Here we’ve decided to assign CMD+F (F meaning “Flip” was my thinking) to the Image>Transform>Rotate 180º command. Now, check out the Image>Transform>Scale menu item: there’s our keystroke shortcut! I chose to temporarily change CMD+E into my Scale shortcut because the E key is right next to W on the keyboard, and CMD+W to close the current image was the step right before going into the destination image and scaling the copied pixels. There’s a ton of pre-assigned keystroke commands in Photoshop CS4 and odds are there’s a bunch of commands you’ll rarely use, but others may use every day.
Originally, this was assigned to Layers>Merge Layers, and I’m going to switch it back to that once I’m done with this project. Here I assigned CMD+E to Edit>Transform>Scale. From here, you can assign or reassign keystrokes for just about anything and everything in Adobe Photoshop CS4–including your customized plug-ins such as Nik Sharpener or Silver Efex Pro. But imagine having to go through the dropdown menu more than 100 times in a recursive workflow!Įdit>Keyboard Shortcuts (or CMD+Option+Shift+K) will launch the Keyboard Shortcuts window. Now, if you are only doing this once in a blue moon, there’s no real need for a keyboard shortcut. Take a look at this first screenshot: There’s an active marquee selection on the image, and we want to scale this up or down. But the great thing is, you can add your own keyboard shortcuts for just about every menu-driven operation (and editing tools, too!) available, including any third-party filters you may have installed. For example, a project I am currently working on required over 120 copy>paste>position and scale operations.Īlmost every computer user knows CMD+C followed by CMD+V will copy and paste the selection, but the default set of CS4’s keyboard shortcuts don’t have one for Edit>Transform>Scale. But there are many a project where it is necessary to individually “touch” and manually perform the same operation repeatedly, when it just isn’t possible to automate or script it and pop out for a coffee while Bridge, Photoshop, or Lightroom chugs away.Īnd in these cases, the ability to quickly create a keyboard shortcut in Adobe Photoshop CS4 can be a serious time and motion-saver. Don’t get me wrong: Actions and workflow automations are amazing timesesavers.
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