How to turn off 'Fit layer(s) to screen' shortcut

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March 26, 2020
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When I Alt-click a layer, it has a shortcut called 'Fit layer(s) to screen'. It zooms my document. (It's in this list: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/default-keyboard-shortcuts.html)
I want to turn off this shortcut. How do I turn off this shortcut?
I can't find it anywhere in the Edit<Keyboard Shortcuts menu.

Problem or error

Zesty_wanderlust15A7

Known Participant

What if it was active on the layer icon only? (what I used to think)

That seems a reasonable compromise as neither Adobe or we want too much options either.

davescm

Community Expert

'a lot of people are bothered by it'

I've moved this to ideas so that people can upvote it. That is what can get developers to take notice. So far it has three votes including mine.

Dave

Zesty_wanderlust15A7

Known Participant

I've added an hour ago that I agree it should become an option 😉 and I gave a sympathy vote.

And I've learned more about the (real) pen.

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DV23

Participating Frequently

Listen, I do this for almost 20 years. This was never an issue until a few years ago. You can give reasons all you want but a lot of people are bothered by it. It is not just a handful of people. Great that you don't experience this issue, we do. You can disable or edit a lot of keyboard shortcuts. Why not let us disable or edit this.

davescm

Community Expert

Thread moved to 'ideas'

Dave

Zesty_wanderlust15A7

Known Participant

It's probably a behavior/feature, not a shortcut.

Almost never bothered me, except when I fail to hit the mask a few times a year. It's actually fairly cool and I forget to use it.

Why would you Alt-click next to the mask icon? (if you don't want this)

I only use Alt-click on the mask.

Maybe the mask is "easy to miss" if you use an 8K monitor and have layers displayed at their smallest?

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DV23

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The point is that it is easy to do by accident. Especially when using a wacom pen. It happens when you want to alt/option click on a mask of when you want to alt/option click between layers for a clipping mask. Especially with the latter, just a few pixels off and Photoshop starts zooming in or out. Using Photoshop every day all day long and I can tell you, 'annoying' and 'frustrating' are words that stopped describing it years ago.

davescm

Community Expert

"That is why I always use a mouse for precise paths with Photoshop's pen tool."

That's confusing. You use both at the same time?

Just yesterday I heard Sef McCullough claim that since he is using the Wacom 1 (this seems to be a monitor tablet), laying down paths has become up to 3 times more precise (granted, it was in an interview by Wacom).

@Zesty_wanderlust15A7 'That is why I always use a mouse for precise paths with Photoshop's pen tool'

Yes, a mouse to move and control Photoshop's pen tool i.e. the one in Photoshop's toolbar that creates paths 🙂 I find the mouse far more precise for that as it does not move on clicking.

I would not be without the Wacom though for other work and I support the idea of having the ability to turn off the aforementioned shortcut when using it.

Dave