Adobe Photoshop - Start Undoing Properly!

Adobe Photoshop - The program often hailed to be the industry standard for graphics design. Well, while that may be true, some of the functions certainly aren't very standard.

How about Ctrl-Z, the hotkey that we've been so used to using for Undoing? While the feature in Photoshop that is mapped to Ctrl-Z goes under the same name, it only allows one step of undo. Pressing Ctrl-Z the second time redoes instead.

Thankfully, Photoshop does have Undo and Redo as we know them, but they've been renamed to Step Forward and Step Backward:



So, how do we get back the standard Ctrl-Z behaviour? Easy:

1. Go to Edit -> Keyboard Shortcuts
2. In the window that appears, click on the arrow left of the word "Edit":



3. First click on the shortcut assigned to Undo/Redo (which is Ctrl-Z by default). Once the shortcut is highlighted you can change it. I removed the shortcut altogether by pressing Backspace.
4. Click on the shortcut that was already assigned to the Step Forward function, and press Ctrl-Y on your keyboard.
5. Now click on the shortcut that was already assigned to the Step Backward function, and press Ctrl-Z on your keyboard. By now, the screen should look like this:



6. Click "OK", and you're done!