r/photoshop • u/rolfraikou • 3d ago
Help! Has anyone had some random custom keyboard shortcuts not work?
For years I have used , and . as my foreground and background color shortcuts, it has become second nature to me. For some reason, it won't work now. No matter what key I set them to, it will not activate those menus as a keyboard shortcut, which is really devastating to my workflow. Anyone else had anything like this happen? Ever find a work around if you did?
I reset all settings to default to make sure it was nothing else I did, and still, it will not let me assign them with a keyboard shortcut.
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u/johngpt5 60 helper points | Adobe Community Expert 3d ago
When in edit > keyboard shortcuts > tools and you have changed , from previous brush to foreground color picker, and have changed . from next brush to background color picker, are you saving your keyboard shortcuts to a named workspace?
For example, if I make those changes while I'm in the Essentials workspace, the next time that I happen to reset the Essentials workspace, or the next time that Ps updates and we get a new Essentials workspace, those keyboard shortcuts will be gone.
But if I make those changes in my custom workspace, I'm currently on JG-workspace-5, and go to Window > Workspace > New Workspace, I can tick the appropriate boxes, type in JG-workspace-5, overwrite the previous with the new settings. Now, my shortcuts, menus, and panels are all saved and can be restored. I even find my custom workspace in my file system and save it to an external drive.