Comments on: Photoshop Stuck on Hand Tool

By: digidave

digidave — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 02:20:44 +0000

Most of the time hitting the space bar will fix this issue…

By: Ken

Ken — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 03:08:59 +0000

Adam, heck if I understand what u wanna say here! :))

By: Adam L

Adam L — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 23:20:04 +0000

The solution in the article didn’t work for me, but the solution of going to yahoo.com and entering “photoshop hand tool” without quotes worked magically. This is pretty weird.

The thing is that I believe this is an antipiracy measure when it detects a “crack” or a file protection hack in place but for *some reason* (really good hack) is still running.

I think I have a pretty good reason to believe this. Reset all warning dialogs might fix a misfire of the procedure but I don’t know why it would be programmed to stop bothering us when we search Yahoo.
Perhaps there is a sniffer in place on the data the searches create, but I am just being paranoid.

By: Azlea

Azlea — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 22:38:45 +0000

Excellent, worked perfectly.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 19:48:28 +0000

THANK YOU MAN. I’ve been having this issue for a while now.. maybe once every couple months, and I always just rebooted and it was fixed. Finally decided to google it and this worked. You saved me several future reboots! Thanks Again!

By: Colin

Colin — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 00:33:45 +0000

Wow the yahoo trick worked for me, im using cs4.
I searched using the ” ”

Dont know how this worked but it did!

By: Maryam

Maryam — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 22:05:02 +0000

Yahoo thing worked!!!!

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 23:02:52 +0000

Perfect. Thanks so much for the help!

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 16 May 2011 16:18:01 +0000

I’ve had this problem a few times. The way I ‘fixed’ it was to go to my Firefox window that was already open, type “photoshop stuck on hand tool” in the Google toolbar, click on this site in the search results, and then go back to Photoshop, where the problem was mysteriously gone.

By: cris

cris — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:08:56 +0000

TheGuyWithASimpleSolution says:
April 3, 2010 at 2:02 am

A simple but WEIRD solution. DON’T DO ANYTHING WITH PHOTOSHOP AT ALL AND DON’T RESTART THE PROGRAM OR YOUR COMPUTER!! HUGE waste of time. All you have to do, and I SWEAR this works as it’s been tested MULTIPLE times by myself and 3 others who ran into the same exact problem, is follow these instructions and it will work immediately.
Step 1: Go to http://www.yahoo.com
Step 2: In Search type “photoshop hand tool”
Step 3: Hit the ‘enter’ button
Step 4: Forget about any results that come up when you search and go back to Photoshop to find your hand tool problem/glitch/headache cured as if by magic.
It’s almost as if the program itself is screwing with us and realizes the game is up once we start searching for a solution. VERY WEIRD, but I PROMISE it works.

CANT BELIEVE IT… IT ACTUALY WORKS

By: jackofalltrades

jackofalltrades — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 15:52:21 +0000

Thanks a lot. Just works..

By: T.

T. — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 20:12:25 +0000

lol i pressed SPACE and it was okay

By: web design

web design — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 11:46:03 +0000

Weird!!!!!!!! But amazinglt it works!!!

Thanx Buddy

By: My Photoshop CS4 is Broken

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By: Kassie

Kassie — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 22:36:47 +0000

Reply to TheGuyWithASimpleSolution: your solution is simpler than you think, just hit the space bar if your hand tool gets stuck, it's because your space bar is sticking

By: skate

skate — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 09:51:03 +0000

Ctrl+k !!, It happens at least once to all people that work with photoshop.
Nice!.

By: Armenian boy

Armenian boy — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:21:44 +0000

if you have Hand Tool fixed in the stage area:
1. Right click to windows panel
2. Chose “Start Task Manager”
3. Go to “Processes” tab
4.Search “Photoshop.exe”
5. Right click to “Photoshop.exe” & click to “End Process”
6. Now restart Photoshop. :)

By: Rishav

Rishav — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 07:54:11 +0000

Hii….thanx for sharing this solution….It saved much of my time….Keep up the good work going man….

By: Ken

Ken — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 15:08:51 +0000

this problem is bothering me too. So if you guys got anything to fix this problem, drop a line. Till then I stick with my idea that it's a memory issue.

Jim, is happened to me regularly and I'm not on 64 bit. It seams that is not a matter of windows but a PS bug. I am curious if this is happened to Mac OS users though - for me it doesn't as I am using a mac at my job place. Keep me posted with the NAB, please. Curious as hell but I have the same feeling as you.

By: Jim Selleck

Jim Selleck — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 14:46:42 +0000

This problem is serious for me as I have deadlines to meet and having Photoshop suddenly stop working in the middle of a project is more than just annoying. Please, those of you who have found ONE fix that works “every time”, do not lecture us about how silly we are for trying other things. Believe me, your fix does not work “every time” for everybody.

I believe I have tried them all, and some work sometimes, others work other time, and sometimes, NOTHING works and I cannot finish a project. Photoshop has become functionally useless to me so I am simply going to have to go with another product, which saddens me because I have relied on PS for years.

This problem was first reported almost TWO YEARS ago (yes, I shouted) and Adobe hasn’t come up with anything. Also, the fact that for over a year now it has been known that auto-updating on 64-bit computers (ALL new Windows systems being sold today are 64-bit) does not work and messes up your system has not been addressed yet either.

I will be seeking out Adobe reps at NAB in Las Vegas in 2 weeks and will be asking them specifically about these issues. I really HOPE they have good answers, but I fear they will not and I will just have to move on.