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vincent_8939
Participant
January 28, 2026

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

  • January 28, 2026
  • 25 replies
  • 956 views

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 ?

    25 replies

    Participating Frequently
    March 17, 2026

    Was this ever fixed? This is happening now to me at work and at home. Completely unusable. Do we get a month comped in our CC subscription because Adobe can’t fix it’s flagship program? 

    maleificentX
    Participant
    March 16, 2026

    This is also happening to me. It’s impossible to finish my edit - when will this bug be fixed???

    Legend
    March 17, 2026

    Are you using a graphics tablet?

    S Froehlich
    Participant
    March 12, 2026

    Thanks! :-)

    Ged_Traynor
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    March 12, 2026

    @S Froehlich you’re not alone

     

    S Froehlich
    Participant
    March 12, 2026

     

    Legend
    March 12, 2026

    Do you have a drawing tablet? I haven’t seen this in a while but it was happening on Windows 10 maybe 4-5 years ago for me. I suspect it was a memory-related problem.

    Ged_Traynor
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    February 24, 2026

    @jy_BAS the issue has been reported here

     

    jy_BAS
    Participating Frequently
    February 23, 2026

    I’ve been experiencing this weird brush tool issue where a single click causes random drawing behavior that sometimes is a simple wild stroke to a series of random scribbling that will fill the entire screen (video attached—those are single brush clicks causing the weird random drawing). This has been happening for the last 3 versions of Photoshop, and strangely enough, it seems to go away randomly, enough so that I’ve not been able to grab a video capture of the issue until just now. I’ve reset the brush tool as well as all tools to no avail. Anyone have a magic button for this? I’ll even take the longform mechanical fix if it exists. 🤢

    AxelMatt
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    February 21, 2026

    It seems that’s also the known issue described here: P: Photoshop drawing random lines when using tools (Remove, Brush and other drawing tools) | Adobe DME

     

    You can  try to check your graphic device driver and in necessary update to the recent version. If you’ve installed a Nvidia card make sure that you install the recent Studio Version of the driver. Don’t use the Game Ready version.

     

    Try also to reset the Photoshop preferences. somtetimes it may help.

    https://helpx.adobe.com/ie/photoshop/using/preferences.html#Manually

    Remember to back up your settings before doing the preference reset:

    https://helpx.adobe.com/ie/photoshop/using/preset-migration.html

     

    If this doesn’t help, provide a copy of your 'System Info'. This can be get from the Photoshop menu item Help > System Info. There's a copy button in the System Info dialog. Press this button and paste the info into your next forum post. 

    My System: Intel i7-8700K - 64GB RAM - NVidia Geforce RTX 3060 - Windows 11 Pro 25H2 -- LR-Classic 15 - Photoshop 27 - Nik Collection 8 - PureRAW 5 - Topaz Photo
    Russ25705525tyj3
    Participant
    February 20, 2026

    screen capture of what’s happening when I try to use brushes.  example: I can’t paint a single stroke.  When I try is dhoots lines all over the screen.

    marjappee
    Participant
    February 10, 2026

    Thanks. You saved my day (and life) ♡