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zBoson
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April 1, 2011
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Photoshop Bug: Sliders getting stuck to mouse after release (Mac OS)

  • April 1, 2011
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When dragging various sliders in Photoshop CS5, very often these sliders get "stuck" and move with the mouse even though you have released the mouse. Say you are dragging a slider to set the brush opacity to 50%. When you have set it to 50%, you release the mouse and move it away from the slider, only to find that the opacity still increases or decreases as you move your mouse. You have to click again to fix this, but then of course you have to go back and do it again.

Below is a small illustration (I can't take a screenshot of my mouse) of an example of when this happens:

  • This happens to me around once every 5 times I use a slider, i.e. extremely often. As you can imagine, it's very annoying and frustrating.
  • I use a Wacom Bamboo Fun tablet, and I never use Photoshop without it so I cannot confirm whether this bug happens with a mouse or just the tablet.
  • It doesn't just happen like on the above illustration, but also with any slider such as those in Adjustment Layers and Filters.
  • The bug does not happen when using tools on the canvas (thankfully). So the Brush tool, and every other tool, works fine and never gets "stuck".
  • I have the latest version of Photoshop CS5.
  • This is a bug that has always been in CS5 since the first version, and it has not been in previous versions of Photoshop.

Does anyone else have this issue? Anyone else with a Tablet?

I know there are large amounts of similar, extremely annoying bugs in CS5, but this one is just driving me crazy.

Late 2008 15" MacBook Pro

OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.7 (but the problem has existed way before 10.6.7)

Photoshop CS5 version 12.0.2

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      Correct answer Chris Cox

      Have you installed the 10.6.7 update? (it fixes some OS event handling bugs).

      Do you have any third party plugins installed? If so, try disabling them. (because some buggy plugins are known to eat/mangle events)

      If CS5 is running slowly for you, then something is wrong with your system -- it could be the OS, or a third party plugin.

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      Anonymous
      April 11, 2011

      FTR, to clarify the exact behavior I'm experiencing:

      When I open a file in PS-CS5, I can, for example, click on an eyeball in the layers palette, drag down, and have all the other eyeballs turn off.  However, on my second click (meaning, if I click on a place where an eyeball used to be to turn the layer visibility back on), the lag kicks in.  From that point forward… everything is click… wait… wait… ok.. I can click again… wait… wait…  etc.  It makes it impossible to build up any sort of working rhythm, and it totally drains creative energy.  My mind is 10-steps ahead of my hands already… and now I have to wait a second or two between every click of the mouse. Ugh.

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      Anonymous
      April 10, 2011

      I have a similar problem, although I've noticed it more with items in the Layers palette.  (e.g.  I click on a layer, then move my mouse away—only to discover that Photoshop is still "holding" on to that layer).  I wind up accidentally moving layers around a lot… and it's very, very, very frustrating.  I have the latest versions of Snow Leopard and Photoshop CS5 on my 8-core Mac Pro with 24 GB of RAM.  Photoshop (and the system) are both running from an SSD… and my scratch drives have hundreds of GB of free space.

      I love Adobe software… but Photoshop CS5 has been headache after headache for me.  I'd be more understanding if I wasn't using such a powerful machine… but with this system, I should be flying—not crawling.

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      zBosonAuthor
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      April 10, 2011

      Yes, I also have the problem when dragging layers. Do you use a graphics tablet by any chance? If yes, does the problem only happen with the tablet, or also with the mouse? I'm trying to figure out why more people aren't reporting this issue, as it really seems like a bug in Photoshop, so everyone should have the same problem. And it's so annoying that I would expect lots of angry people everywhere, but it doesn't seem to be the case.

        Chris Cox
        Chris Cox
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        April 10, 2011

        I'm trying to figure out why more people aren't reporting this issue,

        Because so far only 2 people seem to have seen your particular issue.

        If others aren't complaining, then they probably aren't seeing it - which means it is most likely something specific to your system.

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