P: Layer opacity does not change while moving the slider.

I've found out what causes this problem in Photoshop Elements 14 on my Windows 10 computer and how to solve it.

 

When I've swapped left and right buttons on my Logitech mouse from the default Windows setting, the opacity slider does not show real-time adjustments..

 

This happens when I go to: Settings --> Control Panel --> Mouse then click on "Switch primary and secondary buttons." It also happens if I do the same thing by entering the Logitech Options program and click on the box to "Swap left and right buttons."

 

When I swap back to the normal left-right button configuration, the real-time opacity of the slider works.

 

(Switching back from the control panel mouse settings also resets the button settings in the Logitech Options program.)

 

Cheers!

 

~ Russ Loar

still happending on 21.2.2 and win 10
super frustrating and kills the fluidity of editing and micro adjustments. please adobe, why is this still happening?

I'm now using 21.2.0 on a PC and scrubby opacity is significantly improved but still not as smooth as it was before. It's incredibly disappointing when Adobe constantly touts "improvements" (to what?) while achieving record profits beyond $11B in 2019. Maybe just a little could be spent improving the product that Adobe keeps breaking.

Latest version made this much worse. Now it behaves quie erratical. Movin g slider to 0% doesnt make a layer invisible. It looks like about 50%. This is messing up my workflow totally.

Rolling back to an earlier version made my actions dissappear 😞

I agree. The latest version 21.1.1 does seem to "fix" the problem, but the layer opacity slider is quite sluggish, as if laboring to crunch too much math.

Yep... They definitely did something about it... But it's not as good as before... 

Yes, it's very annoying. Who would say this feature will be a problem for such a long time.

It seems to be kind of solved in the latest update but it doesnt work nearly as smooth as before.

Same here.
Works during transform but not when back out of it.
Very annoying.

Same here: Scrubby opacity does not update realtime - it previously worked fine. Also when using Hand tool to drag image/change position, image keeps snapping back to left side. This also used to work fine.

C'mon, Adobe!