Why does PS disable the use of all tools sometimes?

GH
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Gregory_Holt
Dec 21, 2003
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Hi,

I have PS CS and sometimes all the tools will seem to be disabled. I can select them (eraser, move, select, brush, etc.) but I can’t /use/ them. Other things (resize, levels, menu selections, etc.) work, but not the stinkin’ tools. If I exit PS completely and reenter, everything’s fine again. Very annoying…

Greg
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Vernon_Stevens
Dec 21, 2003
It "disables" tools while you are in the middle of using others sometimes. Does it happen when you are using some tool that has a dialouge up, like a blur filter?
GH
Gregory_Holt
Dec 21, 2003
Well, I am pretty sure that whenever it does it I /was/ just using a dialog-based item, color-balance this last time it happened. But I dismissed that dialog. I had thought of what you’ve said and minimized everything, but could find nothing that was "modal". And other modal dialogs would pop up fine. For instance, I could rerun color-balance or levels just fine.

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