Choosing a personal shortcut is hard

[brucekorb]

I find the plethora of shortcut prefixes (combinations of Shift, Control, Opt and Cmd) too confusing to figure out.

Because I don't want my chosen prefix to conflict with one chosen by Adobe, I wanted to pick one and be reasonably sure it would not get purturbed in an update. Based on searching through the unpurturbed defaults on my new install, I think "Control-Opt" is not in use. It'd be nice to know that Adobe promises to leave that prefix alone.

[D Fosse]

There are so many default shortcuts that no combination is "left alone".

When you make your own, you have to accept that you need to override some default shortcuts, and in any case you will need to reload them with a major version update. A minor dot release won't touch them.

Just find some that you know you don't need, like e.g the shortcuts for direct pixel adjustments, ctrl+M, ctrl+L etc (most use adjustment layers now).

[brucekorb]

Yep. Adobe didn't think that one through. I didn't see any "Control-Opt" shortcuts in my untouched fresh install, so I wanted to "encourage them" to consider leaving them alone. It turns out, "Cmd" is a required component for some shortcuts, so "Control-Opt-Cmd" should just be left alone.

I haven't looked for ways to export and then re-import shortcuts. I'll probably look for that with that next major release announcement. I hope it's possible.

Thanks for the reply, Fosse!