I'm on a Mac here at work. I've tried re-setting preferences on quit, but that doesn't solve the issue. Tried to log out of CC and log back in, didn't help. Tried to uninstall and re-install Photoshop, didn't work. If I open a new file as RGB and enter some type, I can highlight it. I close the RGB file (Don't save it) and go to my CMYK file and then I can highlight the text. It will work from that point on as long as I keep Photoshop open. If I quit out of Photoshop or restart my Mac, then I'm back to square one. The only permanent solution seems to be to change the change the Drawing Mode from Advanced to Basic in the Advanced Settings of the Graphics Processor Settings in Photoshop preferences, Performance section. For me, I'll just create an RGB file and enter some type and close the file and go back to my CMYK file for now. Annoying as heck, for sure!!!

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aspeck

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THANK YOU! This worked for me. I never had an issue until my MAC didn't shut down properly due to a failed external backup battery. What JohnnyVegas posted below worked like a charm.

44. Re: Cant Highlight Text

JohnnyVegas70 Jan 18, 2019 9:10 AM (in response to Richo@tritone)

I'm on a Mac here at work. I've tried re-setting preferences on quit, but that doesn't solve the issue. Tried to log out of CC and log back in, didn't help. Tried to uninstall and re-install Photoshop, didn't work. If I open a new file as RGB and enter some type, I can highlight it. I close the RGB file (Don't save it) and go to my CMYK file and then I can highlight the text. It will work from that point on as long as I keep Photoshop open. If I quit out of Photoshop or restart my Mac, then I'm back to square one. The only permanent solution seems to be to change the change the Drawing Mode from Advanced to Basic in the Advanced Settings of the Graphics Processor Settings in Photoshop preferences, Performance section. For me, I'll just create an RGB file and enter some type and close the file and go back to my CMYK file for now. Annoying as heck, for sure!!!

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mounirs6770512

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same problem here with the new update today, very annoying

Jakub Zet.

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Hello,

I have same problem with highlight texts after update PS to 2019 (v20.0.1) MacOS Mojave 10.14.2

I'll grateful for help, thx

Transform controls disappeared too

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Now it works I dont know what happened in the morning, version still 20.0.1

Jason Scaleit

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I had this exact problem, I am working on macOS High Sierra and in Adobe Photoshop CC 2019. I can not highlight text. Even when I double click on the text layer, it will not highlight. I followed the advice of someone on this forum and I connected with Adobe Support through their chat option. They walked me through one step, once that did not work, they came into my computer remotely and made A LOT of adjustments in the photoshop preferences. My advice is to connect to adobe chat and let them remotely fix the problem. Anything I tried on my own did not work.

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as58231203

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I reached out to customer support and they walked me through the fix. They also supplied me with this article. After following the steps I am back up and running properly without needing to reinstall photoshop. Hope this helps!

Optimize performance Photoshop CC

robperrydesign

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I just had the same issue. I logged out of Adobe CC. Closed Photoshop. Signed back into Adobe CC. Reopened Photoshop and everything seems to be working fine again.

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mehdi_can

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i found a very simple solution...

Open a new document in RGB and your text highlight and cursor will appear, even in other documents.

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gregonweb

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Ridiculous that opening another doc in RGB is the workaround... yet, it worked! Thanks very much for the suggestion. Absolutely unacceptable bug from an industry giant.

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Dominic Forbes

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The workaround we found, with broken file (no highlighting!) open, create a new RGB document. Set some text, transform it. It should highlight as normal. Go back to the broken document which in our case was CMYK. Should be working again.