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Command H does not hide marching ants anymore

Explorer ,
Mar 04, 2020 Mar 04, 2020

Using a Mac with CC 20.  Used to be that CMD H would hide the marching ants of a selection.  Now it hides Photoshop. What happened?  How do I fix this, or use a different key to hide the ants?

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Engaged , Mar 05, 2020 Mar 05, 2020

Sorry I forgot that fixing this behavior has changed - not sure which version or OS - but now:

In Photoshop go Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts, go to View, and change the shortcut for Extras to Cmd-H.

You'll get a warning that this changes an OS shortcut which is fine (I think the OS shortcut changes to Cmd-Ctrl-H). You may need to quit Photoshop and relaunch, but Cmd-H will hide marching ants after that.

 

Otherwise you can continue to use Cmd-Ctl-H to hide selections.

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Community Beginner , Jan 21, 2021 Jan 21, 2021

Sorry for the confusion. PS 2021 on Mac

Go to

- Edit

     -Keyboard Shortcuts

           -Select

               - View - (Then finally)

                     - Selection Edges.

 

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Explorer ,
Jan 07, 2025 Jan 07, 2025
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Ummm… sure. But when I hit Command H to put it in there, it hides Photoshop. You can’t type it in the space without it triggering the offending action. 

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New Here ,
May 17, 2021 May 17, 2021

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New Here ,
Dec 01, 2021 Dec 01, 2021

I’m using Photoshop 2022, and this worked for me…

 

Apple > Preference > Keyboard > Shortcuts > App Shortcuts

  • Select the + and add “No action” 
  • make the shortcut SHIFT-CMD-H.

 

Hope this helps!

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Community Beginner ,
Dec 22, 2021 Dec 22, 2021

Hello ! 

I recently experiment exactly the same problem as you...

On a Macbook Air M1 under Mac OS 12.1 : this is new...

 

I've trye many different solution, and no succes. Including modifi the text of the Préference Keyboard Shortcuts in Application Support.

 

Nothing worked... 

 

Any new informations ?

 

 

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Community Expert ,
Dec 25, 2021 Dec 25, 2021

@Jean-François Vibert bonjour!

je remarque que CMD+H est listé deux fois, qu'en est-il s'il n'est utilisé que dans l'un des deux raccourcis ? Normalement, il devrait y avoir un message d'erreur, non?

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Participant ,
Nov 27, 2023 Nov 27, 2023

I really hate this stuff. I still can't get command H to work. Why did this change. It's as bad as the Command F key putting me in search!

 

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Community Beginner ,
Nov 28, 2023 Nov 28, 2023

See prior fix. This is a quote:

In Photoshop go Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts, go to View, and change the Shortcut for Extras to Cmd-H.

You'll get a warning that this changes an OS shortcut which is fine (I think the OS shortcut changes to Cmd-Ctrl-H). You may need to quit Photoshop and relaunch, but Cmd-H will hide marching ants after that.

Otherwise you can continue to use Cmd-Ctl-H to hide selections."

Per my setup osx Sonoma, M2.

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Participant ,
Nov 28, 2023 Nov 28, 2023

Thanks. On another thread someone showed how to do it with a nice animation, which I needed because it was impossible for me to find otherwise. I just have to remember to keep saving my workspace to keep it installed when I reset preferences after the usual spinning ball comes back after about ten to twenty hours worth of Photoshop work.

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Community Beginner ,
May 18, 2024 May 18, 2024

This has all changed. I have experienced this in Photoshop 24. If you have experienced it in Photoshop 24:

  • Choose Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts.

  • Keyboard shortcuts: Menus
  • Then choose shortcuts for : in tab: Applications Menus
  • In box, scroll down to Windows
  • Choose Window > Workspace > Keyboard Shortcuts & Menus and click the Keyboard Shortcuts tab.

  • In the little box to the right. type Command H. 
  • It will tell you warning this Key command is already in use. click Accept and Go To Conflict to assign a new shortcut to the other command or tool.
  • there will be a link below saying accept and go to conflict.
  • Next part is tricky. because I was looking for the selection tools and did not find them easilty. Go through the tools and under SHOW then SELECTION EDGES . Clik on this. Type in Command H as you did before. It will give you the little open box to type to the right. After that it will warn you again that this is already in use. Hit accept anyway, this will change the key command. If you are unsure you can hit cancel. 
  • I was trying to make this easier, if you want the long form via Adobe here is the page go to customize keyboard shortcuts in the Adobe help. helpx.adobe.com
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