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November 4, 2022
Question

Tools get stuck in the eyedropper

  • November 4, 2022
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Hello, since the latest builds of photoshop, when I change my tools it acts weirdly. I posted here that my tools are changing alone and people told me to "Go to Preference - Turn off "Spring-loaded Tool Shortcuts"", what I did, and it makes it waaaay better but I still had an issue: my tools get "stuck" in the eyedropper. I'm using the blending technique to draw so I'm constantly switching between the eyedropper tool and the brush tool, but regularly it stays in the eyedropper tool and that break my rhythm when I draw, I can't draw like that. So I get back into an older version of photoshop and the issue isn't here so I stayed like that. But now I really want my photoshop to be up to date so I'm writing here to have a solution to that so I can finally use the lasts version of photoshop. Thank you!

 

 

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PECourtejoie
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 4, 2022

Hello, it does not sound fun, could you do a screen recording of the issue?

please also post the contents of Photoshop's Help>System Info... menu, so that we get to know your OS, its version, the exact version of Photoshop you are running, the date of the GPU driver, etc.

Did you try to restore your preferences to the default using this manual method:
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/preferences.html#Manually it lets you keep a copy on the desktop that you can use to revert the process.