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My brush/pencil tool isn't working in Photoshop CS5...when I try and use it it just makes a dot and doesn't allow me to draw a continuous line...
rossiam wrote:
I may have stumbled upon a solution.I was just fooling around with photoshop when suddenly my brushed tool stopped working.I just so happened to look down at my keyboard and noticed the caps lock button was on.I turned it off and my brush tool started working again.I hope this helps.
Just to clarify that, the annoying Caps Lock gotcha that I think every Photoshop® user falls foul of at least once, only affects the brush cursor (turning it into the cross hairs cursor) touching do
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should also mention that the mouse works fine doing all the things
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Brush presets tip shape, unclick dual brush.
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I just experienced the exact same problem and after trying svereal of the solutions offered below without success, quitting and re-opening Photoshop fixed it. Super annoying.
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my pen quit working for changing tools: brush, lasso, marquee. I tired alla the above with no help. but I figured it out and I forgot to change the pen dos when clickijg. top one was set to eraser, changed it to left click and it is working as it should be.
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Set "Mode" to "Normal"