Photohop CS6 shortcut not working

[Tracey Jane Bradley]

Hello,

I was wondering if the shortcut CTRL+ALT+2 still works in CS6? Whenever I hold these three keys down at the same time nothing happens. Is it my PS that is playing up? I have used this shortcut several times in CS5!

 

[Tracey Jane Bradley]

Oops, just noticed I spelt Photoshop wrong... Great start for a newbie to this forum!

 

[hawkeye]

Ctrl+alt+2 is a channels panel shortcut for loading the composite channel as a selection.

 

[dv8_fx]

It should work to view the entire RGB or CMYK channel..... provided you've selected any of the other channels beforehand. Try it.... CTRL+ALT+3 .... CTRL+ALT+4 ..... then CTRL+ALT+2

 

[Tracey Jane Bradley]

CTRL+ALT+2, CTRL+ALT+3, or CTRL+ALT+4 doesn't do anything. Whenever I hold down CTRL+ALT a little menu icon appears next to it. I'm so confused. I don't suppose you could tell me how I could perform this task through the menus? I only learnt through the shortcut way.

 

[dv8_fx]

WHOAH.... what was I thinking..... lol.... my bad.

As hawkeye mentioned , CTRL+ALT+2 is a shortcut for loading channel as a selection.

You may have to check the Keyboard shortcuts to see if that is what is loaded for it. ... EDIT>Keyboard Shortcut...

 

[IamSam]

Tracy, try alt + command + 2. Is this what your wanting?

 

[ALB68]

General Statement
Yes, editing your shortcuts can be beneficial too. You can make assignments of keys to your liking. For example, I never liked the shortcut of using [ and ] to change my brush size. So I edited them in the panel to use S and D to S (size is the way I remember it) to make bigger and D to decrease. I forget exactly what they did before, but they were things I rarely used a shortcut for, so I swapped them with the brackets. The S and D are a lot easier for me to put my hand on with my laptop.

 

[IamSam]

According to this website, in CS5......

• Ctrl+Alt+2 It selects tonal range higher than 50% (look at the histogram).
You can easily reverse it with Ctrl+Shift+I