Need help with eraser and deleting preferences

Hi everyone, I’m new here and have scoured this forum for the answer to my question with no luck. I first came here to try to figure out why my eraser tool was acting funky. Sometimes it won’t work at all when using adjustment layers, right now it will only erase a light amount of the image. This only happens in adj. layers, I can make a dup layer and the eraser will work normally then. But this is a real PITA for my workflow. The layers are not locked, mode is normal, opacity and flow are set to 100% and the correct layer is selected. Erase to history is not checked.

So after reading here, I am trying to delete my preferences but the dialog box won’t come up when I do the alt-ctrl-shift when starting CS2. I have searched my hard drive for the .psp file under just ".psp", "pref" and many other variations and have looked in all of my Adobe folders for this file with no luck. I do have "Show hidden files checked in my windows tools. I’m stumped. I’m sure the answer is probably obvious but I have no idea what to do now. Can anyone help me? Thanks in advance!

"jolynned" wrote in message

Hi everyone, I’m new here and have scoured this forum for the answer to my question with no luck. I first came here to try to figure out why my eraser tool was acting funky. Sometimes it won’t work at all when using adjustment layers, right now it will only erase a light amount of the image. This only happens in adj. layers, I can make a dup layer and the eraser will work normally then. But this is a real PITA for my workflow. The layers are not locked, mode is normal, opacity and flow are set to 100% and the correct layer is selected. Erase to history is not checked.

So after reading here, I am trying to delete my preferences but the dialog box won’t come up when I do the alt-ctrl-shift when starting CS2. I have searched my hard drive for the .psp file under just ".psp", "pref" and many other variations and have looked in all of my Adobe folders for this file with no luck. I do have "Show hidden files checked in my windows tools. I’m stumped. I’m sure the answer is probably obvious but I have no idea what to do now. Can anyone help me? Thanks in advance!

Why are you erasing in adjustment layers? The layer loads with a mask which you can use to show/hide the amount of adjustment to the under lying layer, no need to lose pixels by erasing. This is the whole object of an adjustment layer, they are non destructive.
To delete your prefs file is a timing thing, try holding the three keys down, then start PS, still with the keys held down and release when you get the dialogue box.

MH

"jolynned" wrote in message

Hi everyone, I’m new here and have scoured this forum for the answer to my question with no luck. I first came here to try to figure out why my eraser tool was acting funky. Sometimes it won’t work at all when using adjustment layers, right now it will only erase a light amount of the image. This only happens in adj. layers, I can make a dup layer and the eraser will work normally then. But this is a real PITA for my workflow. The layers are not locked, mode is normal, opacity and flow are set to 100% and the correct layer is selected. Erase to history is not checked.

So after reading here, I am trying to delete my preferences but the dialog box won’t come up when I do the alt-ctrl-shift when starting CS2. I have searched my hard drive for the .psp file under just ".psp", "pref" and many other variations and have looked in all of my Adobe folders for this file with no luck. I do have "Show hidden files checked in my windows tools. I’m stumped. I’m sure the answer is probably obvious but I have no idea what to do now. Can anyone help me? Thanks in advance!

Why are you erasing in adjustment layers? The layer loads with a mask which you can use to show/hide the amount of adjustment to the under lying layer, no need to lose pixels by erasing. This is the whole object of an adjustment layer, they are non destructive.
To delete your prefs file is a timing thing, try holding the three keys down, then start PS, still with the keys held down and release when you get the dialogue box.

MH

Thanks so much for your help, Mike! You’re right, I should be using layer masks but I haven’t made the time to figure them out yet. I will start working on that this week, thanks for the tip. 🙂

And thank you, thank you for the suggestion to hold down the keys BEFORE opening photoshop. That did the trick and now my eraser is back to normal – woohoo! Thanks again for your help, I really appreciate it. 🙂

Mike Hyndman wrote:

"jolynned" wrote in message

Hi everyone, I’m new here and have scoured this forum for the answer to my question with no luck. I first came here to try to figure out why my eraser tool was acting funky. Sometimes it won’t work at all when using adjustment layers, right now it will only erase a light amount of the image. This only happens in adj. layers, I can make a dup layer and the eraser will work normally then. But this is a real PITA for my workflow. The layers are not locked, mode is normal, opacity and flow are set to 100% and the correct layer is selected. Erase to history is not checked.

