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October 27, 2021
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Photoshop 2022 object selection not working

  • October 27, 2021
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Photoshop 2022 object selection not working, Hovering over object sesection icon allows subject to show selection area, but clicking on it does not produce a marching ants selection. After doing this, the photo is overlaid on the opening page of Photsop and basically freezes. Other areas in photoshop initially seem to work OK. I have a PC , Latest Windows 10, Nvida G Force gt 730, 32G RAM. HP envy Desktop750 545xt

Can anyone help me with this?

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Ron Gross
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November 4, 2022

I have used the object selection tool and it does seem to work.  The only "trick" I have found is to be very patient and wait for it to complete.  It often takes forever for PS to "find" the object you are hoping for.  Try waiting a bit, longer than you would like, and it might eventually return a selection.  At least that is how it usually works for me.  My PC is Windows 10, Core I7, 32GB RAM, no spectial graphics card.  When I did get impatient, I probably caused it to crash by pressing keys and getting frustrated, sometimes going to the task manager and killing it...probably not the right way to go.  I have been using PS since version 2 and over the years have seen PS get slower and slower to do things in spite of the much greater CPU/RAM power we have today.  I think with all the capabilities in present PS, they are using less efficient methods of programming (easier, more macro programming than old versions hard coded in assembler and PL1) and functions are therefore just slower than they used to be in the more basic versions of PS of the past.  I guess that's progress.  

Known Participant
October 27, 2022

Same problem here too. Watching a tutorial that shows it is so easy. Made sure all settings were correct, no luck. I have last weeks update  Frustrated

Known Participant
October 27, 2022

Have to admit I was defeated as well.  Believe it or not, I called Adobe and my call was answered in less than 5 minutes.  An extremely helpful individual tried loads of things (unsuccessfully) while having control of my computer and eventually decided my graphics board or caard or whatever it's called wasn't adequate for the new update.  Then my computer guy said my ancient computer couldn't handle any larger a card.  Now I have a new computer, a new card and about $1500 less in my pocket but it does work.

Known Participant
October 28, 2022

There is another posting "like" this one, hopefully they will see it too. When I contacted Adobe, they indeed were friendly, no complaints there and the retailer was pretty helpfull and both described the issue as being the graphics card. Now, just this past week, a friend had a professional come over to his home to pick-up the family laptop for some work and looked at mine while they were there. To make a long story short, he took one look at mine and said that maybe upgrading to Windows 11 might address the issue. We could not upgrade for some reason. I have NOT hear of this being the problem but as soon as I can, I'm going for it and will let the results be known. . . 

 

Good luck, I for one and not happy as I use Photoshop a lot. 

Participating Frequently
September 10, 2022

I have the same problem on my PC  but on my laptop it works albeit slowly. This facility is one of the best in the programme and to find it is not working in the 2022 update is very disappopinting.

I understand that there is a message that the graphics card is not compatable with the update,  BUT has any user paid for a new card, quite expensive, and is it now working?  I am prepared to spend about £150 if this works but !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Known Participant
September 21, 2022

I bought a new, custom Win 11 PC since my last post in this discussion. I was told that Ps completely fried my old GPU & its connection to the motherboard of my Win 10 desktop PC.

 

The tool now works on my new PC. AMD RX3800 XT, Intel i9 12th gen. Running latest rel. Ps 2022.

Known Participant
September 22, 2022

I'm finding myself in a similar situaton. PS has outgrown my 'recently' purchased laptop. So, after many attempts at getting this thing (PS) working again,  I may have to get a new laptop or give up on the application, which I do not want to do. Good Luck to you and everyone else! 

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December 7, 2021

I installed Ps 2022 today (Win 10 desktop PC - Ps 2022 rel. 23.0.2) and Object Selection is not working at all for me either.

 

I have the feature checked on in the Options Bar. I have the opacity, color to use for overlay, auto-refresh, etc. all set up from the options bar. I make the Object Selection Tool active in the toolbar. And, I wait for the spinny icon to stop spinning/processing.

 

The little gear in the options bar spins but I see no overlay when I do a cursor hover over objects after it stops. And, when I click on the icon box (options bar) that's supposed to show all the selected objects with an overlay none of my objects is covered by an overlay to highlight them.

 

If I use the Layer > Mask All Objects menu item it will create the stacked layers with masks for each of the objects on their own layers - even though it is exceedingly slow doing so. (With Ps 2022, Adobe seems to be nuking my AMD proecessor's use - when I tried the new neural filters Ps 2022 was caused AMD timeout error msgs (my drivers are current) so I turned off using GPU processor in Ps 2022. Would that have any impact on the Object Selection features not working? No one mentioned that above and they're having issues too).

 

Any expedited fixes would be greatly appreciated. My primary work is making composites. So this feature was going to be a tremendous time saver.

Known Participant
September 20, 2022

I can't get mine to work either despite all the recommendations.  If I go to a previous version of Photoshop it, of course, works but that's not an ideal solution.

Participant
November 20, 2021

I have the same exact problem. I've had support people remote into my computer on several occasions but nobody seems to be able to fix this. It seems to recognize the objects and I can hover over them and make them blue all day but can't actually select anything

 

Known Participant
November 20, 2021
There was an upgrade yesterday which I downloaded and the selections are
better but still no object selected via hovering over the icoc. Most
other things seem to work

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