how do i remove the hand tool

Stacey L · May 30, 2009

Hi folks, I'm using Photoshop CS3 extended version, and I can't remove the hand tool from my image. Let me clarify: it's not stationary. I can move the hand tool around my image, what I mean is that I cannot select other tools. I click on my brush tool, or clone tool and then move back to my image and it's still showing the hand tool. I've tried rebooting Photoshop, but that's not working. Any ideas?

Thanks,

Don Kondra · May 30, 2009

Hi Stacey,

Have you tried a restart of your computer?

Can't think of anything else to suggest right now...

Cheers, Don

Stacey L · May 30, 2009

I haven't tried restarting my computer, but I did restart Photoshop. Did I hit a key by mistake or something?

Thanks for answering.

Don Kondra wrote:

Hi Stacey,

Have you tried a restart of your computer?

Can't think of anything else to suggest right now...

Cheers, Don

Don Kondra · May 30, 2009

Hard to say what your compfuser is doing, or what you did to it.....

Starting fresh cures a lot of weird behavior.

Just out of curiousity, do you leave it on 24/7, run a virus program and/or do any preventative maintenance?

Cheers, Don

Stacey L · May 30, 2009

I do have an antivirus, but don't know how to do any preventive maintenance on the software itself.

Stacey L wrote:

I haven't tried restarting my computer, but I did restart Photoshop. Did I hit a key by mistake or something?

Thanks for answering.

Don Kondra · May 30, 2009

Let's leave that for now.

Did you restart the computer?

Cheers, Don

Richard · May 31, 2009

This problem has been reported by others. Solutions seem to include: restarting your system; deleting and recreating PS preference file; checking that PS has sufficient memory (and closing other programs if necessary); making sure the space bar isn't stuck; spinning around three times while whistling Yankee Doodle, etc. I have never seen a definitive answer, but if you Google "Photoshop Hand Tool Stuck" you will get lots of things to try.

Let us know what solves the problem for you.

Stacey L · May 31, 2009

Thanks, I will give it a go.

Richard wrote:

This problem has been reported by others. Solutions seem to include: restarting your system; deleting and recreating PS preference file; checking that PS has sufficient memory (and closing other programs if necessary); making sure the space bar isn't stuck; spinning around three times while whistling Yankee Doodle, etc. I have never seen a definitive answer, but if you Google "Photoshop Hand Tool Stuck" you will get lots of things to try.

Let us know what solves the problem for you.

wildviper · May 31, 2009

Stacey,

I have had the same problems every now and then. All I do is just restart the computer. Easy fix.

RogersDA · June 1, 2009

Out of curiosity - were you working on something like Merge to HDR or Photomerge in Photoshop when this happened?

Stacey L · June 1, 2009

Yeah, it's kind of inconvenient when you're in the middle of a project, but I'll remember the restart method.

Thank you,

wildviper wrote:

Stacey,

I have had the same problems every now and then. All I do is just restart the computer. Easy fix.

Stacey L · June 1, 2009

Nope, I wasn't doing anything like that. Just working on a regular jpeg.

RogersDA wrote:

Out of curiosity - were you working on something like Merge to HDR or Photomerge in Photoshop when this happened?

wildviper · June 2, 2009

Stacey L wrote:

Yeah, it's kind of inconvenient when you're in the middle of a project, but I'll remember the restart method.

Thank you,

what I have been able to do is keyboard press CTRL-S (on a PC) and save the file before restarting.

Wil Davis · June 2, 2009

You didn't specify which o/s you're using, but assuming it's Windoze, have you checked the TaskManager to see what's hogging all the CPU time, and whether it's kernel or user? Has it just started showing these symptoms?

- Wil

Richard · June 2, 2009

Wil Davis wrote:

You didn't specify which o/s you're using, but assuming it's Windoze, have you checked the TaskManager to see what's hogging all the CPU time, and whether it's kernel or user? Has it just started showing these symptoms?

- Wil

I didn't see anything in this thread that suggests it's a CPU issue. TaskMan might give a clue, but it takes a hard core geek to interpret it.

Stacey L · June 2, 2009

Hi, it's windows and no I haven't checked the task manager. I don't even know how to do that. It's just started having these symptoms.

Wil Davis wrote:

You didn't specify which o/s you're using, but assuming it's Windoze, have you checked the TaskManager to see what's hogging all the CPU time, and whether it's kernel or user? Has it just started showing these symptoms?

- Wil

Stacey L · June 2, 2009

I think so too. I'm not having a problem running other applications, just PS

Richard wrote:

I didn't see anything in this thread that suggests it's a CPU issue. TaskMan might give a clue, but it takes a hard core geek to interpret it.

Holryn · June 2, 2009

Hi Stacey,

I'm new to DGrin, but I've had this problem before and it took me ages to find out how to resolve it.

Strangely enough all you need to do is press the space bar - this toggles the hand tool and the previous tool.

No idea why but there you go.

Hope it helps.

Paul

Wil Davis · June 2, 2009

Richard wrote:

I didn't see anything in this thread that suggests it's a CPU issue. TaskMan might give a clue, but it takes a hard core geek to interpret it.

You're absolutely right, but I've seen similar symptoms on an overloaded machine where something else grabbing all the time makes whatever you're doing in PS seem to hang, or makes the cursor freeze. In PS7 the hand-tool is activated momentarily by holding the space-bar; I didn't think it toggled, but perhaps it does in later versions.

- Wil

johnadverd · July 6, 2009

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how do i remove the hand tool

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