one of them. The workaround would be to make an action that does what you want and then assign a keyboard shortcut to that.

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