Keyboard shortcuts stop working

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
June 7, 2023
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Photoshop regularly loses some of it's important shortcuts:

° The spacebar to move.
° The Alt key, to alt-click the mask or to Alt-Size during a transform.
° The Control key
° The Shift key

Sometimes PS starts with them not working, a restart fixes that most of the time.
Sometimes PS start with them working and loses it a long the way.

Desktop-Windows

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Schmeezo

Participant

So, I had this problem too.

I found out that if there is a web browser in the background with a text box active it can cause spacebar not to recognize in PS

I just quit my browser and the spacebar came back for me. Hope this helps!

mawiro

Participant

Thanks for your post!! I had just upgraded to PS 26.3.0 and the Command key and the Spacebar stopped working on my keyboard and on my ExpressKey Remote. I quit out of Chrome and they started working again. I then reopened Chrome and now everything seems to be working okay. I don't know how you figured this one out but so glad you did!

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emilioooooooo

Participant

Having the same issues with the spacebar not converting into the hand tool to pan around in both PS (26.2.0) and PS Beta (26.4.0) on a Mac.

Unchecking "Spring Loaded Tool Shortcuts" does not solve this.

With Photoshop closed, Shift+Command+Option (Mac) on your keyboard and then Launch Photoshop the way you normally would, to clear preferences, is not solving this either.

Any other advise? This is beyond frustrating.

Thank you.

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Renee32719375wxxz

Participant

Before I updated Photoshop Beta, I could hold down the space bar and the hand tool would appear so I could click and drag to move around the image when zoomed in. Now the keyboard shortcuts only allow a letter (a-z) to toggle tools. Is there a way to make it so that when I press the space bar I can move the image around?

Kevin Stohlmeyer

Community Expert

Spacebar still works fine for me on Mac OS. Try going to Settings/Tools and uncheck "Spring Loaded Tool Shortcuts"

CShubert

Community Manager

Hi @Erlend31793047qkwy are you talking about Ps release version or Ps beta, this is the beta forum and we want to make sure you are in the correct space.

What version of Ps are you on?

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halatious

Participant

Yes, it was happening in Beta. I think the springload is the core issue. For now I've set the thing to max milisecond and it seems to be working. Thank you

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Estudio29550972lmyd

Participant

the hand tool is not activated by the tab key, and it is not possible to configure the pressure of the brushes