You have to save them as well – hit the floppy disk icon at top of keyboard shortcuts & menus dialog after you’ve made the changes and save as.
Hi Fred. Yes, I did save them. First I tried saving them as a separate set "My shortcuts" and when that didn’t work I simply tried saving the changes to the "Default" shortcuts. I need to experiment some more tonight. I re-programmed F2 thru F8 and it appears some of the changes took while others are ignored. Most notible is F2 which I re-program to be "crop". When I go back into the shortcuts menu it shows that crop is now F2 but when I hit F2 I still get the default function. I process batches of 500-600 photos and without the shortcuts my workflow will be reduced to a crawl.
– John
CS3 is absolutely filled with strange and unexplained new workflow-disabling "features". I seem to come across a new one at least every other day. Maybe you’ve hit on yet another one.
You might have to assign keys other than the F# keys – though I have Ps on both the laptop and desktop assigned the F10, F11 & F12 keys without a problem – maybe it just affects some of the lower numbered keys.
Most notible is F2 which I re-program to be "crop".
I’m just puzzled why you would want to assign things like "Crop" to a Function Key. Virtually all the tools already have intuitive shortcuts: "C" for Crop; "L" for Lasso; "I" for Eye-dropper; "B" for Brush, etc.
All I can say is it works for me. 🙂 I’ve been using these same shortcuts since Photoshop CS. I normally have the mouse in my right hand and my left hand hovering over the function keys. Without ever looking at the keyboard I can quickly hit F2-F3-F4-F5 to crop, straighten, sharpen, etc. It goes very very quickly and allows me to edit hundreds of photos in a very short period of time.
My shortcuts are things I use on nearly every photo and probably don’t equate to existing shortcuts
F2 – Crop
F3 – Shadow recovery
F4 – Smart Sharpen
F5 – Straighten (Arbitrary rotation)
F6 – Exposure
F7 – Photo Filter
I have edited several HUNDRED THOUSAND photos using this workflow so it is now second nature. 🙂
Yup. I can see the logic.
In some ways, wouldn’t it be good if someone made a programable mini keypad with, say, 20 or so keys which we could customize to our own particular way of working.
Especially if they could not be overridden, or "stolen", by other applications – which is quite possibly what has happened in your case.
This keeps getting better.
I see that the CS3 Production Premium suite loaded Photoshop CS3 Extended. On my laptop I have plain ‘ole Photoshop CS3 and the keyboard shortcuts work just fine.
I have tried everything. With "Extended" no matter what I try to assign as shortcut gets ignored. I even tried assigning "Shift-F2" and while it allows me to accept and save it, it ignores it.
Two steps forward and one step back. ;-(
If I set Crop to ALT-F2 it works. Unfortunately there are conflicts which prevent using ALT for all the F-keys. So what’s the deal with CS3 Extended?
I sure don’t need the "Extended" portion of CS3. I hope I don’t have to throw away the Production suite and load a stand-alone copy of CS3.
are there maybe multiple versions of photoshop on the disk?
* ** Problem solved ***
I finally broke down and called Adobe support and during the course of my conversation I stumbled upon the problem.
By default, in my Actions pallet I had a group called "Commands". This commands group contained some pre-defined functions for F2 thru F12. By removing this group from my Actions pallet VIOLA… all my keyboard shortcuts now work perfectly.
I have no idea what the "Commands" group does as I’ve never used it. But… everything is working fine now. Wheew! 🙂
I have no idea what the "Commands" group does…
For the sake of closure… 🙂
As you know:
* Not all PS commands/functions have keyboard shortcuts. * Some default shortcuts require multiple hands/fingers, so the convenience is lost.
Before CS came along to associate a keyboard shortcut with such a task one had to: * Record an action that executed the task
* Assign a keyboard shortcut to inoke the action
The "Commands" action set was provided by Adobe to demonstrate the concept. A keyboard shortcut is assigned to each action in this set.
If action set "Commands" is present in the Actions Palette at startup, then the keyboard shortcuts associated with its actions cannot be assigned by or modified via Edit > Keyboard shortcuts.
Deleting action set "Commands" from the Actions Palette, shutting down and starting Photoshop frees up the shortcuts previously assigned to the actions.
Hi Danny. Thank you for the excellent explaination. Good info.