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Alex Grant
Inspiring
February 1, 2023
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Panning (with spacebar) while making polygonal lasso selection in Photoshop is bugged

  • February 1, 2023
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In Photoshop, when trying to use the spacebar to pan while making a selection with the polygonal lasso, the spacebar does nothing. The pan does not work. Then if you try using the lasso again, or if you switch the mode to additive or subtractive selection, spacebar can again be used for panning.

 

I reproduced this a couple of times. Everytime I switch to another tool, or do anything else, for example in the layer settings, and then come back to the lasso, again the spacebar panning stops working.

 

The workaround at the moment is to just use the lasso once fictively and then deselect, and then start actually using it (and have pan available). This is very annoying 😞

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Correct answer Alex Grant

Hey Cory Shubert,

Thanks for the effort.

After it kept doing this with every file for a while I finally contacted support, they asked me to reinstall Photoshop.

That fixed it. I guess it might have been corrupt settings. It trully felt like a bug.

 

Basically everytime I decide to work on the Windows machine I curse myself for not doing it on the Mac... 🙂

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Alex Grant
Alex GrantAuthorCorrect answer
Inspiring
February 2, 2023

Hey Cory Shubert,

Thanks for the effort.

After it kept doing this with every file for a while I finally contacted support, they asked me to reinstall Photoshop.

That fixed it. I guess it might have been corrupt settings. It trully felt like a bug.

 

Basically everytime I decide to work on the Windows machine I curse myself for not doing it on the Mac... 🙂

CShubert
Community Manager
Community Manager
February 2, 2023

Hi @Alex Grant sorry to hear this.

 

Let's make sure we're in a default state and there are no stale settings somewhere: 

Restore your preferences using this manual method:  

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/preferences.html#Manually 

Does it work correctly? 

If that doesn't solve it, you can quit Photoshop and put the Settings folder back. 

 

 

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

 

Thank you,

Cory