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Post by Bailey on Apr 3, 2018 23:03:45 GMT
You Gentlemen may want to check your thumbs as this is not a memory issue. Hi fotofrank, I'm not sure what you mean. My thumbs were not the ones being hammered and I did say I doubted it was a memory issue in my earlier post. In my case nudging the selection box or the square brackets not working happens extremely rarely on my pc and only when I have a large number of images open and/or just finished some fairly cpu intensive processing as I also mentioned. I use the Effects panel features on even rarer occasions. I have tried changing tools when it happens etc etc to no avail. The arrow keys and/or the []s remain "stuck". Therefore, because of its rarity this is a very minor issue for me and not worth wasting my time on trying to figure out exactly what is going on. BillieJean's suggestion is a very good one for me. If it happens again, I will try resetting all tools or just the individual tool. It doesn't matter for me because I have never done any permanent customisations to any of the tools. If that fails, then I will just close all files, restart PSE with just the files I need to work on. Since it takes me only about 10-15 seconds to shut down/restart PSE this is the best solution for me, if resetting all tools doesn't work, since it is not labour intensive or time consuming. |
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Post by Sepiana on Apr 3, 2018 23:29:28 GMT
Here is a test: Open an image Goto the Effect Panel and apply any Monotone Color Make a selection and see if you can "nudge" it. Then select the move tool as Craig suggested, and see if you can move it. Frank, I did the test. Yes, indeed. I can confirm that one needs the Move Tool. This test reaffirms that Craig was on the right track when he asked "Are you sure you have the move tool selected when you try it?". The Move tool does play a role in the selection process. Without having all the details of the problem, he asked the most logical question. That’s what sound troubleshooting is all about; you start with the "usual suspects" and go from there. |
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Post by Bailey on Apr 3, 2018 23:55:45 GMT
When I open an image in PSE I then immediately select the Marquee Tool and make a selection without touching any other tool or panel. Without touching anything else at all, I then use the arrow keys to nudge the selection box. This normally works but on very rare occasions the selection box does not move as described earlier. The Effects Panel is not even opened let alone used at all. In my original post I said In another post in this thread I said this is how nudging normally worksSo I still don't see how the Move tool is even remotely related since after the nudging becomes stuck, it still doesn't work (remains stuck) if I subsequently select the Move tool or any other tool, and it only becomes stuck in the first place when I have a large number of files open or after some very cpu intensive processing. It has never happened, so far, when I have only a single or 2-3 images open in the editor. So the best solution for me is still BillieJean's solution/workaround, call it what you prefer. And I hope the bruising on reshaker's thumb heals quickly  |
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Post by Bailey on Apr 4, 2018 4:40:22 GMT
... ... So the question is did this happen when you applied an effect on your layer? ... In my case the answer is, No. It only happens on very rare occasions as I described earlier. |
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Post by reshacker on Apr 4, 2018 6:06:04 GMT
To be clear, I select an area with the marquee tool, copy it, then move the marquee via arrow key to a new location and paste the copy there. Pretty routine for me. Only now and then the marquee refuses to move.
I just realized another "new" issue that may be to blame:
On ocassion I find the layer I'm working on is not selected when I did not deselect it. How this happens is baffling me. None of this has ever happened in v2.
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Post by Bailey on Apr 4, 2018 6:17:57 GMT
To be clear, I select an area with the marquee tool, copy it, then move the marquee via arrow key to a new location and paste the copy there. Pretty routine for me. Only now and then the marquee refuses to move. ... Now you are changing what you said in your original post. Originally you said Another anomaly?
Normally this works:
1. Select an area with the Marquee Tool. 2. Hit an arrow key to move the selection marquee box around to reposition it.
But sometimes it fails to work at all in 2018. I have to save, close and reopen PSE to get it to work again. You are now adding an extra step between 1 and 2 by saying you copy the selection before moving it. I use a much easier method (for me at least) to copy a selection to another area which doesn't involve arrow keys at all (or the Move Tool). 1. Make the selection 2. Then while holding down the CTRL and ALT keys, I use the mouse by pressing and holding down the left mouse button and drag a copy of the selection to a new location. 3. Release the mouse button and CTRL/ALT keys and voila!!. A copy of the selection has been moved to the new location. In this case I don't need the arrow keys at all to do what you want. You can then locate multiple copies of the selection to other parts of the image, if needed, by repeating steps 2 and 3. The main situation I use this technique is when I want to patch areas of an image with something similar (the selection). To help blend the patch into the new location(s) I usually feather the selection a little. |
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Post by Sepiana on Apr 4, 2018 6:30:44 GMT
To be clear, I select an area with the marquee tool, copy it, then move the marquee via arrow key to a new location and paste the copy there. Pretty routine for me. Only now and then the marquee refuses to move. reshacker,
You may want to check this Adobe document from the Help file.
Move and copy selections
I am not sure this will do the trick but . . . try this. Turn off the "Auto Select Layer" setting for the Move Tool. This setting seems to have a mind of its own. I keep it turned off. |
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Post by Bailey on Apr 4, 2018 6:51:20 GMT
I forgot to mention that depending on where you want to move the selection to, using the mouse to relocate the selection box is much faster than nudging and/or holding down the arrow keys and executing the copy/paste commands at the appropriate times.
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Post by reshacker on Apr 4, 2018 7:03:30 GMT
Thanks guys. Didnt know about some of those things. Will try them out.
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Post by Bailey on Apr 4, 2018 7:38:23 GMT
no problem reshaker.
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Post by Sepiana on Apr 4, 2018 7:59:09 GMT
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Post by Bailey on Apr 4, 2018 8:06:34 GMT
From earlier,
Hopefully there is a Mac equivalent for this. I am not a Mac user so I have no idea what it might be.
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Post by reshacker on May 6, 2018 5:44:29 GMT
No answers to this issue yet but I just noticed that when it happens, the arrow keys are moving the selection marque around in the Styles window instead of the tool marque in the image, so it's like focus is not letting go of it.
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Post by Sepiana on May 6, 2018 12:32:37 GMT
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