PEN TOOL IS AUTOMATICALLY CREATING SHAPE LAYER IN PHOTOSHOP. I DON'T WANT SHAPE LAYER.

[rahma95]

Pen tool Horror. I have been using it without any problem untill now. I just want to pen tool around a certain object in an image, then crop it out. Once I click on my image with the pen tool, A NEW SHAPE LAYER APPEARS!! How do I make it go back to the way it was? I dont want a shape layer, I just want to work on my image. Help please. 

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[nikunj.m]

Hi there,

We're sorry about the trouble with Photoshop while using the pen tool. Please check the top panel in Photoshop to see if the option to create shape is selected in the drop down when you are using the pen tool. If it is, change that to path and that should help with your issue.

If the issue persists, you can try resetting the pen tool using the steps mentioned here: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/basic-troubleshooting.html#tool

Please let us know if it helps!

Regards,

Nikunj

[rahma95]

Thankyou. Unfortunately I cant find the top panel on my laptop. can you please advise how to get there? Thats how my photoshop looks like right now. 

[Guest]

Hi

Go to Window > Workspace > Reset Essentials, this will retore the Workspace to the default

[rahma95]

THANKYOUUUUUU IT WORKS. 

[c.pfaffenbichler]

Window > Options 

[rahma95]

I tried going to Windows and clicking Options. still I dont see that bar.

[c.pfaffenbichler]

The Options Bar is the primay place to look for unintened settings when a Tool’s behaviour seems baffling. 

[default0i31tuqbfzyc]

yeah well why would photoshop revert settings on its own without me telling it?  I had the inverse problem.  I never want my pen tool to create paths, I onlt want shapes and I've always only wanted shapes.  But today out of the blue I'm using the pen tool and it creates a path, and since I never make paths, I'm having to google the problem since it's been years since I had to troubleshoot the issue.  

[c.pfaffenbichler]

Photoshop Preferences can get corrupted, but I think »Shape« is the Pen Tool’s default Drawing Mode, so that would likely not be the cause here. (Though frankly I am not going to reset the Preferences now to make sure …) 

I can’t recall a keyboard shortcut to switch between Drawing Modes, so an accidental shortcut-hit doesn’t seem very likely either. 

Are there any people other than yourself with access to your computer? 

[remoran]

This is nonsense. I tried the workaround. It doesn't work. Complexification is at work here. I want a simple rectangle without creating a layer as I want to crop an image, nothing more. Simplify is hard, complexifiaction is easy. Think people, this is becoming a real drag.

[c.pfaffenbichler]

If you want to crop why use the Pen Tool instead of the Crop Tool? 

Which Tool are you using exactly? 

Could you please post screenshots with the pertinent Panels (Toolbar, Layers, Options Bar, Paths, …) visible? 

[c.pfaffenbichler]

@remoran , can you explain what the actual problem is that led you to post what seems like a curiously disconnected accusation of »Complexification«? 

The behaviour of the Pen Tool, as well as other Path-related Tools, does not seem to have been changed significantly recently.