How to disable keyboard shortcut option [ ], which cycles layers.

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July 5, 2023
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Hello,

Does anyone know to disable keyboard shortcut option [ ], which cycles layers? I've looked through the keyboard shorcut menus and I can't find it.

The problem is when I'm airbrushing with my Wacom tablet and I'm sampling colors with the option key on my tablet and also using the touch ring to change brush size, I sometime inadvertently will try to adjust my brush size while pressing the option key, which is the same as pressing option + [ or ], which is the command to cycle through the layers. What happens is I end up airbrushing on the wrong layer. Super annoying!

Thanks in advance!

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Jeff Arola

Community Expert

Sorry spoke to soon.

The suggestion i posted doesn't work.

That must be one of those Keyboard Shortcuts that is hardwired into Photoshop and has no provision to change it.

Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

I'm having to think about this one, and I had to remember to select Essentials before checking because shortcuts save with workspaces.

Move layer up and down can be edited

But there is nothing in the Layers menu for 'selecting' layers, and IME a function usually needs to be there in the menu to be edited. So I really think you are right. It's hard wired.

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Tyrone243Author

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You shouldn't need to delete any layers, if I am understanding you correctly. Even without knowing your workflow for certain sure, it sounds like a good time to save out to different file names. We routinely reccommend that anyway, for major projects, because of posts from people whose systems have crashed midway through saving the only version of their project, and leaving the file unusable. I can actually remember a thread where the OP knew his laptop battery was almost dead, but thought he could 'just' get finished and saved before it died. He was wrong, and he lost the project.

Yes I do save frequently and for larger projects I will save versions, but when I've spent 10 minutes airbrushing skin on the wrong layer, and not knowing I'm on the wrong layer, that layer is trash and I have delete it, redo that work for the layer I have to delete plus finish the airbrushing on the proper layer and hope that I don't inadvertently change layers again. 😖

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