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Can't drag the canvas while using Lasso Tool or Magnetic Lasso Tool and pressing Spacebar

Community Beginner ,
Jan 18, 2021 Jan 18, 2021

So, I'm used do make a selection using the Lasso Tool with the image zoomed in and I hold spacebar to drag the canvas while selecting more parts of the image. But recently, i noticed that this doesn't work anymore. While I'm making a selection if I hold spacebar nothing happens. The canvas doesn't move and the Lasso Tool continues to select. Only when I take the pen (I use a wacom tablet) off the table, the hand tool appears.

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Community Expert , Jan 18, 2021 Jan 18, 2021

If you use a Wacom Tablet and use WinTab application interface you will have this issue. If you switch to using Windows INK interface you will not have this issue but you will have other INK issues with feedback Icon will be displayed on screen when modifier keys are used ans ink performance lags more than Wintab.

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Community Expert ,
Jan 18, 2021 Jan 18, 2021

I'm getting the same thing. I rarely use the lasso tool, and if I do, I use the polygon one. You can post the bug at:

https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family

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Community Beginner ,
Jan 18, 2021 Jan 18, 2021

Yeah, since with the polygon one you can click and then drag after, this problem doesn't happen to me.

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Community Expert ,
Jan 18, 2021 Jan 18, 2021

The lasso tool just frustrates me, as it's so easy to mess up. As I mentioned the polygon lasso tool or the pen tool are what I use to make selections.

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Community Expert ,
Jan 18, 2021 Jan 18, 2021

If you use a Wacom Tablet and use WinTab application interface you will have this issue. If you switch to using Windows INK interface you will not have this issue but you will have other INK issues with feedback Icon will be displayed on screen when modifier keys are used ans ink performance lags more than Wintab.

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Community Beginner ,
Jan 18, 2021 Jan 18, 2021

Ohh, I see. Recently I followed a tutorial on how to disable windows ink and keep the pen pressure through a .txt file command. I just undid what i had done and now it's all normal. Thanks! But... how do I disable windows ink, keep the pen pressure and don't have this lasso tool/hand tool problem?

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Community Expert ,
Jan 18, 2021 Jan 18, 2021

If you want  to  be able to pan with the space bar when using the lasso tool you need to  configure Photoshop and your Wacom tablet to use INK 

PenConfig.jpg

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New Here ,
Jan 21, 2021 Jan 21, 2021

Excellent, Thx so much for your effort. I had the same issue and could fix it with your advise👍

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Explorer ,
Nov 29, 2024 Nov 29, 2024

I can't use the space bar to pan while in the process of using the magnetic lasso tool.  

 

This is a bug that seems to happen with annoying regularity with major updates (latest V26.0)

 

The thing is it doesn't happen every time.  I spend a lot of time zoomed in on large photos using the magnetic tool to select areas, so need to pan around to complete the selection.  At the moment roughly 75% of the time it doesn't work, the other times it does.  The problem doesn't seem to have anything to do with the number of files open, system performance etc.

 

 

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Enthusiast ,
May 27, 2025 May 27, 2025
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This bug has been in Photoshop since WinInk became the main tablet driver. When using Wacom tablet and hit  "Escape" and "space" while making a lasso tool selection will not work (space works some times). So you cannot Scrub/pan the canvas or cancel the selection. When working with a mouse it works. This is on a PC with windows 11 using a Wacom Cintiq Display. 

PS! I have reported this bug a while back, but Adobe never answered or aknowledged the bug, so I'm trying again.  

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