Given up on Keyboard Shortcuts in PHotoshop or should I not or..?

[larry45]

I have a long list of PS keyboard shortcuts I 've used over the years. But I found I don't use them lately!  I tediously navigate with my mouse for everything now..   It seems with PS is now updating so often, and there is this laboriuos process of tranferring over your shortcuts, and I've found they get mangled and lost eventually.

Has PS made this better yet?  Maybe they carry over now automatically or?  Just asking. Thanks!

[Anshul_Saini]

Hi @larry45,

Great question! When updating from Photoshop 2024 to 2025, you’ll now see a prompt in the Creative Cloud Desktop app to “Import Previous Settings and Preferences.” If you keep that option checked, it will automatically carry over your shortcuts, workspace, preferences, and other custom settings, so you won’t have to go through the hassle of reapplying them each time.

Go to the Creative Cloud desktop app > Preferences > Apps to do this.

This should make keeping your setup consistent with each update much easier. Let me know if you have any other questions!

Best,

Anshul Saini

[larry45]

Anshut, thanks, I gave up few years, I'm not even sure where my keyboard shorcuts are anymore!  Where are they?  I spent lot of time on them, but alaways broken messed ...

Think they get a prefrence to just carry them over without even doing that?   So annoying. I'm from era of the manuel CD upgrade, so never even had to anything. zero, they just get there. All gone now.. was too much stomach, and unstable, and choatic.

[Rob_Cullen]

Edit and Delete keyboard shortcuts from the Photoshop [Edit] menu-

[Sulaco]

If you setup your keyboard shortcuts using "Edit/Keyboard Shortcuts" and then "Create a new set" (the marked button in the attached image). This set will be carried over to the new version when you update Photoshop, if you do as Anshul_Saini suggests when updating. The problem is that once you start your updated version of Photoshop, it often (randomly it would seem) reverts back to the Default set. So you will often have to go into "Edit/Keyboard Shortcuts" and reselect your set. It's a bit of a pain, but once you know how to fix it, it's managable.

The set file can also be backedup manually, if you want.