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March 28, 2025
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Command+x shortcut not working in photoshop

  • March 28, 2025
  • 3 replies
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Hello 🙂 hope you are all well.

My command+x shortcut does not work at all in photoshop. but it works perfectly fine everywhere else, illustrator etc. 

I have tried rebooting my mac, setting everything to default from the pc settings, changed the language of the keyboard, deleting files from photoshop Option+Command+Shift, resetting all the tools, setting the shortcuts to default and rasterizing the layer. every other shortcut works fine in photoshop but not command+x.

what could be the issue?

thanks for the help, best regards. 

Correct answer Claire H.

Hi @Artem_Zherebkin9679, Welcome to the Photoshop forums! Looks like you're having some trouble with your keyboard shortcuts. When using the default Cmd+X shortcut in Photoshop, make sure part of the image or object is selected to delete part of the image. If you would like to cut a layer when using Cmd+X, you can change your keyboard shortcuts to make them work better for your workflow. Go to Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts and make the changes you would like to see. Let me know if that helps! ^CH

3 replies

Participant
April 13, 2025

Hey! Thanks for your answer. I got used to it and been using backspace since. Appreciate it 

Participant
March 28, 2025

apparently I can't even quickly delete a text box using cmnd x

 

Claire H.
Community Manager
Claire H.Community ManagerCorrect answer
Community Manager
April 8, 2025

Hi @Artem_Zherebkin9679, Welcome to the Photoshop forums! Looks like you're having some trouble with your keyboard shortcuts. When using the default Cmd+X shortcut in Photoshop, make sure part of the image or object is selected to delete part of the image. If you would like to cut a layer when using Cmd+X, you can change your keyboard shortcuts to make them work better for your workflow. Go to Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts and make the changes you would like to see. Let me know if that helps! ^CH

Participant
March 28, 2025

forgot to mention because i thought i wrote everything - I can command X a selection but cannot delete an image quickly, so annoying...