CS3 tools wacky...

All my tools in Photoshop CS3 look and act like they are the eraser. I have reinstalled the program, reset all tools and prefences. Anybody? Helllllpppppp!

Have you quit / restarted Photoshop?
Have you rebooted?
Based on the lack of responses here, it's obviously not a problem a lot of people experience.
If the issue persists across restarts, then you should clear your Photoshop preferences to defaults. You do this by pressing and holding Control - Shift - Alt (or Command - Shift - Option) immediately after cold-starting Photoshop. If you get the keys down in time - and you have to be very quick - it will prompt you to delete your current settings. If it just comes up you haven't gotten the keys down quickly enough.
-Noel

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Sorry to ask something that I should know.
I have 2 the CS3 tools, photoshop & AI and the full production studio of CS2. I haven't used these tools for mnths (nearing a yr) and didn't have a whole lot of experience even when I used them daily.
Cutting to the chase... I want to create a short video and an interactive photo album to go on a settop playable CD-rom.
I don't need help with the video part. But am at something of a loss about the interactive photo album. I've done quite a few animated photo-albums but the only interactive part was with DVD menus.
I'm not really talking about a lot of interactivity. I plan to put the pictures in pages and would like the user to be able to turn the pages.
That is, I'd like the pages static but turnable by user/viewer.
Maybe menus would be one way to do it, but wondering if there is some way to make it a little less clunky. Ahh .. maybe all I'm describing is chapters.. but even then I'm not sure how to do that on a CD-rom as opposed to a dvd...... still any input would be welcome.

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I'm used to the tool behavior in CS3 Photoshop but 5.5 has left me dead in the water. I mainly want to know why I can't use the select tool with shift-select to marquee the area that I want to zoom into. Instead, it does some wild zoom in and out when I move the cursor up or down on the screen. How can I just marquee select the area I want to zoom into? Hopefully this can be fixed by setting preferences or something easy.
Also, another headache that has stopped my workflow: I cannot move an item just pasted into an image and on its own layer, by using the move tool. The move tool has become a hand and moves everything including the unselected layer below as well as the item on the layer above that I wanted to move independently of the layer below. Selecting 'transform' does not allow independent moving either, nor does it allow me to transform or change the size of the newly pasted object.
Please help, as I am seriously needing to go back to CS3 to get any work done. I would like to be able to get these things working in CS5.5 but this is the default behavior that I am faced with now that I've upgraded.
TIA,
Ken

Chris Cox wrote:
You might want to read the release notes, and browse the help file for things that are new and changed in CS5.
In the meantime, go to preferences and turn off the scrubby zoom so you get back to the older style zoom you're used to.
The hand tool is not the move tool. You're using the wrong shortcut.
It might seem simple to those who know their way around, but I need help in every way:
Where are the 'release notes' located?
Once I find those I'm sure it will be a help. Thank You for that Chris.
Browsing the help file is something I never do, I go to the help file for specific things mostly, but how would I word this request for using the 'move tool' I call it the move tool but it is the tool at the top of the tool bar if it is stacked vertically as I use it off to the left side of the screen. That is the tool I used to use to move things and work with the edges in the transform box if one of those is active. That part just seems to be missing entirely. I had to finish this project today and had to go back to CS3 and thank goodness I left it active on my system.
Next subject "Scrubby Zoom" i wonder why that isn't left as an option rather than a default now, which kind of throws it at you from left field for the new user. I call myself a new user as this Photoshop has been rearranged into a new program - until I find out how to set the gizmos back to how I like to work with them. I love Photoshop, but am reminded of the old Chinese saying: "If it ain't broke don't fix it."
Next and last of three subjects: I know the hand tool is not the move tool, but when I select the move tool (top at the left vertical choices of tools in the toolbar again) the cursor is the hand tool and does not change by any use of any modifier keys. Are you saying that there is a 'shortcut' that sets this? How is this 'shortcut' accessed? Is it a keyboard command?
If I can conquer and gain control of these two mystifying behaviors over tools that behaved much differently in CS3, I will be the most happy man on earth.
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On my Mac, I have FLash CS3 open and sometimes I want to have a web browser open as well so I can check info on a website where i have to click to view a link and compare to what's in the Actions panel. BUT when I get away from Flash, all the tool palettes go away! Is there a way to not make things like that disappear?

