Quick selection & smart brush tools are freezing

Hello! As of the past couple days I have had issues using my quick selection and smart brush tools. Every time I try to use either as soon as I start lassoing part of my image it freezes. I can't click Command+D, I can't click anything else in my toolbar, I can't open up a new picture. The only thing I can do is to Force Quit. I recently downloaded Yosemite for my MacBook Pro and wonder if the issue could somehow correlate with that. Any ideas? Thank you!

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