I have PS 7 .. and am trying the CS2 tryout. Normally, I can use the move button and move an object and then nudge it just where I want it with the arrow keys. That doesn't appear to work in CS2 .. drag and drop only? Geez ... I surely hope not.
How does one get the arrow keys to respond with the move function?
thanks,
Nancy
#1
I'm having the same problem. Is there a way to turn this feature back on?
#2
I can't see anything in preferences. I have to keep going back to PS 7 to get my work done. :(
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I'm having the same problem. Is there a way to turn this feature back on?
#3
Nancy & Ron,
No problems seen here, using the PS CS2 tryout...which for all intents and purposes is the retail version with 30-day timeout. It seems a stupid question, but are you by any chance trying to nudge the background layer? I've tripped up a time or few before and done that.
Darl
#4
Nope .. I double checked. I can go back to PS 7 with the same file and it works fine. Return to CS2 and nothing will work with arrow keys.
Nancy
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Nancy & Ron,
No problems seen here, using the PS CS2 tryout...which for all intents and
purposes is the retail version with 30-day timeout. It seems a stupid question, but are you by any chance trying to nudge the background layer? I've tripped up a time or few before and done that.
Darl
#5
Check the keyboard driver (that's all I can think of).
#6
Nudging won't work if the Move Tool is not selected but you imply that it is. Could it be that you unintentionally shifted to another tool with a keystroke?
#7
I had trouble with both keyboard (Old Microsoft Natural) and a Logitech Marble mouse...downloaded new drivers and things worked fine
#8
there's a thought .. although PS7 works just fine. Maybe CS2 has a driver requirement not found in PS7. thanks!
Nancy
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I had trouble with both keyboard (Old Microsoft Natural) and a Logitech
Marble mouse...downloaded new drivers and things worked fine
#9
What about if you temporarily press your CTRL key...can you nudge then?
#10
is your num-lock on? :)
#11
Same deal.. I have a layer selected of a picture that I'm trying to reposition - not the background. I have the Move tool selected, but when I press the arrow keys on the keyboard (not the number pad keys) nothing happens. It's worked for me before in PS6, but now in CS2, no such luck. This is crazy.
#12
nudging is working here. note you must have some selection on the layer! (I know you said that ron, just reitterating.)
#13
selected as in crtl-a (select all) or made a selection with one of the marquee tools ON the image? able to see the 'marching ants' of a selection?
#14
Yes.. the image is selected with the rectangular marquee tool on layer 1 (not the background layer)
#15
pretty weird ron. covering all the bases... are you on a laptop? do you maybe need to hold the Fn key while using the arrow keys? have you tried with both sets of arrow keys? is num lock on?
dave
#16
Yeah, very weird. I'm on an HP desktop system. There are a set of 4 cursor keys aside from the number keys on the keyboard. The cursor keys don't do anything at all. The number keys (with the num-lock on) will change the brightness of the image. With num-lock off, they do nothing. The cursor keys work in other applications, so it's not a keyboard issue.
#17
have you tried updating the keyboard drivers anyway?
#18
Did that earlier today.. just in case.. no change.
#19
Does your computer have any keyboard utilities installed (for example, to take advantage of the multimedia keys, browser or email buttons, sleep button, etc. on some keyboards)?
#20
yeah.. it does have buttons that control sound.. different than the cursor keys though - and nudging as worked in previous versions of PS that I've had. has something changed in the new version?
#21
has something changed in the new version?
it's always possible something's changed. try loading up default MS keyboard drivers and see if the keys start working. if they do, you need to write to the keyboard manufacturer about updating their drivers.
#22
Disable the keyboard utility that handles the buttons from task manager and see if the keyboard arrow keys work in PS.
#23
You must have a selection in order to move with the cursor keys.
Not if the Move tool is active, unless CS2 has changed this.
#24
Up until the day before yesterday, I had been using native microsoft keyboard drivers because this is a relatively new install of xp. Yesterday I installed the HP keyboard drivers just to see if that would work. Both had the same result.
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