Adobe® Photoshop® CS2 Studio Techniques

Editing Keyboard Shortcuts

Have you ever been annoyed to find that Command-I (Mac) and Ctrl-I (Windows) inverts your image instead of bringing up the Image Size dialog box? Or that you have to press Option-Command-P (Mac) or Alt-Ctrl-P (Windows) to bring up the Print with Preview dialog box when Command-P (Mac) or Ctrl-P (Windows) seems much more logical? Well, you can bypass Adobe's logic and apply your own by editing the keyboard shortcuts you use to access tools and menus in Photoshop.

Start by choosing Keyboard Shortcuts from the Edit menu to access the Keyboard Shortcuts editor (Figure 1.128). This is just another section of the dialog box we used to hide and color code menu commands. You navigate in the same way and simply click on the ...