3 Replies Latest reply: Feb 22, 2011 12:46 PM by Noel Carboni RSS

    Shortcut issue

    ThereAreNone Community Member

      I just installed CS5 on a brand-new Win7 box. Working in Photoshop, when I hit the delete button to clear the content from a selection, the Fill window pops up. I know that CTRL + Delete is a shortcut for the fill window, so I decided to see what happens when I use that shortcut... It clears the content of the slection.

       

      So my shortcuts are backwards and I have NO idea how it got that way, or how to fix it.

       

      I have been working in CS5 on Win7 at work for the last 7 months and have not encountered this before... it's definitely something specific to this computer's setup, but I'm clueless as to where to begin looking.

       

      Any ideas? Has anyone else encountered this?

        • 1. Re: Shortcut issue
          Mylenium CommunityMVP

          You have enabled some accessibility option or global keyboard remapping on the system level. This is most certainly coming from outside. I also seem to remember that sometimes this happens with tablets when it can't properly detect whether the drawing tip is used or the eraser end...

           

          Mylenium

          • 2. Re: Shortcut issue
            MTSTUNER Community Member

            In cs5, the results when using those shortcuts, depends on whether

            the layer is a locked background layer or a regular layer (unlocked).

             

            Are you seeing this on both kinds of layers?

             

            For example if you have a layer named Layer 1 and make a selection and

            hit the delete key, does the fill dialog still appear or does the selection clear?

             

             

             

             

            MTSTUNER

            • 3. Re: Shortcut issue
              Noel Carboni Community Member

              +1 to MTSTUNER's comments.

               

              I suspect the marketing people just didn't want to hide the bold new Content Aware Fill feature deep in a menu or key sequence needing a modifier key, and so they demanded that it show up as an option when people delete things on the Background.  Their only mistake was not making that configurable for people who think things should just blaze through when using unmodified keystrokes.

               

              Alas, but it is something that one can get used to.

               

              -Noel