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fredtat
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September 3, 2013

P: Pen tool lags

  • September 3, 2013
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In Photoshop CC the pen tool lags about half second from when it is initially clicked. This makes it very hard to work fast using paths. It literally takes half a second for an anchor point to appear after clicking.

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    rhunt88
    Participating Frequently
    September 9, 2015

    This is still occurring for me. Photoshop and Nvidia card up to date.

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    Ping HD Content
    Participant
    May 8, 2015
    I'm still experiencing a delay on my click/software response of the pen tool, but interestingly, as another poster previously mentioned, I have no delay when using my Wacom Intuos4 Medium tablet. The delay only occurs with my mouse (I'm using a wired Logitech). Maybe a Wacom driver incompatibility or a mouse issue?
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    rhunt88
    Participating Frequently
    April 15, 2015
    I had this problem about 10 months ago but it went away with an update. Now it's back again. It makes the pen tool pretty much unusable at any decent speed.
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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    February 7, 2015
    Not for me..
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    J453
    Legend
    February 4, 2015
    This should be fixed in the most recent CC update (2014.2.2).
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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    February 3, 2015
    I found a technique that works for me.

    While having the Pen Tool selected, look at the top tool panel.

    - Click on the "Align" icon (3rd from the left of the Auto Add/Delete check box)

    - Check "Align to Canvas" (mine was defaulted to Align to Selection)

    That's it!!

    This worked for me - even when I selected "Align to Selection" again.

    This may be a temporary workaround, meaning you may have to do it after closing Photoshop and re-opening, but at least it fixes the problem for your current session.

    Please test and report back. Would love to see if this helps anyone else.



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    GoleanuMarius
    Participant
    September 24, 2014
    i experience the same problem, pen delays few minutes after opening Photoshop.
    But you know what is the funny part?
    Pen only delays when i use it with mouse (Asus ROG). with graphic tablet (wacom-bamboo) has 0 lag.

    all drivers are up to date.

    Any explenation?
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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    July 2, 2014
    I have all the updates installed, tried it without starting other applications.
    Since a) I do not have this kind of lags (or any other lags) in other software packages (including the ones which we develop ourselves) and b) this problem was not present before the last updates and c) the problem is not present when I just open Photoshop and the lag increases while working, I am not sure how it may be related to the things outside of the Photoshop.

    I do not switch to the newer Photoshop versions because of the changed license model. We are using it sporadically to draw icons and screen previews and one-time license would be fine, while paying money each year seems to be overshooting. Also, looking at bugs which you encounter immediately after installing the software and starting working even after this long support cycle in CS6, I am not sure that the new version will be better.

    Just a couple more:
    - auto selection in the move tool was not working properly and it took me some time to understand that the setting whether to select a layer or a layer group are just exchanged (I do not know, maybe it is again an improper translation into the Russian)

    - when you just install the software and set the grid to 1 pixel, it does not match the pixel grid:



    Of course, I understand that Adobe here is a monopolist and it will need some time for other tool to reach the proper level, but when such an advanced program has such glitches that are easily seen, are easy to fix but never fixed - this makes me feel that the company, being proud of the software does not care about the needs that might be essential to the user workflow.

    I might sound somewhat too aggressive but that glitches is not what I expected for that money.
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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    July 2, 2014
    Make sure you have installed all the CS66 updates. And you are already 2 major versions of Photoshop behind...

    And you still need to see what on your system (drivers or other applications) could be slowing down Photoshop. This is not a problem that most people experience, and seems to be caused by things outside of Photoshop.
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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    July 1, 2014
    I have the same problem since the last update. When you just open a picture, everything is fine. But as you do something, the mouse click operations have more and more delays (freezes at pressing the mouse). This affects all operations: selection, moving a path point, color picking, etc... The only solution is closing and reopening the PhotoShop (reloading a file does not help). I also tried reducing and turning off video acceleration, changing the allowed memory usage. It looks like at each click operation they create a history restore point sticking with some clutter.

    64 bit, AMD (latest drivers), Kaveri A10, 8 GB mem, SSD as the primary disk, plenty of free space.

    This PhotoShop CS6 is a strange beast. It does not look like they take care of the bugs. E.g. in the Russian version (I had to buy a localized one because it was much cheaper) when you convert an image to grayscale you get a dialog with two buttons: "Cancel" and "Cancellation", and you just have to guess where to click. The super-simple and obvious bug is present from the beginning and not fixed so far.
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