How to change keyboard shortcut for fill foreground/background color?
Is there ANY WAY to change the shortcuts for fill foreground color/fill background color?
These are surely the two most essential, most used shortcuts by any serious Photoshop user - the commands we use constantly in every project, more than anything else (except perhaps the l and m keys).
And yet the default keyboard shortcuts for these commands are highly impractical (Ctrl+backspace and Alt+backspace). These strange keyboard shortcuts are cumbersome, and confusingly located - if you want to fill with the foreground color you need to take your right hand off the mouse and press backspace, but if you want to fill with background color you not only have to take your right hand off the mouse, but also to move your left hand all the way over to the right Ctrl button. (The only alternative is to press both backspace and alt with your right hand, which requires tucking your thumb down beneath your hand - something which I prefer not to do).
In any case, these two essential shortcuts are pretty strange and cumbersome, and not something a power user would wish to use. I have set up all my other applications so that I never need to move my right hand off the mouse, or my left hand from the default position. But in Photoshop I've never been able to do this. It's made even more difficult by the way Photoshop limits commands controls, so for example you can't just make "z" zoom out and "x" zoom in, as you can in other Adobe applications.
As a Photoshop user of over 20 years, I've spent the last 20 years moving my hands around wildly just to use these most basic, essential commands. It would be nice if I could finally have a break from all this and be able to assign proper keyboard shortcuts that don't require me to move my hands around.
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