Photoshop only showing mouse cursor

[Florian-R]

Hey there, 

I hope someone can help me with my issue, as even new installation of Photoshop was not helping. 

Whenever I work for a while in Photoshop the tools are disappearing. I do not mean the window, where I can choose the tools, I just get instead of a brush etc. only a mouse cursor. Changing the tool does not change anything, I keep seeing the cursor only. Scrolling and zooming does not work anymore. Luckily I can still save. 

When I close the file, I can re-open it and everything works as usual, I do not even have to re-start Photoshop to get it working again just open the saved file. 

The files (photos) are coming from light room as a smart object. 

Unfortunately I cannot allocate the problem to a certain action done by myself. 

It just happens by surprise. 

Thanks a lot for your ideas and solutions, as it is quite annoying, 

Florian

[melissapiccone]

Are you hitting the caps lock key? 

[Florian-R]

Hi Melissa,

Thanks for your reply. No I'm not.

I tried to observe it further and I believe most often it seems to happen when I press space to move around in the picture.

I use a Wacom instead of a mouse then to move around. 

[jjonesdigital]

so how did you get it working again? I use the space bar too, and mine does the same thing.

[smithdesign77]

I'd be curious too!

Same story: Masking with the brush tool, WACOM, lot usage of the space-key and suddenly it's like dead.
Yet I save, close the file and re-open … but I feel this is not the best solution.

[Nicholas5C71]

Same thing here!

Any solutions?

[marketings69107254]

Same situation here! Has anyone found the solution? The only way I can make it work again is to close Photoshop and reopen it. But it will not work again after a few times pressing the space. 

[marketings69107254]

Thanks to acharyapramod7

She found the solution. 

Try Edit -> Preference -> Tools -> uncheck "Enable flick panning"