Mac keyboards are different. Look for the BIG delete key just to the right of the =/+ key.
Should work exactly the same. You must be doing something differently.
EDIT: Is Charles right? Even on my PC I use that key, even though it says Backspace. Never occurred to me to use the little Delete key to the right.
Maybe my Mac roots.
Yeah. I just checked on a PC down the hall- hitting either Backspace or the "little" delete key do the same thing. I’ll bet that is her problem here.
Yeah, never occured to me, either. 😉 Sarcasm aside, tried both delete keys, just like on the PC, (as noted in the first message), and I did not get the same effect. I guess the better question now is…what might cause me not to be able to delete? I’ve never had the problem before…is it something to do with the color mode?
Sarcasm? Hmm…
Color Mode shouldnt matter.
Right Layer targeted?
Layer locked?
Try trashing your preferences?
Sarcasm gets us nowhere. I am a new Mac user and am humble enough to admit that perhaps I don’t know everything about the system. As I am working with a client, I am merely trying to get to the bottom of the problem as quickly as possible.
Have the right layer selected; is not locked. How would I trash my preferences? Another message that I am getting now when I try to delete a selection from a shape is that the contents of the layer are not directly editable.
Is it a Shape Layer? You can’t delete a selection from a Shape on either platform. What you could do is rasterize it and then make a selection and delete or make a Layer Mask on the Shape.
What Ed says.
FYI to delete preferences hold down Shift+Option+Command (Shift+Alt+Ctrl on PC) AS you launch Photoshop. You’ll get a little dialog to delete your preference settings (or something like that)