Photoshop is messing up. Help please

[eric-holmes]

For some reason, no matter what tool I click, only the hand appears. I can't do anything because all it will let me use is the pan tool. I shut the computer down and restarted it and it went back to normal for a short bit and then it locked to the pan tool again. Any ideas? It's like it's on the fritz. Now it is back to working normal. But once I get into editing it will "lock" to the pan tool.

 

[DRoberts]

If you still have the program disc try uninstall and reinstall.

 

[Bitter Jeweler]

Are you leaning on the spacebar?

 

[thebeatles]

This happens to me every once in a while. It is not a permanent problem. I heard it has to do with memory issues. I usually clean my comp up a bit and restart to fix this problem.

 

[burstintoflame81]

CS4 has a glitch that occasionally surfaces for me. Sometimes I will not be able to change any colors other than like gray and white. Usually if you get a glitch you can reset all the defaults by pressing CTRL-ALT-SHIFT when opening photoshop. It will ask you if you want to delete the settings ( or something like that ) Click yes. All of your preferences will need to be reset because they will all revert to the default, but this usually fixes and glitches for me.

 

[KmH]

Check your caps lock too.

Close Photoshop.

Edit: Like burstintoflame81 said......

Double-click the Photoshop icon to start it again after it has had time to close.

Immediate hold down the Ctrl+Alt+Shift keys to reset it to all the default parameters.

You should be good to go.

 

[eric-holmes]

Are you leaning on the spacebar?

Lol no, but when I press the spacebar the flitch goes away. Thanks for everyones quick help.