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@biggiesmalls Affinity Photo 1.5.x had load/save shortcuts also. Does Affinity Photo 2 specifically include a Photoshop preset, or a shortcut file with the Photoshop layout that you can load in manually?

I went through and made a shortcut preset file for Affinity Designer, attempting to map its functions to my best-guess equivalents for Illustrator. I didn't really spend all that much time on it, and I am very new to Affinity Designer. So frankly, I'm not sure it's the best, or going to help much. I think there are a non-trivial number of differences between the apps, such that a mapping between them creates a Frankenstein-ian problem: the set of shortcuts is neither Illustrator, nor Designer. It's a hybrid. You're likely transitioning between Adobe and Affinity for good, so it might make more sense to just learn the way Affinity does it. But here are some of the wins as I see it – items that activate more closely to key functions in Illustrator (as of CC 2021): File Package Place Export Document Setup Edit Duplicate Illustrator uses CMD-J for "join paths" and CMD-D for "transform again." Affinity Designer contains its "Transform Again" feature as a subordinate function of Duplicate. And some other apps use CMD-D for duplicate. So it seemed to make the most sense to me for this shortcut to map this to CMD-D in Affinity. It's less of a hurdle for me since I use duplicate and Transform again a lot, and they are related functions. TextV Show Paragraph (panel) Layer Create / Release Compound Beware: compound paths behave a differently in Affinity than Illustrator. You can achieve the same thing, but there is an extra step to get Illustrator's default behavior. Make a compound, and then select "subtract" in Affinity's layer palette for the item you just compounded. Note: I have only tested this for very basic compound paths. YMMV Lock / Unlock All Hide / Show All Convert to Outlines Select Deselect View Actual Size "Panels" Brushes Color Layers Stroke Symbol Transform Full Screen Mode Tools Artboard Tool Does not respond to Shift-O like Illustrator. It is just bound to "O" and toggles with the Contour tool Ellipse Tool Point Transform Toggles with the Node Tool using the "A" key Crop tool This is not a standard tool in Illustrator or a conventional reassignment in Affinity; but I seem to be bringing a lot of pixel images onto my canvas and want to crop them. So I made this respond to the "C" tool, and disassociated the corner tool. Node Tool CMD-J is now Join Paths NOTE 1: Anywhere the Illustrator Equivalent was mapped, the default Affinity Designer shortcut may have been affected or removed. NOTE 2: I may come back and actually write in the shortcut keys here for reference. For now you just have to know Illustrator CC 2021 NOTE 3: The biggest disappointment for me: Hide edges. Can't find an equivalent for it in Affinity. Seems blue outlines are going to render for the path elements of objects any time they are selected. IllustratorShortcuts-FEB2022.affshortcuts

Just for clarity (many years after the fact), this is discussing the Illustrator-equivalent, Affinity Designer. Illustrator uses CMD-SHIFT-A for deselect. CMD-J for join.

Except, I think in Creative Suite, Revert is considered a separate menu command that gets added to the history. And you can undo to a point back before you loaded the original document state. Right? It would be simple enough to leverage the snapshots system for a feature that gets close. Just provide an option to create a snapshot on document open, and discard it if the document isn't changed when it is closed.