Bump sound - Fill mask

[Giddy_kay15A9]

Pure gramatical: Are there spelling mistakes in this?
Please correct, but keep the same words.

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When I'm working wih adjustement layers, I always make a rough selection (mostly lasso tool) for the part I will be working on.
Then I fill the mask completly black (fore-or background color, depending what is what (Cmd-D)
And when the mask is black I do the finer painting in of the mask in a white brush.

65% of the time I get the 'Bump' sound, so Photoshop can not exectute my command. (To fill the mask black). 
...Because there is something selected for typing, somewhere!?
 (Either a hue/saturation value, a Color balance value, or whatever that automaticaly selects the parameter value of that adjustement layer. 

I can override this by switching from one tool to another.
Or by switching to another program on my comuter, not Photoshop. 

But this is SO-VERY-annoying, and I loose time.

Is there a solution to this please??

It's the same problem in Photoshop Beta as in Photoshop v27.0.
I mostly work in Beta, and 1 or 2 versions ago the problem seemed better. But it is back.

Please assist if you know how to solve this? 
Thank you very much 🙏

Ps: I have never deleted my preferences because I’m scared of loosing all the prefereces that I build up and finetuned over the years. Maybe this is a solution?
If so, how exactly do I do this without the risk of loosing any of the settings?

[Giddy_kay15A9]

- Minus the ChatGPT grammar check 🙈 

[CShubert]

Hi @Giddy_kay15A9 make sure you are on the latest Ps Beta:  Adobe Photoshop Version: 27.2.0 20251123.m.3307 6fe705b arm64 (beta, PublicBeta)

If you drag your preference folder to your desktop and restart Ps Beta, you will not override anything and you can see if the issue is still there or gone.  If it is gone you have a corrupt preference someone in the folder. If it is still there then it would be some other issue.  You can always move your original preference folder back after you try this to retail your settings.

1. Try resetting Prefs for the Beta:
/Users/yourname/Library/Preferences/ Photoshop Beta Settings (Mac Ventura)
/Users/yourname/Library/Preferences/Adobe\ Photoshop\ \(Beta\)\ Settings (Mac)


C:\Users\user name\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop (Beta)\Adobe Photoshop (Beta) Settings

Launch BETA Photoshop While Pressing The Keyboard Shortcut
With Photoshop closed, press and hold Shift+Ctrl+Alt (Win) / Shift+Command+Option (Mac) on your keyboard and then Launch Photoshop the way you normally would.
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/preferences.html#Manually 

2. It may help if we could see your Photoshop beta System Info. Launch Photoshop beta, and select Help >System Info...and copy/paste the text in a reply.  

Thanks,

Cory - Photoshop Product Manager

[Giddy_kay15A9]

Hi Cory,

Thanks for your reply.
I have this issue for quite some time already so I think it must be the preferences. 
I will try the steps you explained.

Just a question: "Launch BETA Photoshop While Pressing The Keyboard Shortcut"
What shortcut do you mean please?


Thank you,
Katty

[jane-e]

Just a question: "Launch BETA Photoshop While Pressing The Keyboard Shortcut"
What shortcut do you mean please?

By @Giddy_kay15A9

See the next line (starting with "With Photoshop closed...) after the line you quoted:

"Launch BETA Photoshop While Pressing The Keyboard Shortcut
"With Photoshop closed, press and hold Shift+Ctrl+Alt (Win) / Shift+Command+Option (Mac) on your keyboard and then Launch Photoshop the way you normally would.
"https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/preferences.html#Manually "

Jane

[CShubert]

Hi @Giddy_kay15A9 

You can also use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + K (Windows) or Command + K (macOS).

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/desktop/get-started/settings-and-preferences/adjust-preferences.ht...

Thanks,

Cory - Photoshop Product Manager

[Pete.Green · Accepted solution]

@Giddy_kay15A9 ,

Just might have figured this one out -- I think Auto-Select Parameter is likely the culprit that's causing the unwanted behavior for you. 

At some point I'm assuming you may have enabled the Auto-Select Parameter option that's available in the Properties panel flyout menu. I believe it's also sticky across adjustment layers.

Disable/uncheck that and let us know if you still have the same trouble!

Regards,

PG 

[Giddy_kay15A9]

My God. Can it be this simple? 🙂 
I have never seen this setting.

I just turned it off and it seemd to be ok, for now... !

Thank you so much Pete and Cory!! 🙂 

[CShubert]

Yea! Glad that Pete was able to sort this out... be sure to make sure you do this on both Ps Beta and release version.

Thanks,

Cory - Photoshop Product Manager

[Pete.Green]

Good deal, yeah I'm about 95% sure that's what was causing the issue since the first parameter was being auto-selected and "stealing" your cmd+backspace shortcut. With it disabled you should be good to go! Wahoo!

[Giddy_kay15A9]

Very happy with this!! 🙂 Wahoo!