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How do you load keyboard shortcuts? [2011]

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August 10, 2011
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Hi all.

I don't get it: The keyboard-shortcuts dialog has a way to save sets of shortcuts, but no way to load them. What is the point then?

Thanks for any insight.

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Correct answer ivanb6489798

I just found if you double click the .kys file it will open in Photoshop and it will automatically set the shortcuts you saved in that file. I hope this help you.

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Tarek34249480bsnp

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thats was helpfull thanks .

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Mobius StripAuthor

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You're welcome.

PBDsgn

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I ran into this problem when PS updated and wiped out my custom keybinds. I googled it and found this thread- but ironically no real "solution". So I started messing around with it.

I discovered that if you simply open the custom .kys file you create when you export the shortcuts, it installs them.

Not well documented and bizarre, but that's Adobe for you *shrug*.

Loïc_Bramoullé

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I actually realized I have slight PTSD from the number of times I lost all my PS workspace at one epoch I was not yet implementing a fierce "backup everything to dropbox every time you change a shortcut or anything". I learned Substance painter yesterday and my hands started to shake for the whole evening when I realized all the hotkeys I just customized, where gonna be destroyed the next time I need to reinstal, as they are stored in the registry, and editing keys there is not something specially healthy. Adobe damages your health basically. why though.. there's no reason.. it's just.. a file... to put there on the side.. and.. back .. IN.... There's years of your professional life in this file, it's what allows you to use the software, and pay for it to do your job.. it's very moronic to say "no artists don't need to backup their prefs we have user data.." No one on earth managed to keep the same photoshop install since 1997 without updating or resinstalling or updating your machine...... restoring preferences is obviously essential.

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Mobius StripAuthor

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B-b-but do you have USER DATA to support that glaringly obvious use case?

No? Then Chris Cox is gonna school you with his vast knowledge of how every user does everything... or at least on why Adobe's going to do nothing: because tutorial-doing grandmas with numerous custom keyboard maps licked this problem years ago.

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Katarzyna5EC4

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I love that I am reading this in 2020 and it's still not fixed 😄
It's funny how people can jump to defend almost anythng, including a giant corporation with honestly almost monopoly on the graphics market when someone makes a very valid complain about a nonsensical user experience which breaks all the rules established by not only adobe itself but also kind of the rest of the world doing softwere ever: the rule that if you can save a thing, you usually can load a thing and the two icons tend to be close by. Adobe markets as a professional product that is also user friendly. That is absolutely not a user friendly solution we are talking about here. End of topic 😄 Come on, people.

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Mobius StripAuthor

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Four years later, and Adobe is still demonstrating the fraudulence of its software-rental scam.

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Mobius StripAuthor

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EIGHT YEARS later, and still not fixed.

So much for the lie that Adobe's software-rental program was to going give them the budget to fix bugs.

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ivanb6489798Correct answer

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I just found if you double click the .kys file it will open in Photoshop and it will automatically set the shortcuts you saved in that file. I hope this help you.

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Mobius StripAuthor

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Thanks! Most users wouldn't do that, but I guess for now it's the most convenient workaround for Adobe's petulant refusal to fix this.

janelle_f

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For a reference to Adobe Photoshop's keyboard shortcuts, take a look at the new Photoshop CS6 Quick Reference Guide. It is in its beta form, but it is a great way to find shortcuts, as well as find a menu location that might have changed from CS5. We are looking for your feedback, which you can contribute on the site as well.

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distriller

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Well, all that arguing was a waste of time for an average reader here. Anyway, I for one am certainly bemused as to why there is no load button in the keyboard shortcut dialog. This is the workaround for this problem (written for Windows):

0) The folder for the default new keys is at C:\Users\USER\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS5\Presets\Keyboard Shortcuts\ (or similar)

1) In your new Photoshop (Edit -> Keyboard Shortcuts) save a dummy set, say NewKeys.kys

2) You can stay in the dialog, don't press OK

3) Get your good old GoodOldKeys.kys and copy that over NewKeys.kys (in explorer)

4) In the dialog select the Photoshop Defaults key and then re-select the NewKeys.kys (this loads the replaced NewKeys.kys)

5) Press OK and voilà!

c.pfaffenbichler

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You could copy them to

~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe Photoshop CS5/Presets/Keyboard Shortcuts/

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Mobius StripAuthor

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Thanks for the info, but... that's the intended method? That's pathetic even for Adobe. Why have the export function if there's no corresponding function to import the resulting file?

c.pfaffenbichler

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Then how do you address the numerous gaps in Adobe functionality, which people in Adobe forums will defend by insisting that you do just that (create workarounds with macros and hotkeys and copy them around)?

For example, Photoshop's baffling lack of a "paste as new image" option. This has to be one of the most common operations in an image-editing application. Actually, that's too limiting; even audio-editing applications typically have a function to paste the clipboard contents to a new file.

Yet year after year, despite customer requests, Adobe fails to add the three lines or so of code to supply this function. Apologists always point out that you can do this with a macro.

But you're claiming that no one wants to do that. So have you also filed requests to have such missing functions added? Have you taken up the debate against the apologists? If not, why not?

And what are the rest of us to do? No matter what you ask for in these forums, no matter how obvious the missing function is, you can count on someone to piss and moan about how everything is perfect just how it is, or that there's already a solution. But now you're condemning that "solution."

But back to the original question: If you hate migrating settings around, what's your workaround? Do you manually re-record every macro and remap every key on every machine you use? And run around revising them all should that become necessary?

Apologists always point out that you can do this with a macro.

I guess I might be considered one of those apologists and I’d like to elaborate on why I may be perceived as taking Adobe’s side sometimes:

I’ve been working with Photoshop a long time now – this does not make me a expert on the programming side of the application but it gives me some experience with »work«.

And I for one find it irritating if (potential) customers approach me or representatives of the company I work for and tell us how easily a task can be performed that they themselves have precious little understanding of; the use of my native tongue’s equivalent of »just« (as in »you just have to …«) seems especially grating and is almost a red-flag.

So when people offer estimates on how easily/quickly a task could be achieved that they have no real understanding of it seems somewhat impolite to me.

Though if this applies to you or if you have the programming-experience to justify your assessment I don’t know.

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