fill shortcut (shift F5). any ideas why its not working?

[electricpalmtrees]

as said in the title.

i'm using photoshop 2023 and the fill shortcut isn't working and its slowly starting to become very annoying that i can't use it the more i'm dragging myself up tot he (edit / fill) and doign it manually.

any help please, muchly appreciated

G

[Ged_Traynor]

Hi

What exact version of Photoshop are you using, Shift + F5 is working fine for me on Windows 11, have you tried resetting your Photoshop preferences

https://helpx.adobe.com/ie/photoshop/using/preferences.html

[electricpalmtrees]

Its a brand new Mac Studio / Ventura / 24.0.1

It's done this since day 1

[Kevin Stohlmeyer · Accepted solution]

Hi @electricpalmtrees go to your Actions pane and check for "Commands" set.

The "Grow Selection" action is using Shift+F5. Delete it.

[electricpalmtrees]

interesting your on my wavelength. It's not actually highlighted in the commands as i did check before, it does have most of the other Function keys in there though. How might i be able to check where it's being used in photoshop on a bigger scale (as in the whole shortcut selectinos) ?

I forgot to add. thi si my setup for photoshopping. Mac Studio / Ventura / 24.0.1

[Kevin Stohlmeyer]

You can always go to Edit>Keyboard Shortcuts and make sure you are set to Default.

[electricpalmtrees]

im on default. man i want my old app shortcuts back. they call it progress i think (right)

🙂

[Kevin Stohlmeyer]

If you have them saved somewhere you can always import.

Of after you set this current version up - export them out for safe keeping.

In the meantime check this page for Mac OS specific Fkey solutions.

https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/function-keys-dont-applications-mac.html

[electricpalmtrees]

tbank you i will. end of day here, but i will check and radio in 🙂

[rodolfoa66714120]

the solution for Mac OS worked for me:

Do the following:

1. Choose Apple Menu - System Preferences.
2. Click Keyboard & Mouse.
3. Click the Keyboard tab.
4. Select the option Use All F1, F2, Etc. Keys As Standard Function Keys.
5. Quit System Preferences.

[sbonavida]

Great!!! Actions pane (Menu->Windows->Actions) was to blame. 
I clicked in three lines and delete Shift+F5 for Grow (selection) ???

Thanks very much for your solution.

[andy_wilk]

To all intents I have same set-up, software, etc. My SHIFT+F5 used to work on my new Mac Mini2, but suddenly stopped. Not bee able to fix the problem with SHIFT - it appears that renaming shortcuts no loinger likes SHIFT plus anything - I simply used COMMAND+ replacing the number with smething I never use. Sorry if this is not very succinctly put....
I ended up committing COMMAND+0 to Auto Contentaware Fill after making a Patch Tool selecton. It works, which means I can now work as efficiently as before. 
BUT, why do these things change in unexpected ways!!!!!!!????????

[electricpalmtrees]

solid my friend 🙂 nice outlook to get round it. As a result i have lost my all importantaudio shortcuts doing the fix to get fill to work (but then it decided to not work and instead try some grow thing (a pop up happened) but also i use C4D and disabling audio PLAY, enables timeline PLAY. its a funny odl world isn't it

🙂 thank you for your input:)))))))

[Kevin Stohlmeyer]

Hi Everyone - check your Actions panel for a set called "Commands" and remove it - some of those are overwriting the standard keyboard shortcuts.

[electricpalmtrees]

nice one :)) 

[MarinusPetrusAntonius]

Go to: system settings / keyboard / keyboard shortcuts / function keys / then toggle on "Use F1, F2, etc.

That did the trick for me.

[exhiblue]

This worked for me.  Thank you!

[Emily36801785aqwr]

oh my goodness this is the only thing that worked for me! thanks so much

[Jeff Arola]

Since Photoshop 2019, when loading the Commands actions, users should see a message about the conflict of the keyboard shortcuts.