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Here’s a good one. Passed on for the benefit of those like me who, in spite of some years of experience with Photoshop, might be caught out.
In the middle of a session which had involved resizing and printing scans, I decided to touch up a few dust flecks on one of the pictures. I selected the clone tool and, having Alt-clicked a source area, clicked on the flecks… Nothing! Tried the paintbrush – nothing! Closed and reopened the picture – nothing! Closed and restarted Photoshop – nothing! Deleted the preferences and reset everything – still nothing!
I was about to reinstall Photoshop when it dawned on me: I had been using the mouse; as soon as I tried my newly-acquired Wacom pen everything worked.
In other words, if you’ve set "Brush dynamics" the mouse doesn’t paint at all. This may be documented somewhere but it isn’t obvious, so I thought I’d pass it on – it might save someone some superfluous troubleshooting.
Cheers – John
In the middle of a session which had involved resizing and printing scans, I decided to touch up a few dust flecks on one of the pictures. I selected the clone tool and, having Alt-clicked a source area, clicked on the flecks… Nothing! Tried the paintbrush – nothing! Closed and reopened the picture – nothing! Closed and restarted Photoshop – nothing! Deleted the preferences and reset everything – still nothing!
I was about to reinstall Photoshop when it dawned on me: I had been using the mouse; as soon as I tried my newly-acquired Wacom pen everything worked.
In other words, if you’ve set "Brush dynamics" the mouse doesn’t paint at all. This may be documented somewhere but it isn’t obvious, so I thought I’d pass it on – it might save someone some superfluous troubleshooting.
Cheers – John
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