P: Pen Tool Not Working as it should

When drawing a path over an existing one using the pen tool, the line are not shown anymore, only the knots.

Except if I use the freeform, the line is shown.

WTF!?

Thanks for the "work around".  Saved my day!

Legend!!! I was furious this morning when an Adobe agent kept sending me to the "how to use the pen tool" page of their website... Even though I showed the screen recording of this behaviour. Your solution at least makes paths usable again until it's fixed 😃 THANK YOU!!

This works a treat, thank you! Hopefully bug is fixed soon

Thank you. That must be how I got it to work 🙂

In the latest update, when using the pen tool to edit an existing path (like to add in a path around a gap you missed when etching) - Photoshop will only add anchor points to that path, and refuses to link them to draw a shape. Instead you just get lots of floating anchor points with no path connecting them.

If you click off your path in the palette so there are none selected, then start drawing a path, Photoshop creates a new work path and draws normally. This path can be copied and pasted into your saved path just fine, but if you click into any saved path it reverts back to the new anchor point only behaviour.

I can't see how this is useful in any way, so it must be a bug?

*Myra De La Cruz To make a work path, make sure no other paths are selected, and click with the path tool in the image to create a point. This will create a work path that you can just leave in the paths palette and work on the other paths normally.

Again: Maintain a work path and working on named paths should function as expected. 

I'm having the exact problem and did something and it started working again but couldn't figure it out what I did and now it's happening again. How do I make a working path?

I'm on Windows so I'm glad that it's happening to both platforms cause every time I have a problem my co-workers blame Windows.