Cannot Edit Anything In PS

Forum|Forum|3 years ago
September 7, 2022
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I loaded up a .PNG into PS. As I readied myself for the task, I accidentally pressed the 'F' key. I pushed it several times until the program was back to normal. Except now, I cannot draw, fill, erase...nada. All I have is the prohibition symbol (circle with a diagonal line through it). I tried resetting the tools, the Essentials workspace, etc.

What's the magic key to fixing this?

Windows

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$cotty

Participant

When I converted the PNG file into a JPEG, phtotoshop worked as usual. This was the case for all images I uploaded as PNG. I'm not sure why this happened, I was just happy I could edit the photos.

Bojan Živković11378569

Community Expert

"circle with a diagonal line through it"

This means you can not edit or use active tool. If you click on canvas-image what error message appears? There can be numerous reasons that you can not use some tools including that none of the layers is selected in the Layers panel or because you are in Indexed color mode, or perhaps as mentioned you are trying to edith directly Smart Object layer. Screenshot of entire window with Layers panel visible should help us to understand problem.