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Help! My hotkeys seem to have siuddenly broken.
The basic function of making a lasso selection and using Shft+Ctrl+C to make a merged copy of the layers in the selection is no longer working. Instead it opens some weird chat / dialogue box that I've never seen or used before.
I can still use this function if I go to the Edit menu and select Copy Merged but the hotkey doesn't work.
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Could you please post screenshots with the pertinent Panels (Toolbar, Layers, Options Bar, …) and the dialog visible?
Is the shortcut assigned correctly under the Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts?
If the dialog is not an actual Photoshop UI element it would seem that the shortcut has been assigned to something else on the OS level.
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Yes, it's assigned correctly in Photoshop's keyboard shortcuts. I've never changed the shortcut there.
This is the dialogue box that pops up.
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Yes, it's assigned correctly in Photoshop's keyboard shortcuts.
But that’s probably not the problem; it would seem that the shortcut has been assigned to something else on the OS level.
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Any idea how to figure out what that might be?
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The keyboard shortcut to stamp layers is not Ctrl+Shift+C, which is also a Microsoft shortcut for a screenshot.
From Adobe Help for Stamp Visible:
You can disable the layers that you do not wish to stamp by turning off their visibility in the Layers panel and then pressing Shift+Opt+Cmd+E (macOS) / Shift+Alt+Ctrl+E (Windows). Also, you can hold Opt (macOS)/ Alt (Windows) as you select Merge Visible from the Layers panel’s menu to merge them into a new layer.
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/layers.html#stamp-layers
Jane
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I'm talking about using "Copy merged", Shft+Ctrl+C.
I've always used this for creating a merged copy of whatever is in a selection. Never had issues with it before.