Photoshop Shortcuts Unchained

$0+
0 ratings

Every time you move your eyes/pen away from your image, you're breaking your focus to some degree.

If you're already a serial keybinder, you've probably been frustrated by your inability to assign certain Photoshop options/toggles to your keyboard.  This is a simple and flexible 3rd party solution, allowing you to bind some common UI clicks and previously-unbindable blending modes.

This also opens up the keyboard's low hanging fruit by making the "windows" key available.  The default binds in this script are "win+z, win+space, win+c, win+f, win+g, win+s, win+d"  (If you don't want to use the windows key, I've included a guide for assigning ctrl/shift/alt in the file so you can bind however you want.)


---------------------------------------------------------

This Autohotkey file keybinds the following...

1.  Open the color picker.  I came up with this one way back in 2008, and have fallen in love with it.  Sure, there are fancy flashbased picker plugins, but I've found them to be resource hogs that lag my brushes down.  I also prefer this method as it remembers where you last moved the window, allowing it to pop up closer to your mouse in the workspace.

2.  Toggle Auto-select.  Check and uncheck the "autoselect" box with a keybind.  Especially helpful when working in layer-heavy files.

3.  Toggle "Contiguous" for the magic wand tool.  This is useful for quick'n'dirty photobash concepting.  

4.  Enter the Lighter Color/Darker Color Blending Mode (works in all contexts).  These two blending modes are really underrated, and especially great for integrating photo assets and 3D renders.   Adobe didn't provide any way to hotkey them, so I finally buckled down and made this workaround! 

5.  Make clone stamp work with all layers, or just the current layer.  This script goes into the top menu to make the selection, returning your mouse where it started.

---------------------------------------------------------

These simple scripts are annotated with new users in mind, full of tips for making it your own.  Customize your commands in minutes!  




Notes:

  • Autohotkey must be installed for this to work.  Download it free here (Windows only):  Then it's just a matter of clicking the AHK file and you're good to go!
  • This script was designed for Photoshop CS6 on Windows 7, but will work in other PS versions/Windows OS's.  It was also designed for Photoshop's full screen mode.  You may need to change some of the click coordinates if you work in windowed mode with multiple documents.
  • You can read further instructions and annotations in the downloaded AHK file by right clicking it and selecting "edit script" or "open with > Notepad" if Autohotkey isn't installed yet.
  • I am unable to test this on the MacOS.  I've heard that there is a way to run .ahk files on it, but the evidence is scant.


$
I want this!

You'll get one .ahk script file (6 separate actions in 4 categories). It includes instructions and annotations, readable when the file is opened in Notepad. Windows OS only.

Copy product URL
$0+

Photoshop Shortcuts Unchained

0 ratings
I want this!