Photoshop Layer, Brush, Fill Shortcut

Frankie

I feel a bit silly for not knowing this but how does photoshop decide if your shortcuts are going to effect layers or brushes?

sprunghunt

not entirely sure what your question is. What shared functions do you think are going to cross over?

but here's some handy shortcuts.

new layer is: Ctrl-Shift-N
fill with foreground: alt-backspace
fill dialog: shift-backspace
brush tool: b

Frankie

Sorry I should have been clearer, I want to use shortcuts like shif-alt-m/c/n to set layers to mutiply/colour/normal mode as well as just 1 to 0 for setting values, at the moment its virtually usless for me because randomly it will work on the layer or the brush

Bal

If you have a brush active, it should always do it for the brush, if you want it to be done on the layer instead, what I do is switch to selection mode quickly (v), then back to the brush.

Frankie

Hmm yeah, but there must be something else to it as I can't control the brush deciding to change opacity or fill values with the number keys?