European Keyboard Move/Select Layer Up/Down Workaround

[Benjamin Root]

For any European keyboard users who can't use the Alt/Opt + [ / ] (or the other variations), I've made an Action Set which includes the following:

• Select Forward Layer (Alt + ])
• Select Backward Layer (Alt + [)
• Add Forward Layer (Alt + Shift + ])
• Add Backward Layer (Alt + Shift + [)
• Move Forward Layer (Ctrl + ])
• Move Backward Layer (Ctrl + [)

Instructions:

1. Download Move One Layer.atn.zip
2. Extract the zip folder's contents (Move One Layer.atn) to Photoshop's *Actions folder
3. Load the ATN file (see image below)
4. Set keyboard shortcuts for each Action in the set, or;
5. For use within an Action of your own:

• Expand the appropriate Action's contents and duplicate the step
• Drag the duplicate step to the correct position within your own Action.

*Actions folder

• Windows: C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop [version]\Presets\Actions
• Macintosh: ~Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe Photoshop [version]/Presets/Actions

Hope this helps!

-Please ask any unrelated questions in the Photoshop General Discussion

[dinesh137]

that was helpful!!

[Benjamin Root]

Glad to hear it helped!

[Cyrit]

Thanks mate!

[gorgio]

Thank you. It is what I was looking for. Super helpful!

[swarc]

Aaaah yeah! THX! Gonna try it! Had a lot of trouble with this, when I made actions.

[phild9436364]

Thanks a lot. Very useful. Cheers.

[Ro22241176hwlm]

Hello Benjamin,

I seam to have find the solution to this heard scratcher. But the link to your action is unfortunately no longer valid. Would you mind uploading it again ? Thank you for your time. Best regards,

[PECourtejoie]

@Ro22241176hwlm I was able to get it from the link.

[Ro22241176hwlm]

My mistake.

I must've done something wrong.
It all works fine !

Thank you @PECourtejoie 

[jeronen]

Still works. Thank you so much 👌

[aron_farkas]

God bless you! 🙏🏻

[Stephen_A_Marsh]

Just a note, layer visibility affects the layer selection, so if the layer visibility is off for the next sequential layer, the layer will be skipped and the next visible layer will be selected when using Alt/Opt + [ or Alt/Opt + ]

Scripts can overcome this layer selection visibility issue, however, it is also possible to do so using actions by toggling visibility for all layers before and after the relative layer selection step (alt/opt click the layer visibility eyeball icon):

[ratusr17132632]

Thanks for this useful link of the script !!

[Zesty_wanderlust15A7]

AFAIK, the only real solution is to buy a QUERTY keyboard and get used to it.

I still want to get one for me a.s.a.p.

There are a bunch of shortcuts and behaviors you can't get to with shortcut workarounds, some that are very handy, like for the Clone Tool. I wish I went querty 30 years ago. I did work with querty on early computers (ZX-81, ZX-Spectrum 😉 ) and got used to it fast.