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?
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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
May 2, 2005
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.
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?
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.
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?
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.
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)?
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?
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.
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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