Photoshop CS1 shift key issue.

[RichRSi]

Anyone come across this problem?

Basically since lending my missus the mac whenever I free transform and hold shift to fix the aspect ratio (or rotate in increments), shift does nothing. If I hold shift while I draw a line (to fix on a parallel) it doesn't work either, but it will for text??! infact pretty much very few shift 'modify' type commands seem to work for most of the tools in the palette. All I can say is it's always worked before.

I dont think this is a 'short key' command I've been through that to check, I think it is just a feature which doesn't seem to work now! Is some script broken in the program which allows shift to be used as a universal modify tool key (like alt has it's own modify)?

If so, How can I get the shift key to be recognized in photoshop again.

Thanks.

 

[planetx]

it might be worth going into preferences and resetting all warning dialogs
and then reapplying the relevant ones needed???

just found this for you...it might help??

It is similar to a mac in that if you hit a mac shift key 5 times in quick succession it goes into "sticky" mode

http://ask-leo.com/help_my_shift_key_is_stuck.html

 

[planetx]

or try this
http://www.learnwebdesignonline.com/tutorials-photoshop/reset-preferences.htm

^^^^^^^THIS MIGHT DO THE TRICK

 

[Chris n nic]

I might be way off fella.....but some copies of photoshop do this if the crack isn't used correctly...I had one that was fine...lent it to a friend and he cocked it up and his shortcut keys wouldn't work

Chris

 

[RichRSi]

Thanks for the replies.

Sorted now. It seemed a restart of the machine was what was needed. We had the power trip out today while she had Photoshop opening and this forced the computer to suddenly shut down, it probably didnt like it and needed a while to sort itself out.

It's daft how much I missed the shift toggle when it was gone.