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While running Photoshop CS3 Extended, if I use Spaces in or out of the Photoshop Space, many of my tools (marquee, brush, gradient, etc.) will "flicker" between the tool's cursor and the Finder's cursor. It isn't just cosmetics, it's functionality too. This bug forces me to restart Photoshop, as it is impossible to get any work done.
I have narrowed it all down to certain circumstances though, and I have a work-around to temporarily prevent the flicker, although that isn't to say I don't mind the annoyance. If, instead of using Spaces in or out of Photoshop, I command-tab to a program in another Space and back again, the cursor will not flicker. However, once the flicker starts, Photoshop must be restarted to correct the problem.
Say I have my Finder windows open in Space 1, my E-Mail in Space 2, and Photoshop in Space 3.
I can command-tab to or from any of those and be unaffected. I can also use Spaces to go from my Finder to my E-Mail, and then command-tab back to Photoshop, and still be unaffected. It's only when I use the Spaces quick-switch keys or Spaces Grid to get to or from Photoshop that my Photoshop cursors flicker.
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Well, that's interesting! Here I thought the problem with my CS1 was just that it was too old, running in Rosetta and all, and would be fixed when I get my Xmas treat of CS3. Wonder if that means when the fix comes from Apple it will also fix the same problem in CS1? Of course, by then I'll probably have CS3.... Thanks for posting this, I would have been mighty annoyed to have plonked down my 200 bucks only to discover that I had the same bugs.
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CS3 Tools Problem

Hi,
I have Photoshop CS3 and I am unable to use the tools (brushes, lasso tool, gradient, etc...).
I have tried restarting and the usual but whenever I select a tool CS3 seems to not do anything in response - the cursor remains as the white hand.
Everything else seems to be working apart from the tool palette.
What could be the problem here?

Try resetting your preferences as described in the FAQ.
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/375776?tstart=0
You either have to physically delete (or rename) the preference files or, if using the Alt, Ctrl, and Shift method, be sure that you get a confirmation dialog.
This resets all settings in Photoshop to factory defaults.
(A complete uninstall/re-install will not affect the preferences and a corrupt file there may be causing the problem.)

Photoshop CS3 tool palette submenus appearing on single click (isntead of click + hold), how can I disable this?

Sometimes I happen to click on tools instead of using the hotkey, if it feels convenient or whatever. However, on my work machine I'm having a problem where a single click opens up the submenu for whatever tool I clicked on. For example, I click on rectangular marquee, and instead of just selecting rectangular marquee as the active tool it also presents me with the little submenu to choose from the alternative marquee tools. In all the years I have worked with Photoshop, this is the first time I have experienced this--usually I have to click+hold to get the submenu. Click+hold is the behavior I want out of this feature, but I can't find any setting in the preferences to enable/disable this weird mode?

The timing is directy related to the 'Double-click Speed' setting for your mouse. If it is 'Slow', then you have to hold longer; if it set to 'Fast' then you always get the pull down menu. There currently is no way to change this behavior directly is Ps (ie. pref. toggle to disable).
I have seen people complaining that they need to double click to just select the main tool. In other words, that might be a workaround if you want to keep the mouse double click speed on the fast side (single click gives pull down, double click selects main tool).
I'll enter a feature request to add a preference that toggles click+hold On/Off.
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CS3: Tools Photoshop Batch does nothing

I select a bunch of found files and go to Tools > Photoshop > Batch. This used to present the Batch dialogue in Photoshop allowing me to run a batch action on the found files. Now it does nothing. Photoshop is running, computer recently restarted.

