1 Reply Latest reply: Jun 3, 2011 12:27 PM by Noel Carboni RSS

    Issue with CS5 shortcuts

    starfishey Community Member

      I am running Photoshop CS5 on my Vostro 230 desktop and have had a lot of issues with my shortcuts not popping up menus and switching tools.

       

      The ones I have had the most problems with is switching the brush tool (B), gradient tool/fillbucket toggling (G), brush menu (F5) and opening history (F9). The brush and gradients won't switch unless I click on the canvas which usually means I have to undo then go on to what I was doing. The brush menu and history just won't come out at all unless I do it manually.

       

      Is this a bug that is fixable? I switched over from CS3 and never had this issue and it is really interrupting my workflow.

       

      Any input is appreciated. Thanks!

        • 1. Re: Issue with CS5 shortcuts
          Noel Carboni Community Member

          When you get a condition where it's not accepting a keystroke, check something:

           

          Look carefully to see if some of the letters in the menus in the Photoshop main window have been given underlines.  If so, this may indicate that you've invoked the menu key introducer (Alt key), and Photoshop is waiting for a menu key.

           

          There is some subtle difference in the way Photoshop handles the Alt key combination with CS5 vs. earlier versions, and because of the way some folks press the keys on their keyboard they end up invoking it (which is easy to do:  Just hit the Alt key once and you're there).

           

          There have been some workarounds where folks have created software/scripts that translate keystrokes to lessen the problem.  There was a thread on this forum active for a good part of last year which provided some download links...

           

          http://forums.adobe.com/thread/670988?displayFullThread=true

           

          -Noel