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P: Photoshop drawing random lines when using tools (Remove, Brush and other drawing tools)

Forum|Forum|5 months ago
January 28, 2026
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Bonjour,

Quand j'utilise l'Outil Correcteur Localisé en cliquant avec ma souris sur une zone de la photo à l’écran, une multitude de lignes partent dans tous les sens. Donc cet outil ne fonctionne plus depuis plusieurs jours. Est-ce un bug ?

Pinned Reply By Bkelley01

I was having the same issues with multiple tools in Photoshop. Finally after a day of trying all things, we have found a solution on Reddit. I tried it and it fixed it right up. This is for PC only.

Create a text document with Notepad. Name it “PSUserConfig.txt”
Write “UseSystemStylus 0” in the text body (that’s a zero not an “O”)
Save it in “C:\Users\*YOUR USER NAME*\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop 2026\Adobe Photoshop 2026 Settings

(In step 3, *YOUR USER NAME* is unique to whatever your username is.)

Restart photoshop and the tools should work again.

Credit to u/Professional_Use442 on Reddit for sharing this fix. Note: If you want to use the stylus again you’ll have to follow their instructions on how to re--enable the stylus mode.

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deris66

Participant

buonasera ho un problema con i pennelli di photoshop. Appena comincio ad usare un pennello e clicco il tasto del mouse mi comincia a dare delle penellate autonome come se volesse unire dei punti, ho provato a cambiare il mouse ma fa lo stesso. Devo avere attivato qualcosa ma non riesco a capire cosa. Grazie a chi saprà aiutarmi

J E L

Community Expert

Hi @deris66, please try to reset the Brush Tool to defaults:

With the Brush Tool selected, click the gear icon in the Options bar.
Choose Reset Tool.

deris66

Participant

buonasera ho un problema con i pennelli di photoshop, quando lo uso appena clicco il tasto sinistro del mouse mi parte in automatico a fare pennellate a caso come se dovesse unire dei punti. Devo avere attivato qualche impostazione sbagliata ma non so quale

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

Please re-post your question in the Photoshop forum below where product experts will see it and help you.

Photoshop Ecosystem - Questions

https://community.adobe.com/questions-712

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

jane-e

Community Expert

@Nancy OShea wrote: Please re-post your question in the Photoshop forum

Both this message and the duplicate are already in the Photoshop forum.

Jane

Ged_Traynor

Community Expert

@rene36463830341e there’s a similar thread here

rene36463830341e

Participant

Additionally; this problem is not apparent in MS paint or using the Adobe Illustrator paintbrush function, which leads me to believe it is an issue with photoshop?

rene36463830341e

Participant

Using photoshop V 27.3

When I try to draw a line with a mouse, upon the very first click, instead of a circle appearing at the point of my curser, a totally random line, sometimes multiple, will spawn from the origin of the click. Sometimes the next time I try to draw a line, it will be fine, but if I switch tools or change windows(eg. click on google chrome and then back to photoshop), the random lines will appear again. I’ve seen some previous posts and tried the solutions listed there, eg. turning off GPU, turning off rulers, etc, but nothing works. Hoping someone has a fix for this

Sameer K

Community Manager

Hey, @vincent_8939. Welcome to the Photoshop Community. I’ll clarify this for you.

This is a Windows-only known bug that, in some cases, gets resolved with graphics driver updates. The team is investigating this, and I’ve moved your post to Bugs and updated the status for now.

Thanks!
Sameer K

jane-e

Community Expert

@Sameer K wrote: This is a Windows-only known bug…

Hi Sameer, can you please mark your post as highlighted?

Jane

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Dimitra P.

Known Participant

I am having an issue after the latest Photoshop updates with the tools behaving erratically. For ex. the Patch tool will make a random zigzag selection and the same happens with other tools like the regular Brush, Healing Brush, Clone Stamp etc. It seems like a glitch that randomly happens and you have to try several times to make the tool work.

I updated to the latest version and the problem persists.

Here is a screen recording

SYSTEM INFO

Adobe Photoshop Version: 27.3.0 20260122.r.13 2d403ec x64 (final, Release)
Operating System: Windows 11 64-bit
Version: 11 or greater 10.0.26200.6584

Processor 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1270P (2.20 GHz)
Installed RAM 32,0 GB

GPU Compatibility

Pass: DirectX available
Pass: DirectX feature level 12.1 available, feature level 12.0 required
Pass: Above required VRAM (17142 MB of 1500 MB required)
GPU Detected: Intel(R) Iris(R) Xe Graphics (INTEL)

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Dimitra P.

Known Participant

To anyone having the same issues: It seems that the issue was related to the Drivers. Windows had all the latest updates but there were some additional updates from Dell that I needed to install and now the problem is fixed!

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Turone24

Participating Frequently

what’s going on? Some posts have just been simply deleted. A serious bug currently ongoing with brush, stamp tools, etc being completely impossible to control is the subject of many posts like the following one have just disappeared! So impossible now to get any feedback or follow up! 😡

Re: P: Photoshop drawing random lines on its own during strange glitch

johnrellis

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@Turone24 what’s going on? Some posts have just been simply deleted.

See this reply:

Re: P: Photoshop drawing random lines on its own during strange glitch

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