>Update: Computer's hard drive recently replaced from a freshly formatted image. Still no joy.
Meaning what exactly? I don't understand this way, what is "replaced from a freshly formatted image"
And could you tell more details about OS and software version's
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Indesign CS3 Tool Bar Won't Work

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Best thing is to let the installer put it in the default location, but there are reports where the path isn't recognized because of the spaces or some such.
You can use the DOS name for the folder -- Progra~2 when that happens. There's a KB article -- let me see if I can find it.
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Adobe Publicly Claims Leopard is the Reason for PS CS3 Crop Tool Problems

From the Adobe User to User Forum for Mac PS:
"Adobe and Apple are working closely to provide a fix to a known issue running Adobe Photoshop CS3 and Photoshop CS3 Extended on Mac OS X Leopard (v10.5.1). Currently, when you enter values in numerical fields to set sizes for the brush, crop, marquee, lasso, type, and other Photoshop CS3 tools, those values revert to previously entered values when you try to apply them.
While we have identified workarounds for some of the affected tools, this issue prevents people from working as precisely and intuitively as they expect. Providing a fix to customers is a top priority. Please note the following:
The fix will be provided through an update to Mac OS X Leopard. Consequently, it is not part of the Photoshop CS3 (10.0.1) update.
Apple is collaborating closely with us to get this fix incorporated into a Mac OS X Leopard update. *No public schedule* is available at this time, but both companies understand the urgency of this fix."
This is a huge major problem and would hope that Apple, if indeed it is their problem, will assign all the resources necessary to get a fix far before 08 arrives.
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David DeCristoforo wrote:
Adobe should have had updates waiting on the day 10.5 was released. Not possible? BS! Even a dippy little driver like SteerMouse had a 10.5 version posted to download the day after 10.5 was released.
You are conveniently omitted the various developers, much smaller than Adobe, who did not ship updates the day Leopard was available, claiming that they really needed to test with the final shipping version. I might try to dig up a few of those notices.
Believe it or not, Adobe actually beat several small developers to Universal Binary, even though it took a while for Adobe's huge code bases.
And if it's a Leopard bug, then I want Apple to fix it, rather than forcing the developer to work around it if there's a fix coming anyway. That would be a waste of time.
Also I severely doubt that Adobe had the, as you say, "source code" for Leopard. Does Apple let any other developer have the "source code?" I think the only source code allowed outside the Apple campus are the parts that were already open source to begin with.

DW CS3 and Flash Player 8

Myself and colleagues, using the various CS3 tools, have
recently come across a worrying problem in Dreamweaver CS3. We
create Flash movies and save them out in Flash 8 format, so that
they can be played on machines with Flash Player v8 without the
user being prompted to install Player v9, which is not possible for
our student open access machines as student users don't have admin
rights to install to HD. It's no bother exporting a Flash CS3 movie
as Flash 8. When we come to place the Flash 8 movie into a web page
in DW CS3, though, DW puts in Javascript code that forces a check
for Player v9.
Now, we can klunk our way around this by manually editing the
JS and <object> code in every single page, eg:
quote:
<object
classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
codebase="
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0"
width="700" height="420"
hspace="0" vspace="0"
title="Referencing Websites learning
object">
but this is not a tenable solution in anything but the short
term. Is there a tweak we can make to DW such that, when we embed a
Flash movie in a page, we can either turn off Player version
checking (we do this in the Actionscript so it's redundant to do it
in the HTML/JS) or set it to check for a version earlier than 9?
I've done a Help and Knowledgebase search, and the only
half-relevant doc I can find is the article
on
placing Flash video which refers to
Commands > Remove Flash Video Detection which isn't
available on my copy of DW, at least when a SWF file is embedded
into the page.
Thanks in advance for any helpful suggestions.
Cheers
Fred Riley
Learning Technologist, School of Nursing, University of
Nottingham, UK

> Do you, or
> anyone else, know if there's a way to set DW3 to not
insert this version
> checking behaviour by default?
Just don't click on the checkbox when you insert the Flash.
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>
quote:
Originally posted by:
Doreen L. In the Tag
> (object)
> attributes panel located on the right side of your
workspace, you'll see
> 'codebase' with the prompt to download Flash 9. Just
delete this.
> Thanks
> for the tip, Doreen - useful. When I select a SWF on the
page and look in
> Tag
> Inspector, the codebase attribute reads:
>
quote:
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9
> ,0,28,0
which can be easily deleted. We'd have to do
this for every
> page
> containing a SWF which would be a bit tedious and
time-consuming. Do you,
> or
> anyone else, know if there's a way to set DW3 to not
insert this version
> checking behaviour by default? Fred
>

Do new FLASH CS3 support s AS2 codes ?

