After endless hours wasted, I found the solution for an issue I've had using the Intous tablet with my Macbook Pro. The brush would get stuck and I couldn't hit Photoshop shortcuts between brush strokes. I went through the hassle of reinstalling all drivers, buying a new tablet and setting all my Photoshop settings back to default before finding the following simple 30-second fix. This issue pertains to people using Apple computers with Photoshop CS6 or CC and a Wacom Intous tablet. The fix is for the following issues:
Like many out there, I use Google and YouTube to fix all my issues. Despite the inordinate amount of time spent searching, this was the first time I couldn't find the answer on either of these platforms. I uninstalled and reinstalled all software related to Adobe and Wacom. Still didn't work. So I bought a new tablet. Still didn't work. My last resort was to call Wacom which fixed my issue quickly. I was told it is a known issue and they sent me a link to fix this. Why they couldn't send out an update to the software is beyond me.
Never happened to me, what happens and a lot is some lag, when for example i am using spot removal brushes with frequency separation. ALT + click does not work allways, and there is a delay of like 500ms when painting. Does anyone else experience this aswell?!
Oh, and Dani, yout last picture on 500px (Rachel - Natural Light) looks amazing!!
This sounds like the issue I have been having where I am brushing on a layer mask and press X to switch between black/white and nothing happens. I have to tap the pen off the screen somewhere in the menu or click the pen button to right click to snap photoshop out of it and then I can press the X shortcut or any other short cut. It goes from annoying to dangerous when you realize CMD+S never saved your work! Thanks for the link, I will try it today!
*** Edit: no it won't. I thought it would be a Wacom driver update at that link. It's an adobe software patch.... weird. I now also wonder why they just didn't update the software. Isn't that the glory of CC?
Shame dude, if only you asked this in the Fstoppers group, I would have been more than glad to help you. I had the exact same problem, and fixed it within an hour of looking. It must have been a month or so ago that I sorted it out...
Sometimes when I use the brush tool and increase / decrease size and paint, PS seems to freeze, but if I press on one of my layers, it paints a nice streak across the canvas. Hopefully this resolves the problem.
I am battling with this problem right now. Accept I am completely up to date on my software and still the key board does not work.
Or more accurately, sometimes it works, most of the time doesn't.
Anyone have input of this?
Stephen from the Photoshop team at Adobe here. This is a known issue from CS6 and the first version of CC, but it has been fixed in the latest version of Photoshop CC (2014.2). If anyone is still seeing this issue in the latest version of Photoshop, please contact me on Twitter (@strawbo) or respond to this comment.
Hello Stephen, I am still having issue. I am using the most current version of OS X El Capitan (10.11.5) and the most current version of Photoshop (Adobe Photoshop CC 2015.5). I have tried the patch and the issue still persists. Please advise.
Wow! I just spent hours trying to figure this out, re-installing both Photoshop and Wacom several times. Finally found this post with link. THANK YOU SO MUCH! phew!! Hope they fix this with the next update which is soon I hope. Can only imagine that there are several others out there with the same frustrating problem.
Thanks for posting this. I just bought a new iMac with El Cap and was happy to discover that Wacom had updated drivers for my old Intuos 3 tablet. Unfortunately, when I started using Photoshop CS6 I noticed I had problems with keyboard shortcuts like changing opacity on the stamp or eraser tools. When I switched back to the mouse everything was fine. So I thought I might have to buy a new tablet, but the plugin seems to have solved the problem.
I had this problem after updating to latest wacom driver & desktop center. This white window fix did not help in (tried CC2015 or 2015.5). Got an older version of the driver and the problem disappeared.
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