Problems with Photoshop CS5.1

Question

Hello everyone, I'm having some problems with Photoshop, it simply doesn't work as it should. When trying to resize the brush, the cursor changes shape and if I click, it won't, for example, paint where the cursor is pointing at, but about two inches diagonally. Then, the liquify tool freezes and I have to zoom in/out in order to make it work again, the brush disappears when changing the size, and again the cursor changes into something else and doesn't make any adjustment to where it's pointing at, but to a lower section. It's annoying to keep working like this! According to the update manager, everything is up to date. My current OS is Lion 10.7.2. Does anybody know how to fix this or at least why it is happening? I asked in the Adobe forums and I was told that it was Apple's fault (obvious response haha), and that a software update should come up to fix this driver problem or something. I'm not sure of what this is but I can't work like this. Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

What it means is Adobe is feverishly working on a solution.  Apple has no control over Adobe's products.  They may make spec changes to allow for better support of other data formats, and the GUI, and security of the operating system, and Adobe is always in the loop on http://developer.apple.com/  If they can't make Lion work with their software, it is partly due to the immense size of their software and not being able to modify such software without significant error checking, and partly due to possible changes that Apple may have made.  One should never upgrade a production environment until one knows all one's software is compatible for all one's needs.  Having a test machine, or a test hard drive to see if an upgrade works is probably best until migrating an entire environment to a new system.  And always backup your data prior to upgrading.  A clone backup offers the quickest recovery time.  Carbon Copy Cloner is a great solution for external hard drives, and so is Superduper.