P: Liquify brush cursor moves by itself

Hi all, the issue is back again anyone found a solution? It's super annoying that we can't use photoshop properly for at least few months now...

I've discovered a work-around (that has been working for me until I post about the work-around). Use the Rectangle Selection Tool to select the area you plan on liquifying and the cursor seems to operate as it normally should. But it still jumps around erratically before it finally settles down.

Well, the issue seems to have been reincarnated in 2023. The floating cursor in Liquify (and to a lesser extent in Camera Raw) is back. I'm on a brand new M3 2023 iMac. It happens as well on my older Macbook Air but not as offen. It's so bad in the former that it almost makes Liquify impossible to use.

I thought I was seeing things !! Yes this needs to be fixed asap !!

I've got the latest Photoshop (25.1.0), playing on a Macbook Pro M1 Max - and my cursor is all over the place when I use Liquify.  It won't stop moving.

Help!!!!

It still does the same since I updated it to the newest version 2024.

I should clarify, my when my cursor jumps every 3-4 clicks it is when using almost any tool in photoshop not just Liquify. It happens with brush tool, pen tool, band-aid, etc... whatever tool I am using. And this only happens with photoshop, none of my other adobe applications.

Hi Mohit,

I've updated to Photoshop 23.1 and I am still having the same issue in the liquidy tool. Additionaly every 3rd-4th click when I am using various tools (doesn't seem tool specific), my cursor will jump halfway across the image. This is especially frustrating because everytime it happens I have to hotkey "undo" to undo the damage whatever tool I was using just did to my image.

It's literally slowing down my process to the point of making it next to impossible to get anyting done. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling, freeing up substantial harddrive space on my Macbook Pro, but nothing seems to make it better. It all started when I upgraded to Photoshop 23.0 a few months ago, I have since upgraded to v23.1 in hopes that there would be a bug fix for these issues, but neither have been fixed. Disspointing since I rely on this product and have used it for over a decade, this is by far one of the worst bugs I've encountered.

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