Pen tool and eyedropper pointer circle

My pen tool used to have arrow pointer and now it is just a circle. Same for eyedropper.
I must have clicked on something. How do i reverse this?

Is caps-lock on?
What are your Photoshop > Preferences > Cursors setting?
You can always try restoring preferences (preferably after after making sure all customized presets like Actions, Patterns, Brushes etc. have been saved).
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Pen Tool, add new point keeps previous point selected?

This has bugged me immensely ever since the new versions of inDesign adopted this habit, is there a work-around?
Say I want to make a customly shaped frame around a photo that's imported in the standard rectangle shape and I don't want it to be a circle, rounded rectangle, or polygon that I can simply "convert shape" to. I could try editing the path with the pencil tool but typically that will create 100+ anchor points of vector disaster.
What I used to do in CS2, CS3, CS4 is grab the handy pen tool, add a point and move it where I want with the direct selection tool by simply holding CMD (ctrl).
But now, (not sure if it started in CS5, CS5.5, or CS6) when I add a new point it keeps the previous points selected. Rubbish, now I can't move the new point where I want it without moving the previous however many I created. And there's no simple 1-click method of only selecting the point I just made (that I know of). Re-clicking with the direct selection tool does nothing and clicking other selected points does not deselect them.
So in order to move the point I just made, by itself, I have to deselect all points then reselect the point I want to move, which is really tricky if it's under other objects.
Does anyone know how to have ONLY the new point selected when I add a point? Or even have no points selected so I can easily CMD+click the ones I want to move?

It looks like what is needed is some way to deselect all the points on a selected object, while keeping the object itself selected.
Using the built-in InDesign tools, the way to do that would seem to be: switch to the direct selection white arrow tool (by pressing CMD) as you have been doing. Click anywhere on the path of the object. This clears all selected points while keeping the object selected. Now release CMD to get back to the Pen tool, and add your point.
If this is too fiddly (it can be tricky to click on the path itself, although the white arrow changes subtely to show you that you're over the path), you can alternatively use the following one line script:
try {app.selection[0].select()}catch(_){};
This does the same thing: It deselects all selected points on the current page item.
To use, copy this line to a text editor. Save with the extension .jsx and place in your InDesign scripts folder. You can then assign a keyboard shortcut to the script, so that it should be very easy to deselect all the points.

How do I switch to "Add Anchor Point Tool" and "Convert Point Tool" with shortcuts? (CS6)(Windows 7)

I would like to know if there’re shortcuts to switch to" Add Anchor Point Tool" and "Convert Point Tool" on Photoshop CS6 while using a Windows 7 PC.
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What I usually do is use the pen tool. Clicking anywhere on the path adds points, clicking on a point removes it and holding down the alt key while over a point is the convert point tool. Ctrl key is the direct selection tool and ctrl+alt key while dragging the object duplicates it.

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Hi,
I have just started using Fireworks and am unable to close a
figure made up of curves using pen tool and line segments using pen
/ line tools. How do I plot points on any given shape and close it
so that i can colour the shape . Right now I am not able to give
colour to the shapes I have created.
Please help
Regards
Sanjish

SANJISH wrote:
> Hi,
> I have just started using Fireworks and am unable to
close a figure
> made up of curves using pen tool and line segments using
pen / line tools. How
> do I plot points on any given shape and close it so that
i can colour the shape
> . Right now I am not able to give colour to the shapes I
have created.
>
> Please help
>
> Regards
>
> Sanjish
>
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FW CS4 crashes when using the pen tool for many points

Good morning,
Every time I try to create a mask with the pen tool that
requires a good
amount of points, FW crashes. I've had this happen with CS3
as well, but
with CS4 , it crashes with many less points than CS3 - has
any one
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Aloha,
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> Hi Al,
>
>> I find I use CS3 for all tasks except for the few
that require the new
>> features in CS4. Both DW and Fireworks CS4 are giant
grey hawgs :-)
>
> I knew I should have stuck with CS3!
>
> My Bridge quit working, and I figured that was Nature's
way of telling me
> to upgrade. I spent all of a weekend trying to download
the software
> (akamai means smart - what a misnomer!), then when it
finally downloaded
> the installation was corrupt - did that three times -
took all night to
> download, with a lot of stalls and freezes.
>
> Then on Monday I call customer service and they tell me
that that download
> is too large - why offer it, then?
>
> Anyway, I bought the DVD, got it a few days later,
installed it and Bridge
> still didn't work! Turns out that my anti-virus somehow
kept it from
> working! I don't know why, since it was working
previously. Anyway, now I
> have CS4, but it doesn't work as well as CS3, as you'd
warned me - shoulda
> listened to Uncle Al! ;o) It only cost me $600 plus the
lost weekend and
> the hassles of using a glitchy program - live and learn!
>
> However, I'm an eternal optimist - haven't lost hope
that this will get
> fixed.
I'm optimistic too. I think it will start to sort itself out
when Intel's
new 24-Core 128-bit processors hit the market in conjunction
with Windows 8
and OS X Cervelat.
Al

Pen tool automatically adding points

I recently got a new computer and reloaded all of the Adobe software (CC).
Here is the issue: When I am using the pen tool, I will try to put a point in place and pull out the curve handles. <click and drag, then release mouse button> But if I hold the mouse button down for more than just a second, it will act as if I've let the mouse button go and have depressed the button again. I want to put down one point and drag the curve to where I want it but it has placed that point, dragged it part way, placed another point and I'm now dragging THAT point's curve handle. It really messes up the shape.
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CHeck your mouse. Check if a different moseu works better.
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Pen tool and masking in cs6.

