Adobe’s Photoshop CS4 provides keyboard shortcuts to help improve users’ productivity. And, beginning with Photoshop CS3, Adobe offers the ability to customize those shortcuts. This means that you can create a work environment that more efficiently meets your personal needs, work style and preferences. Whether you think the keyboard shortcuts in Photoshop CS4 are difficult to remember, you want to reassign a default shortcut to another function or your want to delete a shortcut you created, the following instructions will help you to spend more time being creative and less time trying to remember keystrokes.

    Steps to Delete a Photoshop Keyboard Shortcut

  1. Step 1

    Pull down the “Edit” menu and select “Keyboard Shortcuts.”

  2. Step 2

    At the top of the “Keyboard Shortcuts and Menus” dialog box, select the “Keyboard Shortcuts” tab.

  3. Step 3

    If the shortcut you want to delete is part of a customized set, select the set name from the “Set” drop-down menu. Otherwise, continue to the next step.

  4. Step 4

    Select the menu type where the shortcut is located: “Application Menus,” “Panel Menus” or “Tools.”

  5. Step 5

    Scroll down and select the shortcut you want to delete. Then, click the “Delete Shortcut” button. Note that if you were working with the default set of keyboard shortcuts that came with the program, the set name automatically changes to “Photoshop Defaults (Modified).”

  6. Step 6

    Click the “Save Set” icon. (This is the small icon that looks like a floppy disk, to the right of the “Set” drop-down menu.) You can give your modified set a new name or, if it was a previously created set, save it under the old name.

  7. Step 7

    Click “OK” to save your changes and exit the “Keyboard Shortcuts and Menus” dialog box.

    Tips & Warnings
    • When saving a keyboard shortcuts set, make sure that the file is saved in the “Keyboard Shortcuts” folder inside the Adobe Photoshop CS4 “Presets” folder.


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