Help! Photoshop CS6 hangs when using brush, clone, healing brush tools etc on Mac

This does not completely eliminate the problem, but it's a pretty good fix anyway: If any of the  Photoshop tools hang (especially clone and paint) press the command and period key (stop process combo),  then click in there history box under the last completed function and the tool will work. Very few hangs, if any, continue with this solution.

I had the same problem with the clone stamp freezing the computer . I am using a mac.I figured out it was the 'mouse keys' option (disables the keyboard and trackpad -i think to get a better reading from a bluetooth keyboard?)  I believe in Accessibilities preferences. this setting has an option if checked to toggle"mouse keys" on or off by pressing the option key 5x in a row. paired with a barely hesitant key repeat speed, I was basically disabling my trackpad and keyboard by holding down the option key for not even a whole second. Don't know if this will help anyone but ya

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Hi guys!

I had the issue with Photoshop lagging/hanging like a couple of years ago, with CS6, and the White Window Workaround solved the issue for me then. I now use CC 2014.2.2 and the problems are there once again.

I have an iMac, bought it in april/may 2014. Specs:

3,5 GHz Intel Core i7

32 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

1 TB Fusiondrive

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M 4096 MB

I use a Wacom Intuos 4 and I shoot with a Canon EOS 5D mk III, pixel dimensions 5760x3840. I use the clone stamp and healing brush a lot for skin retouch etc. I experience the lag/hang issue with these tools, and the brush tool, when I work on large PSD images.

Just now, I set the RAM memory usage in PS preferences to 90% and started working with the clone stamp and healing brush. Non-stop for about 15 minutes (with about one Alt-click and one stroke per second) the hang/lag did not occur. The file I worked on was a PSD file with one background layer and one empty layer above. File size 120 MB.

And then, to REALLY put it to the test, I opened a PSD-file, 5760x3840 pixels, 775 MB, with about 180 layers and adjustment layers (ran a lot of Better Than Gatsby-actions) and created an empty layer on the top and started working with the healing brush and clone stamp. It started lagging right away. Every stroke takes 1-2 seconds after pen-up to take effect.

Next step, I flattened the image and created an empty layer and started working with clone stamp and healing brush once again. No problem.

So for me it seems to work ok when I have just booted my computer, opened Photoshop with maybe one or two other applications running, and do my clone/heal work on the image when it does not contain that many layers yet. But the longer I use PS and the larger the file size and layers amount gets, the more lagging/hanging I get. Sometimes PS just "freezes" and then I try what everyone else here have tried, switching programs, clicking the bar at the top of PS etc. It goes away temporarily but comes back pretty soon.

And like I said, the White Window Workaround worked for me in CS6, but the issue is more noticable in CC 2014. I have also updated to the latest Wacom drivers but that did not make any difference.

It's really unbelievable how long this issue has been around...

The whole plugin thing seems to have worked for me !  Thank you

Thank god, can't believe how long I put up with this pain for.

My symptoms were :

Brush tool wasnt updating every stroke - it would get stuck where I couldnt change palette or do another stroke.  Also healing brush was slow, and the hand tool was slow using space bar to pan the image.

To manually get it out of "stuck" mode I used to either click in my history or adjust my brush size using Ctrl+Option and pen horizontally. This used to wake it up the fastest.

Bought the latest Intuos Pro Ltd Edition, installed the latest Wacom drivers, still getting the hangs. Photoshop CC and CS6 on every version of the Mac OS from 10.6.8 up to Mavericks. Tried on various Macs including latest Mac Pro, 2009 Mac Pro, Mac Mini, iMac, Macbook Air. Every single config of hardware/OS exhibits the bug.

Any updates please Adobe? What are you doing to permanently fix this showstopping bug?

So, still nothing but the semi-feckless white rabbit workaround???

I'm on Mac system 10.9.3 with the CC version of Photoshop. Tools still hang. I have to go to the dock open another program and come back to Photoshop to get the tools to work. I haven't noticed that any particular tools hang. So far it has been across the board. It is now June 2014 and apparently Adobe doesn't care too much about this.

Guys,

We all know that Adobe cares less about these issues at this poin

I understand the issues of customers and all that... But for now, let's see if we can come up with work around solutions.

Here is what I do.  See if you can replicate this method and it works.

*When the lag happens... 1. I switch to other applications using (Command + Tab) 2. Switch back to PS6 via (Command + Tab) Lag is gone.

this also works with loading text lag.

Mac OSX bug?  I am not sure.  I had this issue as soon as I upgraded to CS6.  Long before OSX 10.9

Same Problem:

Very Annoying

osX: Macerics

Wacom Intuos4 and the New(er) "Intous"