Critical !!! Keyboard Shortcut System needs Urgent Overhaul

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Sir
Dec 16, 2006
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One of the most important Apps in the world, one of the weakest shortcut systems in existence. Hundreds of great features behind a maze of menu’s and crtl-alt-shifts.

Single-Key custom keyboard shortcuts need to be implemented (As in the excellent InDesign system).

Why is it that we need to press the crtl modifier when defining keyboard shortcuts to utilize the unused numpad keys or any other key?! At least implement Single-Key numpad shortcuts (Illustrator is the same way unfortunately)

Photoshop Actions need the option to be mapped to the Numpad Keys instead of just F2 thru F12, or ideally to any key (including F1, I don’t need ‘Photoshop Help’ to eliminate all the hotkey combinations of F1). Why Limit us when accessing actions are so neccessarry?

I use InDesign as much as photoshop and the keyboard customization is exhaustive. You can define ANYTHING (menu items, tools, scripts, and any function) to use a Single-Keypress in different contexts. This has boosted my productivity immensely. It is hard to fathom why InDesign’s sister products have failed to implement it’s obviously superior system.

With photoshop’s branching menus and features always growing, users need single-press keys to access these great new features customized around the way that we work. I should be able to designate the letter "N" to create a new layer instead of selecting the "Note Tool" which is not in my workflow. Now I know that the hard-coded Crtl-Shift-N may seem to some as easy but I want to make the experience easier. Indesign has the system, why not The Shop?

Final Note:

Computer Interfaces are Visual and Physical, you’ve improved the Visual interface tremendously, please improve the physical interface so that i’m interacting transparently with the program. The keyboard has 102 keys, give them some attention please. I will get Carpal Tunnel Syndrome by making round trips to the menu’s in photoshop because of it’s lack of a refined shortcut system (custom menu’s don’t cut it).

My Numpad is crying out to be touched with 16 Single-Key shortcuts that create Curves adjustment layers, run actions and scripts, initiate filter dialogs, run menu items, etc

One of the most important Apps in the world, one of the weakest shortcut systems in existence. Hundreds of great features behind a maze of menu’s and crtl-alt-shifts.

someone hear my CRY! Others who feel the same way please push this concept up the chain to Chizen’s Ears

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Chris_Cox
Dec 16, 2006
duplicate, please delete this SPAM.

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