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CS3 tools wacky...

Jul 11, 2012 2:00 PM

All my tools in Photoshop CS3 look and act like they are the eraser. I have reinstalled the program, reset all tools and prefences. Anybody? Helllllpppppp!

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  • Curt Y
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    1. Curt Y,
    Jul 11, 2012 2:34 PM   in reply to BerryFence
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    This does not make any sense.  When you pick a tool, like a clone tool, it erases? 

     
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  • BerryFence
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    2. BerryFence,
    Jul 11, 2012 6:04 PM   in reply to Curt Y
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    Yes. All the tools except slice! I agree, it makes no sense at all...

     
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  • Noel Carboni
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    3. Noel Carboni,
    Jul 11, 2012 6:28 PM   in reply to BerryFence
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    Have you quit / restarted Photoshop?

     

    Have you rebooted?

     

    Based on the lack of responses here, it's obviously not a problem a lot of people experience.

     

    If the issue persists across restarts, then you should clear your Photoshop preferences to defaults.  You do this by pressing and holding Control - Shift - Alt (or Command - Shift - Option) immediately after cold-starting Photoshop.  If you get the keys down in time - and you have to be very quick - it will prompt you to delete your current settings.  If it just comes up you haven't gotten the keys down quickly enough.

     

    -Noel

     
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  • Noel Carboni
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    4. Noel Carboni,
    Jul 11, 2012 6:29 PM   in reply to BerryFence
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    There's also one other possibility...  Did the problem occur coincident with installation of a new plug-in you didn't have before?  If so, try removing that.

     

    -Noel

     
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  • Bill Hunt
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    5. Bill Hunt,
    Jul 11, 2012 6:33 PM   in reply to Noel Carboni
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    Based on the lack of responses here, it's obviously not a problem a lot of people experience.

     

    I completely agree. In all of my years on the PS forum, I have never read of such.

     

    Since Tool Options have been reset, I would definitely move to PS Preferences, and reset those, as well.

     

    Hunt

     
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  • BerryFence
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    6. BerryFence,
    Jul 11, 2012 7:18 PM   in reply to Bill Hunt
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    Thank you all for your generous suggestions and sharing of experience.

    Turns out that a mouse driver I installed was the problem.How weird is

    that? I wouldn't think that a driver would affect program software so

    profoundly, but there you have it. The suggestion to look at things I

    had added recently steered me in that direction, and the minute I

    deleted it, the problem was fixed. Wahoo!!!

     
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  • BerryFence
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    7. BerryFence,
    Jul 11, 2012 7:19 PM   in reply to Noel Carboni
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    Yes, had tried reboot and also quitting Photoship and restarting. Had

    also cleared all the preferences to defaults. It was a mouse driver. Weird.

     
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  • BerryFence
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    8. BerryFence,
    Jul 11, 2012 7:21 PM   in reply to Noel Carboni
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    This was the suggestion that sent me in the direction of the mouse

    driver that I had just installed. Thank you. Saved my bacon. I was at

    wits end.

     
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  • Noel Carboni
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    9. Noel Carboni,
    Jul 11, 2012 7:22 PM   in reply to BerryFence
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    Glad you found it!  First I've ever heard of a mouse driver screwing up such things, but these ARE computers after all, and we all know "To err is human, to really screw things up takes a computer." 

     

    -Noel

     
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  • Bill Hunt
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    10. Bill Hunt,
    Jul 11, 2012 7:49 PM   in reply to BerryFence
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    Interesting.

     

    Going back a bit now, there WERE some InteliPoint drivers, that did not play nice with many Adobe programs, but most of those issues were things like flickering GUI.

     

    Thanks for reporting on the cause. I assume that either a newer, or a roll-back to an older mouse driver fixed things for you.

     

    To help others, over time, which mouse and driver was causing your particular problems?

     

    Good luck, and thanks for reporting.

     

    Hunt

     
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  • BerryFence
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    11. BerryFence,
    Jul 12, 2012 8:09 AM   in reply to Bill Hunt
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    It was a little driver called MouseWare, and I'm using a Logitech

    Cordless Optical...at one point the cursor was taking off for the top of

    the screen for no apparent reason, hence trying out a new driver..I

    uninstalled it, and the cursor seems to be fine now too, even tho the

    new driver fixed the cursor problem. So random, so frustrating, but when

    all is well, I love my computer! Thanks for all your kind help and

    suggestions.

     
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