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January 4, 2021
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Whenever I try to stroke path using the pen tool, it switches to the eyedropper and freezes

Just as it says. I draw a path using the pen tool, right-click to stroke it. Rather than bringing up the "how do you want this stroked" box, it immediately switches to the eyedropper tool and won't let me leave the eyedropper tool, even after selecting a color or clicking on other tool bars. In effect, it freezes the application.

Other path options, such as fill path, don't trigger this. Just the stroke path option.

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Participant
January 3, 2024

A few months late but it appears to be a bug in Ps Beta. I opened Ps 2024 and it works perfectly. 

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Participant
May 8, 2025

I am super late to the party but here is what was happening to me and the same issue you had/have. I have 2 monitors (one is a cintiq) and it was off at the time. WHen I went to stroke the path the pop window was popping up on the cintiq and I never saw it. If you have 2 monitors, check it for the pop up window.

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Participant
October 18, 2023

Anyone have a fix for this? I use this tool every day and it just started doing this randomly. Can't figure out a workaround.

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Participant
January 3, 2024

A few months late but it appears to be a bug in Ps Beta. I opened Ps 2024 and it works perfectly. 

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ohkatiewells
Participant
January 20, 2021

I have the same bug!

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