I have to press ESC all the time to work fluently

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March 23, 2022
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Good morning,

Since the 2021 update, my photographer workflow has been hugely impacted by a little tweak in Photoshop's functionment: everytime I do something (setting up curves, using an action, a tool, a shortcut...) ; Photoshop stays "focused" in that textbox.

It might be the layer name, type, the tool, etc.

Before it didn't happen. Now I find myself really annoyed: I must be pressiong the "Esc" / "échap" key 49126 times every day. Of course, having Psd focused on those text boxes prevents it from running shortcuts. How functional.

I wondered if you could patch it, it seems to me that it creates way more trouble than it actually helps.

Thank you,

Martin

Earth Oliver

Legend

Yes, this is a "feature" of Windows and it makes the Ps user experience an absolutely miserable one. I spent the past 3 years begging Adobe to add a preference option to change this, but my attempt ended in failure. I was able to at least get them to change a few Win annoyances, but the sticky selections still remain.
As far as i know, it's always been this way, so i don't know why the behavior changed for you?

T

tennet78

Inspiring

I'm on Windows 11 and I experience this same thing in Photoshop 2022.2.0. It is very annoying when you want to work quick using shortcuts and you always miss to hit 'ESC' when you are stuck in some edit field in an adjustment layer etc.

I work in Photoshop daily since 2000 and it HAS NOT been like this in Windows before. I had to go back to the 2022.2 version because of the many problems with the Wacom Tablet functionality in Photoshop and Windows. I don't need any of the poor AI options in the newer Photoshop releases – I'd rather like Adobe to fix all the basic functionality first.

Photoshop ver.2021 worked perfectly, even with the Wacom tablet, but I can't seem to find this version as a download in the Creative Cloud app anymore. Anyone know ehere to find it??

Martin DedronAuthor

Inspiring

Hereunder you can see that "tons moyens" is selected. I just moved the Magenta, I never clicked on that field !

Now I want to press W to get my selection tool but nope 🙂 I have to press ESC/ échap before. Otherwise nothing happens.

So I end up pressing that key all day long, of course I do adjustments with the layers I create. I don't remember that it was like this two or three years ago.

Yes it's a french version.

Kukurykus

Legend

Now I realised I experience something very similar lately I think I never had problem with. When I use 'search' feature in Layers panel (right below title) which by default is 'Kind' I then have to press ESC to dismiss the focus from that! It was the same in CS6, so probably it has to be like it 😞