Comments on: Adobe Photoshop hand tool

By: Claire O'

Claire O' — Wed, 19 May 2010 17:52:11 +0000

Laughed when I read this, and then laughed again when the hand tool disappeared after bashing the space bar!! Can’t believe it!

By: Ken the tech

Ken the tech — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 03:00:30 +0000

This was bothering me a few minutes ago but I happily solved: go to Edit, Preferences and click on Reset all Warnings Dialog. I don’t think is keyboard related.

By: brown

brown — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:02:16 +0000

I pushed the “ctrl” button and it solved the problem for me. weird…

By: RoaldA

RoaldA — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:16:11 +0000

Hahaha, that’s funny! xD

By: Drummond

Drummond — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:39:20 +0000

I had never heard anything so stupid, but nothing else worked so I tried banging the space bar. Sure enough, it worked!!! Thanks for the tip.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 15 May 2009 07:15:12 +0000

It really is an annoying problem, I’m glad it helped you Janki.

By: Janki

Janki — Thu, 14 May 2009 13:34:45 +0000

hi,
can you believe, I read your article, and after that i opened photoshop and guess what? everything got fine…:)
thaaaannkkss….

By: thomas

thomas — Sat, 02 May 2009 21:23:23 +0000

Confirmed!!!

Slamming the spacebar works for me.

By: Chris Buckley

Chris Buckley — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:56:38 +0000

Seriously it might be your space bar, I have had similar problems in the past. Just try pressing space a few times if it happens again. Annoying as hell!

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:24:53 +0000

Heh Peter,

I actually thought that too, £40 and a new keyboard later, still the same!

I have now increased my pagefile in Windows and the scratch disk in Photoshop and this seems to have cured the problem…for now…

By: Peter Velichko

Peter Velichko — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:24:38 +0000

Your space is just stuck, try changing your keyboard

By: Nils

Nils — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:32:10 +0000

As far as I know its a memory issue, had the same problem a couple of times. Just bring up the windows task manager and close it again. Works like a reset. No need to close Photoshop.

By: Dom Ioanna

Dom Ioanna — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 23:42:34 +0000

This has happened to me a few times too. As far as I can see its a memory issue. The only way I can resolve this is to close Photoshop and restart. Might try the ’slamming the keyboard’ technique next time though!