

"EDIT: just to be more accurate, I don't want to assign a shortcut to a specific Action, but only one shortcut to the selected Action." I have never look at extension development so I do not know what is possible in extension panels. You can also add the Shift key or Ctrl (Mac. Then select the F key that you would like to use from the Function Key drop down menu. To do so, select your action from the Actions Panel, then double click on the space next to the action name to bring up the Actions Options. Then edit your keyboard shortcuts and add the shortcut Ctrl+O to menu item File scripts script name that plays the action. The only way you can make Crtl+O play an action is to write a script that plays the action using doaction action name action set name. If its an extension Palette It would need to have some shortcut feature. You can assign an F key or Function key keyboard shortcut for any action. You can assign a Fkey shortcut to actions. Inside the same panel, open up Edit, find Transform, and click on Flip Horizontal or Flip Vertical whichever one is more important to you and select the textbox to input your desired shortcut.
If the screen captivate you posted is not the Actions palette that somehow renamed Scripts. To set a Flip Layer shortcut in Photoshop, your first option is to Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts and then select the Application Menus shortcut from the dropdown at the top of the panel. However, I do not know if it can handle a conflict with existing shortcuts. Seeing the Scripts X wrote in Xtools I know a JSX can written that can assign an F key shortcut to an Action. To do so, select your action from the Actions Panel, then double click on the space. If you load an action set like Adobe's Commands There may be a conflict with F key shortcuts. You can assign an F key or Function key keyboard shortcut for any action. You can assign an F key or 'Function key' keyboard shortcut for any action. Action Sets can also be saved with F key shortcuts assigned.

An F shortcut assign to an Action in the Action Palette will override an existing Photoshop shortcut as long as the shortcut is in the Actions Palette. Photoshop has so many shortcuts the one you want to assign may be in use. The Problem is coming up with a shortcut key the is not already in use. To change the keyboard shortcut, double-click the action or choose "Action Options" from the Actions Palette fly-out menu.Actions can be played with a F key shortcut if you want to use some other shortcut key you would need to write a script that does the action and assign a shortcut to the script. The figure below shows the Actions palette in List View. But when going to the actual keyboard shortcuts dialog menu in Photoshop, nowhere is the 'Select next layer down/up' to be found. Now any time you press 'F2,' Photoshop will run the script. To show or hide the Actions palette, use the Window Show Actions command or press F9 on your keyboard. According to Photoshop keyboard shortcuts page, the shortcut for 'Select next layer down/up' is ALT + or ALT + meaning it hasnt even been set up yet since the or defines the user changing it themselves manually. Stop recording, by clicking the 'Stop Playing/Recording" button on the Actions Palette. Choose: File>Scripts>Jeffs_automated_task.js. Go to the 'File' menu and navigate to the the script you want to run. Next, we'll point to the script we want to run when we press 'F2'.Ĭhoose 'Insert Menu Item' from the Actions Palette fly-out menu. Apply actions to multiple images at once using Photoshop’s Batch Process, or Bridge’s Image Processor. Assign Function Keys to actions for faster shortcut access. I named mine 'Jeffs_automated_task.js',the same as the script we'll be calling, and chose 'F2' as my keyboard shortcut. Stop tediously performing the same steps manually throughout your edit. Name the action and choose the keyboard shortcut. Click the new 'Create New Action' button.

If it's not visible, choose from the menu Window>Actions. Often times, you'll want to trigger a script using a keyboard shortcut rather than navigating the File>Scripts menu.įirst, locate the Actions Palette. Triggering a script using a keyboard shortcut