So after reading here, I am trying to delete my preferences but the dialog box won’t come up when I do the alt-ctrl-shift when starting CS2. I have searched my hard drive for the .psp file under just ".psp", "pref" and many other variations and have looked in all of my Adobe folders for this file with no luck. I do have "Show hidden files checked in my windows tools. I’m stumped. I’m sure the answer is probably obvious but I have no idea what to do now. Can anyone help me? Thanks in advance!

Why are you erasing in adjustment layers? The layer loads with a mask which
you can use to show/hide the amount of adjustment to the under lying layer,
no need to lose pixels by erasing. This is the whole object of an adjustment
layer, they are non destructive.
To delete your prefs file is a timing thing, try holding the three keys down, then start PS, still with the keys held down and release when you get
the dialogue box.

MH

"jolynned" wrote in message

Thanks so much for your help, Mike! You’re right, I should be using layer masks but I haven’t made the time to figure them out yet. I will start working on that this week, thanks for the tip. 🙂

And thank you, thank you for the suggestion to hold down the keys BEFORE opening photoshop. That did the trick and now my eraser is back to normal – woohoo! Thanks again for your help, I really appreciate it. 🙂

Jodi,

You are most welcome, glad to have helped
Layer masks, see http://www.pixel2life.com/search/4/layer%20masks/1/ for 5 pages of tutorials.

Regards

Mike H

Mike Hyndman wrote:

"jolynned" wrote in message

Hi everyone, I’m new here and have scoured this forum for the answer to my question with no luck. I first came here to try to figure out why my eraser tool was acting funky. Sometimes it won’t work at all when using adjustment layers, right now it will only erase a light amount of the image. This only happens in adj. layers, I can make a dup layer and the eraser will work normally then. But this is a real PITA for my workflow. The layers are not locked, mode is normal, opacity and flow are set to 100% and the correct layer is selected. Erase to history is not checked.

So after reading here, I am trying to delete my preferences but the dialog box won’t come up when I do the alt-ctrl-shift when starting CS2. I have searched my hard drive for the .psp file under just ".psp", "pref" and many other variations and have looked in all of my Adobe folders for this file with no luck. I do have "Show hidden files checked in my windows tools. I’m stumped. I’m sure the answer is probably obvious but I have no idea what to do now. Can anyone help me? Thanks in advance!

Why are you erasing in adjustment layers? The layer loads with a mask which
you can use to show/hide the amount of adjustment to the under lying layer,
no need to lose pixels by erasing. This is the whole object of an adjustment
layer, they are non destructive.
To delete your prefs file is a timing thing, try holding the three keys down, then start PS, still with the keys held down and release when you get
the dialogue box.

MH

Mike, thanks for the link – I’ve been looking for a good tut. 🙂

Mike Hyndman wrote:

"jolynned" wrote in message

Thanks so much for your help, Mike! You’re right, I should be using layer masks but I haven’t made the time to figure them out yet. I will start working on that this week, thanks for the tip. 🙂

And thank you, thank you for the suggestion to hold down the keys BEFORE opening photoshop. That did the trick and now my eraser is back to normal – woohoo! Thanks again for your help, I really appreciate it. 🙂

Jodi,

You are most welcome, glad to have helped
Layer masks, see http://www.pixel2life.com/search/4/layer%20masks/1/ for 5
pages of tutorials.

Regards

Mike H

Mike Hyndman wrote:

"jolynned" wrote in message

Hi everyone, I’m new here and have scoured this forum for the answer to
my question with no luck. I first came here to try to figure out why my
eraser tool was acting funky. Sometimes it won’t work at all when using
adjustment layers, right now it will only erase a light amount of the
image. This only happens in adj. layers, I can make a dup layer and the
eraser will work normally then. But this is a real PITA for my workflow. The layers are not locked, mode is normal, opacity and flow
are set to 100% and the correct layer is selected. Erase to history is
not checked.

So after reading here, I am trying to delete my preferences but the dialog box won’t come up when I do the alt-ctrl-shift when starting CS2. I have searched my hard drive for the .psp file under just ".psp",
"pref" and many other variations and have looked in all of my Adobe folders for this file with no luck. I do have "Show hidden files checked in my windows tools. I’m stumped. I’m sure the answer is probably obvious but I have no idea what to do now. Can anyone help me?
Thanks in advance!

Why are you erasing in adjustment layers? The layer loads with a mask which
you can use to show/hide the amount of adjustment to the under lying layer,
no need to lose pixels by erasing. This is the whole object of an adjustment
layer, they are non destructive.
To delete your prefs file is a timing thing, try holding the three keys
down, then start PS, still with the keys held down and release when you
get
the dialogue box.

MH