Photoshop Elements Mac 2024 Ctrl Key

Question

I'm following a tutorial on YouTube that shows how to manipulate text on a curve. This was a cool feature in older Adobe products (Illustrator especially), where text could be "popped" from outside a curve to inside a curve etc. The tutorial says this "popping" happens when you triple-click the text, then hold down the Ctrl key and drag. On my new Mac with Sonoma 14.4, holding down the Ctrl key activates a menu, as if I was holding down the right mouse button.

Is there a way in Photoshop Elements or in Mac OS Sonoma to get the Ctrl key to do its "Photoshop function" and not its "Mac OS function"?

And, note to Adobe: change the keystroke to Command-Option or some combination that doesn't bring up a Mac OS function by default.

Jeff Arola · Accepted Answer

Use the Cmd key and drag the text inside or outside a path.

The majority of stuff in Photoshop/Photoshop Elements that uses the Ctrl key on Windows is done with the Cmd key on a Mac.

The activating of the menu when using the Ctrl key is a Mac operating system shortcut going back to when Apple shipped Macs with only a one button mouse.

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