The H command to hide Photoshop changed

So why the command H to hide Photoshop has been changed?

photoshopdude wrote:

Well that's the control command: now hide Photoshop. Why they add control, it's mind-boggling.

This isn't really what happened. Let's get the story straight.

Since the first (early 1990s) versions of Photoshop on Mac, Command-H is the shortcut to view > Extras (like hiding the selection rectangle). Thousands and thousands of Mac Photoshop users were trained in the use of Command-H for this.

In 2001, Apple released Mac OS X. It came with a standard system shortcut to hide an application: command-H. However, OS X was in conflict with Photoshop, which used Command-H for a very important function for a decade already. Now, if you change a popular keyboard shortcut, people get really upset. (That's why this topic was started.) Which Adobe users should keep happy? Value of the Decade of Mac Photoshop users who are looking for a command + H to be view > Extras, or new OS X users who expect Command-H the standard way Mac applications to hide? Whatever it is, many users Mac Photoshop would be angry.

The way Adobe is out of this impasse was to give you the choice. If you are using a new installation of Photoshop or reset your Photoshop preferences, the first time you press Command-H with Photoshop on a Mac, you'll see a dialog box where you can choose what you want to do Command-H. If you haven't seen this, either you you press return when he appeared and it went away forever, or maybe someone else has already made the choice on the Mac.

But even if your copy of Photoshop is already configured to use command-control-H to hide, you're not stuck. In Photoshop, simply choose Edition > shortcuts keyboard, then find and click in the view > shortcut Options and press command-H for it defined in this way.

That is the real story. If you Command-H to hide Photoshop, it's your choice and you can set at any time.

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