Comments on: Photoshop Stuck on Hand Tool/icon

By: Asuka

Asuka — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:54:46 +0000

Great tips. I never had that problem until today. I tried retarting but that didn’t help….It was the menus…Cheers!

By: CC

CC — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 04:57:52 +0000

I have had the same problem as well, at least 2 times.
Both times I was searching “hand tool photoshop” (thus finding this page), but after I clicked on to this page I checked back into Photoshop and it was fixed.

Must be one of those “do stuff and it will fix itself” things.

By: Prita

Prita — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:07:39 +0000

Thanks for the help.

By: Photoshop Helper

Photoshop Helper — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 03:41:58 +0000

I might be able to help, If you keep getting the “Hand Tool” On Photoshop CS4, All you really have to do is, Go to the top of the Program, Click “Edit” go down to “Preferences”, Then go to “General”. After you do that, Exit “General” and go back to your project, and the “Hand Tool” will be gone.

This is what I did to make it go away, and hey, It worked, Try it out.

By: dc

dc — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 03:43:31 +0000

thanks for the article. but like mr old skool and others above, when i went back to try the recommended fixes, it had resolved itself. maybe 3 minutes had passed?

my situation was i’ve used photoshop since v5 release and never saw this problem until cs3 (which i’ve been using for something over a year) today.

i had just captured a screenshot of a website to the Windows clipboard and pasted it in a new, transparent ps3 workspace.

who knows? but thanks for the page.

By: xamd404

xamd404 — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:31:56 +0000

theres an option on the top left of photoshop, just under “file”, that indicated the hand tool, click it and change it to anything else. It just gets bugged on it thats all.

By: A

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 05:13:22 +0000

Just happened to me in CS v8 on Windows XP, opened up task manager as found something like “Adobelmp.exe” open, can’t remember exact spelling because I swatted it and, ta-da, no more stuck hand.

Probably an Adobe update dialog box that was ghosting the program window, possibly related to opening a PDF file directly into Photoshop.

By: jimmy

jimmy — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:01:15 +0000

od, jsut experience it , 9th jan 09. solved itself nvm

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:10:30 +0000

well i just got this problem now, i read this post and as soon as i went back into the window to try some solutions it fixed itself o.O

By: Rich

Rich — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:38:29 +0000

In my case it was simply toggling the f-lock on my keyboard. It affected every component of creative suite 3 on windows.

By: Spike

Spike — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:20:00 +0000

Spacebar worked for me but why?

And is it a toggle or a bug? Wonky stuff.

By: Mr Old Skool

Mr Old Skool — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:59:59 +0000

I was having the same problem, googled it and ended up here, by the time I had read this and went back to try some of the solutions it was away!!

Strange!!

By: Anders

Anders — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 01:01:24 +0000

I’ve just read Lorian’s comment, and yes I was viewing YouTube when I started PS. I closed youtube while I googled for an answer to my problem. And when I tried one more time (this time without youtube) it worked.

Then I tried opening youtube again, resulting that my problem reappeared. I tried hitting space, and it worked.

So if you got this problem, try hitting space bar. Or close youtube (or whatever you are watching) and open PS one more time. But space bar is an easier solution.

Me happy, no more problemos (for so long)

By: Anders

Anders — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:37:40 +0000

LOL - I’ve just experienced the same problem myself, couple of minutes ago… I googled “stuck handtool cs4″ and got this page. I was reading some of the comments, and decided to try to reset the warning dialogs. But before I even tries it, guess what. When I minimized firefox and opened PS one more time, it decided to work! It kind of fixed itself
Merry Xmas

By: iGaG

iGaG — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:03:26 +0000

guys, im at CS4 how to fix it?

By: shiz0

shiz0 — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:03:27 +0000

Hey all…
I just encountered that Bug and found this Page via google.
For me it worked again just after restarting PS twice.
Quite a strange Bug…

By: omar

omar — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:32:31 +0000

wow, resetting warning dialogs worked for me too. must be it.

By: Patrik

Patrik — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 03:26:42 +0000

yep still happening in CS4 master suite. extremely annoying when you’ve got a deadline coming up in less than an hour. reboot ultimately solved it for me. how perfect that it happens across multiple adobe apps!

By: jill

jill — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 11:45:28 +0000

thanks Mike for having this page ~ i was having trouble with the hand tool. AND thank you EVERYONE for showing me how to fix it!!! =)

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 00:53:07 +0000

Thank you so much! Resetting the warnings worked great in CS4. How random. I’ve been using photoshop since 1996 and this is the first time I’ve ever had this happen.