If you’ve been using Photoshop for a while, you will probably be very familiar with the keyboard shortcut Cmd + Z / Ctrl + Z to Undo the last thing you did. If you pressed the same keyboard shortcut again, it would REDO the action.
To undo continuously and step back repeatedly you would have pressed Cmd/Ctrl+Alt+Z.
But now, my friends, that has changed in Photoshop CC2019 and there has been a switch around.
Now Cmd/Ctrl Z makes a continuous Undo and Cmd/Ctrl + Alt + Z is a single Undo and Redo.
Why did Adobe make this change to the Undo keyboard shortcut?
Well it has been done to provide consistency between Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator which have had Cmd/Ctrl + Z as continuous Undo.
If you’re finding this new shortcut a pain, then you can change it back to the way it was by choosing Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts and change them. You’ll see an option there to ‘Use Legacy Undo Shortcuts’.
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