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Photoshop - Cursor has turned into a hand

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ChrisB -  
 ambrebou -
Hello,

I have a small problem with Photoshop. I must have done something wrong, my cursor has turned into a hand. I can't do anything on my working files, no tool works on the layers. I can't change my cursor to get rid of this damn hand and be able to modify my working files...

Could you help me?

Thank you in advance,

Chris

10 answers

  1. Sa7or
     
    Hello,

    When you get stuck with the hand tool in PhotoShop CS4, the simplest solution is the following:

    Window menu => Workspace => Essentials (by default)

    Click and you're back in business.

    Best regards
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    1. sassouki
       
      Thank you, it works very well.
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    2. al31000
       
      Thank you, finally the solution to a recurring problem!
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    3. emmanuel_81
       
      THANK YOU, I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR MONTHS!
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    4. stb
       
      wow! I thought I had a bug in all my programs.

      But why did this happen? On programs that I didn't have problems with, I see that the contagion has affected my collection!

      Anyway SA7or, thank you very much.
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    5. ambrebou
       

      Hello, it's not working for me. Do you have another solution please? It's really frustrating :/ thanks!

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  2. Pedro
     
    It's simply the space bar that got stuck, press it again and it will come back!
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  3. benoiton
     
    For me, the problem was solved by simply pressing the SHIFT key.
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    1. gorti
       
      I don't know if there really is a solution; it's a bug in the software. For my part, it's the opening of Firefox that removed the hand tool for me. Good luck with Adobe.
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    2. Klouska
       
      magic your caps lock solution!
      that hand was driving me crazy and with just a simple little key.. whoosh, here we go again!
      Thank you !!!!!!
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  4. Toucau
     
    Hi,

    Please also pay attention to the caps lock... which has unintended effects when we want to use the tools...

    Toucau
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  6. kima
     
    il suffit aussi d'appuyer sur la touche espace tout simplement
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  7. linette
     
    for me too, it was enough to press the Shift key and it returned to normal like magic
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  8. rocache Posted messages 1541 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   337
     
    Hi Chris
    In the toolbar, you have selected the hand tool
    Select another one
    (to display the tools:
    Window > Show tools)

    Keep us updated Rocache
    Snow in November, Christmas in December
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  9. Chris
     
    Well, in the end, everything was resolved after turning the program off and on twice...

    But I don't think I selected the hand tool. I could select the other tools, but my cursor was always in the shape of a hand when I wanted to work on a layer...

    Anyway, the problem is solved, that's what matters!!

    Thanks anyway!

    Chris.
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  10. xJulian Posted messages 7 Status Member 11
     
    Hi, I had the same thing happen to me and it disappeared on the second restart of the program. Otherwise, I also hid and then showed the tools before it started working again.
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