Photoshop CS5 brush randomly becomes straight lines

[Guest]

Hi everyone,

I'm having a problem with my student edition version of photoshop CS5. For some unknown reason the brush tool randomly stops drawing lines that I command it to do (using my tablet pen) and will correct itself when I open another program (any program). Instead of drawing a curve, it will just draw a straight line and half the time not even for very far. I cant figure out for the life of me what is causing this problem. My laptop isnt on stickykeys or anything like that and I am running windows 7 64 bit with 8 gig of ram..

THANKYOU SO MUCH in advance if you can help a student in need of doing her homework!

Kerryanne

[Guest]

Answered this problem, it was a windows 7 issue with the generic hanvon tablet that I had. Check out the responses I made to others on this thread for more detail.

[Falrinth]

Nope its not exclusive to windows 7. Im on up to date Windows 10 with Wacom Intuos 4 PTK-840 with latest drivers, and NOT wireless.

I believe it m ight be related to those OpenGL improvements. It starts often right after i pan zoomed in and rotated canvas with any OpenGL profiles used. Cant disable them entirely cause i need to rotate the canvas.

My GTX970 is also up to date with drivers.

This issue is horrible. You never know when it happens, only after a while of struggling to get a proper brush stroke (impossible to get when the issue is on - while you wonder if its the pressure, color, brush size or other things that gives you bad effect) when you realise its THAT issue again. It drives me crazy.

Im on Photoshop CS5 64bit. 4x3,4Ghz CPU, 8 GB ram and GTX970, Windows 10

[Falrinth]

For me, changing the tablet's hotkey from "hand tool" to "spacebar" fixed the issue.

[Guest]

I join to the Straight Line Problem Club.

I used to work in an "All in One" Pc, with W10 and a Wacom Intuos , in these PC never gave me the problem. But recently I changed my pc. Same Wacom same OS and the problem shows now.

I think this is maybe a incompatibility issue, some hardware driver is giving me the problem (i think) 'cause my new pc were built by me

When appears, I skip this problem using Alt+Tab.

[PECourtejoie]

Hello, which photoshop version? which version of the Wacom Driver? Had you done the text files trick to have wintab?