Hi folks . . .
When we use AS3 development tools , will old flash codes (
AS1 and AS2 ) work correctly after this ?
And can we use AS2 codes by flash cs3 tools ?
Do ADOBE support AS1 and AS2 codes for a long time ??

Yes. Flash CS3 is pretty much Flash 8 with new features and
support for what
it supported before (AS1 and AS2) and more (now additionally
AS3)
"firatadobeturk" <[email protected]> wrote
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news:f2l4f9$9i3$[email protected]..
> Hi folks . . .
> When we use AS3 development tools , Do old flash codes (
AS1 and AS2 )
> will work correctly after this ?
> For a long time , does ADOBE supports , AS1 and AS2
codes?
>

How to call photoshop new script from bridge tools menu

i just create a 'Image Processor Outter Mode.jsx' script for photoshop and copy to ../photoshop cs3/presets/scripts/ folder. i can see the menu item list in photoshop file->script->.
but can't find it in the bridge cs3 menu. in bridge cs3 tools->photoshop. it only list the default script, image processor for example.
i'm plan to search files in bridge and run all the result files with the new jsx. anybody can help me ?
thanks.

You would need to amend Photoshop-10.jsx on a pc this would be found in the following folder:-
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Startup Scripts CS3\Adobe Photoshop

Photoshop: values for type, brush, crop, lasso etc tools broken on Leopard

I posted this in answer to another thread, but decided that it may be helpful to some Photoshop users if it had its own topic:
The following is a technote copied from Adobe's forums, regarding the performance of several menus for key tool settings in Photoshop CS3 running in Leopard:
*Changing values for type, brush, crop, lasso etc tools broken on Leopard*
*Kirsten Harris - 08:58pm Nov 15, 2007 Pacific*
Adobe and Apple are working closely to provide a fix to a known issue running Adobe Photoshop CS3 and Photoshop CS3 Extended on Mac OS X Leopard (v10.5.1). Currently, when you enter values in numerical fields to set sizes for the brush, crop, marquee, lasso, type, and other Photoshop CS3 tools, those values revert to previously entered values when you try to apply them.
# While we have identified workarounds for some of the affected tools, this issue prevents people from working as precisely and intuitively as they expect. Providing a fix to customers is a top priority. Please note the following: The fix will be provided through an update to Mac OS X Leopard. Consequently, it is not part of the Photoshop CS3 (10.0.1) update.
# Apple is collaborating closely with us to get this fix incorporated into a Mac OS X Leopard update. No public schedule is available at this time, but both companies understand the urgency of this fix.
# As soon as the appropriate update to Mac OS X Leopard is available, we will immediately alert our Photoshop users.
Affected Photoshop CS3 tools: Art History tool, Blur tool, Brush tool, Burn tool, Color Replacement tool, Clone tools (all), Crop tool, Dodge tool, Eraser tools (all), Gradient tool, Healing tools (all), History tool, Lasso tools (all), Line tool, Magic Wand tool, Marquee tools (all), Paint Bucket tool, Pencil tool, Polygon tool, Quick Selection tool, Red Eye tool, Rounded Rectangle tool, Sharpen tool, Smudge tool, Sponge tool, Slice tool, Type tool
Workaround for tools with sliders: Instead of typing in a number, use the sliders to change the value.
Workaround for tools with pop-up menus: Enter a value for the size but don’t press Return/Enter to apply the value. Instead, choose it from the top of the Size pop-up menu to commit it.
Workaround for tools which do not have sliders or pop-up menus: For certain tools, such as the Line tool, you may want to set up presets that you can load to set common sizes. Alternatively, you can restart Photoshop CS3 to clear the problem. You will then be able to enter values again. However, the issue typically re-surfaces quickly.
If additional details come to light, our tech doc Values in numerical fields in Photoshop CS3 revert to the previous value in Mac OS X v10.5.1 (Leopard) will be updated.

Well, that's interesting! Here I thought the problem with my CS1 was just that it was too old, running in Rosetta and all, and would be fixed when I get my Xmas treat of CS3. Wonder if that means when the fix comes from Apple it will also fix the same problem in CS1? Of course, by then I'll probably have CS3.... Thanks for posting this, I would have been mighty annoyed to have plonked down my 200 bucks only to discover that I had the same bugs.
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