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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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I wouldn't make any estimates of engineering time without some basis. I don't make any expertise claims, because they invariably sound pompous and this is an anonymous forum and nobody can prove anything, so why bother? But since you brought it up twice: Yes, I have 20 years of professional programming experience in customer-facing, image-processing and editing software (among several other kinds) on Windows, Mac, and Unix.

Even that doesn't mean I know Adobe's code base (which, in a product as old as Photoshop, is almost surely a mess). My conclusion of the ease of "paste as new image" is based on the fact that Photoshop already prepares an image of correct size based on the clipboard contents when you say "New image." If you hit Return at that dialog, you get a new image containing the clipboard contents. And that's what should happen with "paste as new image." The necessary code is already there; you can see it in action.

As I mentioned, this is not some quirky feature that caters to a minority. It's a standard feature in other graphics-editing and even audio-editing applications.

If they're not going to do it, then they're not. But the portrayal of every request as somehow absurd doesn't hold water.

»I wouldn't make any estimates of engineering time without some basis.«

Good to read that you are not so inclined; but I sometimes suspect others in these Fora are more liberal in passing their unqualified judgement, so you hopefully forgive my inquiry.

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