Friday, July 31, 2026

Adobe Premiere Creates Chaos Within Keyboard Shortcuts

  All of a sudden Premiere decides to wreak havoc in Keyboard Shortcuts. It happened after Mac keyboard preferences turned from US English to ES Spanish, unbeknownst to me. Maybe some macOS stupid default shortcut I hit by mistake.

 Manually switched back keyboard to US English, manually switched back Keyboard layout from "es" to "en" within Premiere. Reset to Adobe Premiere Pro Default Preset within Keyboard Shortcuts in PP... And... NADA! Did not work.

 Specifically "+" key did not zoom-in anymore. "\" key did not Zoom to Sequence anymore. Instead they DELETED clips or ranges in the Timeline. What the heck!

 Had to Reset Premiere preferences by holding "Option" and starting Premiere, finally after that Premiere Keyboard Shortcuts went back to default and to working properly.

Reset Premiere preferences on startup if you experience Keyboard Shortcuts mayhem.

Friday, July 3, 2026

Photoshop Darkens The Image When Zooming Between 31% and 15%

  For some reason Photoshop is darkening the entire image when zooming between 31% and 15%. I searched online for a reason, a solution, to no avail. It only points to some "synchronized brushes" or other esoteric settings.

 In fact in my case what causes this behavior is a masked (inverted) Exposure Adjustment Layer that I need to darken a small section of the image.

 If I turn the Adjustment Layer off, the darkening of the entire image does not occur when zooming between these two values.

 Go figure.