<homer>I guess i’m alone, eh?</homer>
<bart>You said it not me, H man!</bart>
Hi dave, time for me to help out a bit.
I had the same problem. I had to pick a new brush (one click) and then double click it. Very annoying.
The fix for me was to simply have the brushes palette open all the time. Now it works as it always has.
Trash your prefs, add more memory and update your video drivers!
(Just joking Dave – haven’t had that particular problem – yet.) π
Dave,
I posted this earlier, but there’s a ‘stutter’ on using the bracket keys for brush size as well. Haven’t figured out the exact sequence (if there is any) because most of the time they work, then on ocassion they won’t. I hit the dropdown to resize and they’re back working.
I find if i’m very slow and deliberate it kinda sometimes works. right click open. breathe. click new brush once. breath. double click that brush. and if i’m lucky, it’ll close the dialog. if not double click again. it’s a little frustrating and it’s definately slowing me down.
Re: slow, deliberate.
You may be onto something. I’m thinking when this happens with me, it is when, after chosing the brush tool, then going to ‘mode’ in the options bar, the brush size shortcut is ‘disabled’, so you have to hit brush tool again, then resize. So it is just after I hit the brush tool and resize, rather than brushing, brushing, then changing the size. I’ll try the ‘take a breath’ approach.
Ommmmm…
It’s a bug. We’re looking into it.
cool! do i get a t-shirt or a hat?!! π
<chris>(oh, no! not milbut starting that again!<g>)</chris>
glad to hear you guys are on it and thanks for the confirmation that i’m not (really!) nuts.
dave
CS2 – re Stuttering – a similar and annoying issue around Zooming – I’d got used holding ctrl + spacebar and right clicking to switch from zoomed view back to fit-to-screen. Now this stutters and I often can’t catch it. The problem seems to go away if I alt+shift to zoom-out and then got back to ctrl-shift. Anyone else had the same problem? I hope it gets fixed as it’s a time waster.
Chris
"a similar and annoying issue around Zooming"
Chris… I’ve found that, in PS9, it’s fine if you hold Spacebar first, then Ctrl. Unlike in PS8 (where the sequence mattered not), it seems the other way round now results in what you’ve described. In fact on my machine the Rt-Clk dialogue doesn’t appear at all if I go Ctrl first…
Which is odd, cos I’m one of those finding the Display in every other way horribly slow…!
Glenn
Well, well… you live and learn – but sometimes wish you didn’t have to!
Glenn – many thanks.
Chris
Dave,
ΒGlad to hear you guys are on it and thanks for the confirmation that I’m not (really!) nuts.Β While Chris has confirmed a problem, that actually does not say that you are sane. I think further tests still may be a good idea. <g>
"Well, well… you live and learn – but sometimes wish you didn’t have to! "
Chris… Yes, I so agree; but, on the other hand, coming upon such idiosynchracies also makes me (who knows nothing at all of coding) aware again of quite how much detail and subtlety must be involved here in the devising of something I, for one, too often take too easily for granted…?
Glenn
Yeh! How about a special edition tee shirt for Dave?
With some witty wittiness?
Photoshop Bug Exorciser
or maybe
Am Adobe Exorcist?
aware again of quite how much detail and subtlety must be involved here in the devising of something I, for one, too often take too easily for granted…?
they had a lot of ground to cover, i suspect, with the implimentation of internal cursor handling.
Yes, the cursor handling changed quite a bit in CS2. To get the AddOver blend mode, we had to do most of the cursor handling ourselves.
and gawd bless you for it chris! that’s one of the coolest things in cs2!
Cool. While this thread is open, I figured I’d add a related bug. First off, I only use the RMB popup brush window to select brushes. There’s three ways to select a brush that I know of:
1) DOUBLE CLICK on a brush (which is only working 25% of the time right now.
2) CLICK on a brush, and then click outside the window to close the window.
3) When you originally pressed RIGHT CLICK to open up the window, if you continue to hold it down, it will select the brush the cursor is hovering over and close the window.
I personally love method 3 the most because it’s the quickest and simplest, but have never really been able to use it because of this bug:
The bug comes in if there was *ANY* movement of the mouse/pen when you originally RIGHT CLICKED. If the pen wasn’t moving at all, the RIGHT CLICK will open the window, select the brush and close it all in one when you release, **BUT** if the pen was moving a little bit when the RIGHT CLICK was originally made, it will open up the brush window, but not select a brush or close the window when you let go, so that cool technique doesn’t work.
Unfortunately, my hand is never staying still so method 3 has never been usable… π
Does that make sense?
Ok. I take what I just said back. The bug isn’t about whether or not the mouse was moving when the right click was made. It’s something else, adn I can’t tell what it is… I did a bunch of tests this morning and it seemed like that was the problem but I did more tests, and it’s not doing it… Poo… oh well…. I’ll keep trying to figure it out…. π
