rectangle tool doesn’t work

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May 21, 2006
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When I try to make a rectangle, the cursor is a plus sign with a little x in a circle next to it. It doesn’t acutally make a rectangle, it just makes a box with a black line. How do I get my rectangle tool back ?

Closing and restarting the program doesn’t seem to help. Is there anyway to reset the program so its back to the original default settings ?

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Dave
May 21, 2006
On Sun, 21 May 2006 04:38:36 GMT, meltedown
wrote:

When I try to make a rectangle, the cursor is a plus sign with a little x in a circle next to it. It doesn’t acutally make a rectangle, it just makes a box with a black line. How do I get my rectangle tool back ?
Closing and restarting the program doesn’t seem to help. Is there anyway to reset the program so its back to the original default settings ?

Shift/Ctrl/Alt while starting PS
and
‘yes’ to deleting the Adobe Photoshop Settings.

Dave
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groups2
May 21, 2006
Dave wrote:
On Sun, 21 May 2006 04:38:36 GMT, meltedown
wrote:

When I try to make a rectangle, the cursor is a plus sign with a little x in a circle next to it. It doesn’t acutally make a rectangle, it just makes a box with a black line. How do I get my rectangle tool back ?
Closing and restarting the program doesn’t seem to help. Is there anyway to reset the program so its back to the original default settings ?

Shift/Ctrl/Alt while starting PS
and
‘yes’ to deleting the Adobe Photoshop Settings.

Dave
When I click on photoshop.exe while holding Shift/Ctrl/Alt it opens up the windows property box for photoshop.exe. No sign of Adobe PhotoShop Settings.
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Dave
May 21, 2006
On Sun, 21 May 2006 14:53:59 GMT, meltedown
wrote:

Dave wrote:
On Sun, 21 May 2006 04:38:36 GMT, meltedown
wrote:

When I try to make a rectangle, the cursor is a plus sign with a little x in a circle next to it. It doesn’t acutally make a rectangle, it just makes a box with a black line. How do I get my rectangle tool back ?
Closing and restarting the program doesn’t seem to help. Is there anyway to reset the program so its back to the original default settings ?

Shift/Ctrl/Alt while starting PS
and
‘yes’ to deleting the Adobe Photoshop Settings.

Dave
When I click on photoshop.exe while holding Shift/Ctrl/Alt it opens up the windows property box for photoshop.exe. No sign of Adobe PhotoShop Settings.

Yep, you’re right, but that is because you ‘click on the icon while holding the 3 keys down. FIRST click on the PS icon and immediately (afterwards) hold the 3 keys down. (Right after opening the program – be quick:-)

Dave
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groups2
May 22, 2006
Dave wrote:
On Sun, 21 May 2006 14:53:59 GMT, meltedown
wrote:

When I click on photoshop.exe while holding Shift/Ctrl/Alt it opens up the windows property box for photoshop.exe. No sign of Adobe PhotoShop Settings.

Yep, you’re right, but that is because you ‘click on the icon while holding the 3 keys down. FIRST click on the PS icon and immediately (afterwards) hold the 3 keys down. (Right after opening the program – be quick:-)

Dave
OK I finally, after 2 months, got my rectangles back. I don’t do very much graphics, but I actually lost work because of that. This had been bugging me off and on for years and that’s about the fourth time I asked for help. It was making masks, I guess, but I still don’t understand what makes it do that. At least now I know how to get it to stop. Thanks.

I had tried it right after opening the program but I guess I wasn’t quick enough.
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Dave
May 22, 2006
On Mon, 22 May 2006 00:06:25 GMT, meltedown
wrote:

Dave wrote:
On Sun, 21 May 2006 14:53:59 GMT, meltedown
wrote:

When I click on photoshop.exe while holding Shift/Ctrl/Alt it opens up the windows property box for photoshop.exe. No sign of Adobe PhotoShop Settings.

Yep, you’re right, but that is because you ‘click on the icon while holding the 3 keys down. FIRST click on the PS icon and immediately (afterwards) hold the 3 keys down. (Right after opening the program – be quick:-)

Dave
OK I finally, after 2 months, got my rectangles back. I don’t do very much graphics, but I actually lost work because of that. This had been bugging me off and on for years and that’s about the fourth time I asked for help. It was making masks, I guess, but I still don’t understand what makes it do that. At least now I know how to get it to stop. Thanks.
I had tried it right after opening the program but I guess I wasn’t quick enough.

Glad I could help; and now you know how to get back to the default settings.

Tip.
One of the 1st things I do after setting it back to default, is Edit/Preferences/General
and remove the tick from ‘Export Clipboard’. That of course is to save ram by cleaning the clipboard every time
the program is closed, and is quite important, specially if working on large files.

Happy editing.

Dave
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KatWoman
May 22, 2006
snip
OK I finally, after 2 months, got my rectangles back. I don’t do very much graphics, but I actually lost work because of that. This had been bugging me off and on for years and that’s about the fourth time I asked for help. It was making masks, I guess, but I still don’t understand what makes it do that. At least now I know how to get it to stop. Thanks.
I had tried it right after opening the program but I guess I wasn’t quick enough.
snip

It was making masks, I guess, but I still don’t understand
what makes it do that

seems a rather drastic method to use reset of all preferences when you just want to change one tool back to it’s default

when you select the shape tool (or other tools) LOOK UP at the bar across the top, there are 3 options on drawing all shapes
as filled (it will fill with whatever color you select in the toolbar) or as shape layers
or as paths

also make sure to look at all the little arrows that drop down for more and useful options on shapes such as constrained, draw from center, specific sizes etc.
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Dave
May 22, 2006
On Mon, 22 May 2006 14:52:00 -0400, "KatWoman"
seems a rather drastic method to use reset of all preferences when you just want to change one tool back to it’s default

His question was:
Is there anyway
to reset the program so its back to the original default settings ?

That is what I answered him on.
He also said that he do not many graphics
which makes it doubtfull the he would have had
any preferences set.

Dave

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