I’ve been annoyed for the last few years that the Photoshop Creative Suite versions never played nicely with the system shortcut cmd+space. That shortcut in Photoshop is a zoom tool that I use, hold the keys down, click and drag to zoom to the selected area. Convenient. However, by default, that same shortcut cmd+space in OS X will open up the spotlight menu drop down. Annoying.
It’s even more annoying to me because I’ve assigned that shortcut to Quicksilver, which pops a dialog window in the middle of the screen. I could still work, it’s just having that window popping in and out all the time was a little distracting. Especially if it pops up right where I was about to click.
I finally figured out a workaround that doesn’t involve me changing keyboard shortcuts or disabling them completely. Simply switch the order you hit the keys. Instead of cmd+space, use space+cmd. You get the same result in Photoshop as if you used cmd+space, since the zoom tool is a function of the hand tool (brought up by holding the spacebar).
I can’t believe it took me years to get annoyed enough to figure it out.
