

Ctrl + delete fills a layer with the current background color. A professional Photoshop user prefers shortcut keys more than the navigation menu. Using the shortcut keys is a smart way to work and saves lots of time and effort. If I remove the P shortcut for it, it will no longer be part of the Shift cycling. Alt/Option + delete fills a layer with the current foreground color. Photoshop supports several shortcut keys almost for all functions and tasks. By default the Freeform Pen Tool has the P shortcut so it shows up when cycling through the Pen Tool group with the Shift key. So, for example, I never use the Freeform Pen Tool. If you remove one of the shortcuts from a tool, that tool will no longer be cycled to with the Shift shortcut.

Note this also allows you to control the Shift cycling. (You could change them all to C but then you lose the Crop Tool group shortcuts) So, if you set the Convert Anchor Tool shortcut to P to match the other Pen tools, then you can cycle to the Convert Anchor Tool by using Shift+ P. The Shift cycling only works if the shortcut is set the same as the other tool shortcuts in that particular tool group. Rather than inserting a new shortcut, merely add the existing Pen Tool shortcut for the other pen tools. It doesn't go any further into that group (at least here).īut, you can change that. The problem with the Pen tool group is seemingly, by default, Shift will only toggle/cycle between the Pen Tool and the Freeform Pen Tool. Then typing Shift+ b selects the next tool in the "brush" tool group - the Pencil tool, typing Shift+ b again selects the next tool - the Color Replacement Tool, etc. Much like Illustrator, using Shift with a tool shortcut in Photoshop cycles through tools in a set.įor example, typing b selects the Brush Tool. The Shift key already plays an important roll in tool shortcuts within Photoshop.

The Shift key won't present the warning above, it'll merely be ignored. I do not believe Photoshop allows users to use modifier keys for Tool shortcuts, any modifier, not merely the Shift key.
