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mandicreally
mandicreally
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October 30, 2018
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Photoshop 2019 - Delayed Actions, always a step behind.

  • October 30, 2018
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So ever since the 2019 update Photoshop on my desktop and my laptop is borderline unusable.  Many tools and adjustments simply do not apply, UNTIL you do something else.

So say I type out text.  The text doesn't appear, until I select another layer, then the text suddenly appears.  Or just now I applied a Stroke effect to some text, the stroke did not actually become visible until I moved to another layer, then back to the text layer.  This was happening to me a few days ago with many other actions also.  Such as "Undo".  I was erasing some stuff with the eraser tool (working fine), but slipped and went too far, so I hit Ctrl-Z.  Nothing happened.  Then I hit Ctrl-Z again, and suddenly it stepped backward twice.  I had to then do a Ctrl+Shift+Z to step forward one step.  So every single time I wanted to undo something, I had to undo TWICE, then Redo once. 

This doesn't seem to be everything, like I said the eraser tool works fine, as do paint brushes, however it is happening with a lot of different tools and elements in Photoshop. 

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      Bojan Živković11378569
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      Bojan Živković11378569Community Expert
      Community Expert
      November 22, 2024

      Can you post the content of Help > System Info? It seems to me that the problem is related to memory—either you have a small amount installed or you are running too many apps in the background. Another issue could be that the scratch disk is insufficient.

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      f.k.f
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      November 22, 2024

      I did try allowing more RAM, although the file I'm referring to was fairly small, 30MB or so, and my larger files do not have this issue. It really appeared "file-specific."

       

      And it was! I actually just figured out the problem...but it doesn't make any sense to me. I had clipped a hue/saturation mask to a folder with a set of several layers in it. Having this mask exist at all in my file created the delay I described. Turning the visibility of that layer off didn't fix the problem. I had to completely delete it...

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      f.k.f
      Participant
      November 22, 2024

      This is happening to me as well! Years later... Does anyone have a fix for this?

       

      The delay seems to only affect certain files. Like each file specifically becomes corrupted, rather than photoshop delaying every file it ever opens. But if I was lucky enough to save a whole other backup file, then the old file continues to work normally...until the "corruption" happens again, and suddenly anything I do (move/transform, undo, brush, text-edit, etc) is always delayed until another action is performed. (Not capital-A Action. I use it here to refer to any change done in photoshop.)

      kelseyh17160781
      kelseyh17160781
      Participant
      September 2, 2020

      Does anyone have a fix for this? Similar is happening with me, paintbrush is a step behind. I draw one place, nothing appears. Then when I draw in other place, the previous line I drew appears. Happens with eraser as well. 
      I have been working for 2hr and I have had to close and reopen Photoshop 5 times as this problem continues. 
      If it counts, I'm using a Wacom Cintiq 16 and I originally thought it was the tablet but it's only happening in photoshop. Very frustrating. 

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