WHEN PHOTOSHOP LOSES IT’S COOL!

After extended use PS gets confused – such as Quick Mask not working correctly among other things.

Every tool in Photoshop’s Tool Box, allows the user too choose to fully reset just that tool or all it’s tools to their default settings. To do this, look up to the Options Bar. On the far left upper corner you will see
a button which displays an icon of the currently selected tool. This is the
Tool Preset picker. As indicated by the little down-pointing triangle, if you click once on this button a menu will drop down. In the upper right corner of this dropped menu you will see another little triangle, pointing toward the right. By clicking on this button yet another menu will fly out.
By scrolling down the list of commands you will see two entries: Reset Tool
and Reset All Tools. If this dosen’t work, then you’ll
have too GET TOUGH! Try the procedure BELOW ONLY IF THE ABOVE DOSEN’T WORK!

When you click the Photoshop icon on your desktop – Hold down the SHIFT+CTRL+ALT (Windows) . . . Command+Option+Shift (Mac) ALL THREE KEYS just before PS boots. It will ask if you want to Delete the Adobe Photoshop
settings . . . Yes or No, Choose YES!

This procedure cures a good portion of problems with Adobe Photoshop.
Keep in mind that <FILE> <Open Recent> will be empty . . . you’ll have to rember what files you were working on and where you put them! They are not
lost though, so don’t worry it’s just a place marker.

This RE-SETS ALL of Photoshop.

GOOD LUCK! More useful tips later.

After extended use PS gets confused – such as Quick Mask not working correctly among other things.

Every tool in Photoshop’s Tool Box, allows the user too choose to fully reset just that tool or all it’s tools to their default settings. To do this, look up to the Options Bar. On the far left upper corner you will see a button which displays an icon of the currently selected tool. This is the Tool Preset picker. As indicated by the little down-pointing triangle, if you click once on this button a menu will drop down. In the upper right corner of this dropped menu you will see another little triangle, pointing toward the right. By clicking on this button yet another menu will fly out. By scrolling down the list of commands you will see two entries: Reset Tool and Reset All Tools. If this dosen’t work, then you’ll
have too GET TOUGH! Try the procedure BELOW ONLY IF THE ABOVE DOSEN’T WORK!
When you click the Photoshop icon on your desktop – Hold down the SHIFT+CTRL+ALT (Windows) . . . Command+Option+Shift (Mac) ALL THREE KEYS just before PS boots. It will ask if you want to Delete the Adobe Photoshop settings . . . Yes or No, Choose YES!

This procedure cures a good portion of problems with Adobe Photoshop.
Keep in mind that <FILE> <Open Recent> will be empty . . . you’ll have to rember what files you were working on and where you put them! They are not lost though, so don’t worry it’s just a place marker.

This RE-SETS ALL of Photoshop.

GOOD LUCK! More useful tips later.

After extended use PS gets confused – such as Quick Mask not working correctly among other things.

Every tool in Photoshop’s Tool Box, allows the user too choose to fully reset just that tool or all it’s tools to their default settings. To do this, look up to the Options Bar. On the far left upper corner you will see a button which displays an icon of the currently selected tool. This is the Tool Preset picker. As indicated by the little down-pointing triangle, if you click once on this button a menu will drop down. In the upper right corner of this dropped menu you will see another little triangle, pointing toward the right. By clicking on this button yet another menu will fly out. By scrolling down the list of commands you will see two entries: Reset Tool and Reset All Tools. If this dosen’t work, then you’ll
have too GET TOUGH! Try the procedure BELOW ONLY IF THE ABOVE DOSEN’T WORK!
When you click the Photoshop icon on your desktop – Hold down the SHIFT+CTRL+ALT (Windows) . . . Command+Option+Shift (Mac) ALL THREE KEYS just before PS boots. It will ask if you want to Delete the Adobe Photoshop settings . . . Yes or No, Choose YES!

This procedure cures a good portion of problems with Adobe Photoshop.
Keep in mind that <FILE> <Open Recent> will be empty . . . you’ll have to rember what files you were working on and where you put them! They are not lost though, so don’t worry it’s just a place marker.

This RE-SETS ALL of Photoshop.

GOOD LUCK! More useful tips later.