In previous versions I could create a custom (vector) mask using the pen tool in 2 easy steps.
Draw a shape then drag that shape to the image i wanted the mask on. Done.
This "feature" has been removed from CS6 and its extremely annoying. Or has it just become a lot more complicated to achieve this?
I know i can create a clipping mask using the shape layer but that requires another visible layer in the layers panel. Having "roto'd" 50 elements in previous versions in the same workspace gave me 50 layers (cleaning up the solid black shapelayers after). In CS6 it gives me 100 layers.
I know i can select the shape as a selection and then apply a mask but that would make the mask a solid. I want to be able to move my tangents around etc. 100% non-destructively.
I work 100% non destructive and yes, my psd's become very large but thats no biggie, my computer can handle it. I don't want to rasterize.
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Is this 100% gone from CS6?

Kenneth Mcitalo wrote:
"If you have CS5.5 or earlier versions, create a shape and drag that shape to the layer you want to mask, remove the fill layer and you'll see what i mean. Thats what i want to be able to do in CS6.
Is this 100% gone from CS6?"
You are being affected by an almighty f**kup by the Photoshop CS6 User Interface designers.
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Here's how to get the functionality to which you are accustomed...
The VM of a Shape Layer is only displayed in the Layers panel when the VM is disabled. To disable it, shift-click its "Shape Path" thumbnail in Properties panel. (You can record an Action of shift-clicking that thumbnail to create your own Disable Vector Mask command which can be run when the Properties panel is closed.) The revealed VM can now be dragged to another layer in the Layers panel.
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I am trying to cut out an image with the pen tool and when i make a selection it selects the whole image and not the cut out. How do i stop this?

The selection basically inverts when I dont want it to do that! Any help would be great, its becoming very annoying.
Thanks

It sounds like you need to change your path operations?
Is it showing:
change to:

Filling pen tool areas.

This is a very very basic question.I am able to colour and otherwise manipulate elementary vector objects, such as rectangles. Yes, I know how to use the colour panel and the fil land ink pot tool. However, sometimes I can colour a vector shape drawn with the pen tool and sometimes I cannot. It seems completely random.
In detail: select keyframe on an empty layer. I make a triangle with the pen tool, and a small circle shows completion. I get a triangle.This is coloured not for the stroke but for the layer. It seems to exist in two densities - a layer coloured line for drawing, a thicker, same-coloured one after selection. However, neither the ink bottle nor the fill tool do anything. I can set the colour in advance, or after the event, through the colour panel or otherwise, nothing. A gradient fill does not even show the guide lines for the fill tool.
If I draw a vector box on the same layer, everything works fine for th ebox, but not for the pen tool outline.
I am coming to this from Photoshop: do I have to convert the path to a selection, or something, before I can paint into a path?

Further to this, here is the solution.
The pen tool will, as you know, show an open circle when it has the potential to close a path. If you click, the path is supposed to close. In fact it, does not do so perfectly, and Fill will not work if the Options are set to respect small gaps. If you turn this off, it will fill.
How do you do this? If you select the paint bucket fill tool, you will see a similarly tiny icon with a circle on it appear at the foot of the tool bar. If you click on that, a series of options appear. Select "close small gaps" and now you can fill the path. This shows up on the properties window, for example, as a change in the property of the path, not the tool. The whole thing is simply stupidly thought through, or essentially not thought through.
It has taken me a day - a night - to solve this. There are no references to these ephemeral options in any help document that i have read. This is pretty typical of the Adobe approach to users. The CS4 UI is forced to be gray on gray, which may sound fine for graphics artists but makes the thing extremely hard to use for anyone else. . The icons do not resize with screen resolution, so if you want to use a 3000+ x 1500+ screen, as I do, they become invisibly small. If you go to what presumably Adobe thinks of as native resolution - 1260 x 768 - they are still unreadable to anyone over 30 at normal viewing distance. How is anyone supposed to see, easily, whether a 5 pixel circle is filled with gray or not at four feet? Why not use colour, a shape change? Just as documentation is an afterthought, so too is the UI. I imagine the company as made up of very young programmers, all with good eyesight and, in general, a subservient marketing effort.

One point circle path with pen tool

I have heard or people drawing a circle path with one point and dragging or something like this. I would really like to be able to do this! Is this possible?

Absolutely just hold down the shift key while dragging one of the ellipse tools. Add the Alt|CMD key then circle center will be where you start dragging from. Marque ellipse tool or ellipse tool. Selection can be turned into path. But the Ellipse tool is better for its a vector tool. Can create shapes layers, Paths and fill pixels... Pen Tool circle is hard but you can use the pen tool to edit the circle path created with the ellipse tool.

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