Photoshop CS5 : Brush Size Hotkeys stop working

Uly

This bug makes me upset.

Every half hour or so, my brush size (square bracket '[') hotkeys stop working, and I have to restart Photoshop in order get them working again. Has anybody else experienced this in CS5, and if you have, how did you fix it?

tharle

have you tried using the alt+rmb shortcut for rescaling your brush size - gives you more control that the brackets anyway.

Uly

tharle: that works, didn`t know about that shortcut. old habits die hard, but im gonna try and switch to that shortcut instead. thanks!

malcolm

If you're in Windows 7 make sure the keyboard hasn't switched to French. I was getting fucking pissed when Photoshop hot keys would stop working, but then realized it was some dumb combination where Photoshop and Win7 use the same hot key that activates French keyboard and thus changes what all the keys do making Photoshop not work. I disabled the ability to switch keyboard layouts in Win7 and that fixed it.

Michael Knubben

What Malcolm said! This used to change my undo shortcut to 'close file', which was always highly irritating. I just go into the language settings of Windows and delete everything but the one that's in use. Seems to work fine.

Bruno Afonseca

Oh thanks, that helped me as well! My keyboard at work switches between portuguese and english and I never found out why.

Pac_187

The combination to switch languages in Windows is: ALT + SHIFT
Kinda annoying if you are working in PS, cause you use that combination a lot

Michael Knubben

it should be said that this has been the case since ages, not just since Win7. I remember this happening to me as far back as Photoshop 5.5 on xp.

Uly

malcolm, i switched my keyboard to america instead of the inferior english/french canadian, and it's all fixed! thanks a lot!