Photoshop :: Whenever Select Any Tool / CS Crashes Altogether
May 6, 2013
I'm an aspiring YouTuber who uses Photoshop for its ability to make thumbnails for my videos. Recently, I went into Photoshop as always and whenever I select ANY tool, Photoshop crashes altogether.
I've been using PS 12.0 for a year without incident. Recently I installed Superstition beta and started experiencing crashes both in 13beta and 12. I can consistently reproduce a crash in CS5, Win7 SP1, x64, by opening an existing PSD and then switching to the Type tool. The crash occurs before I even get to see the type tool. I've replaced the prefs a million times using the CTRL+ALT+SHIFT on launch technique. Â I have not change type management (not using any font managers at this time). My nVidia drivers are up-to-date (dual 9800m GTX), my RAM is good.
I know this discussion title is a bit murky, but the problem is a bit odd. I have Photoshop CS6 v13.1.2. In this version, I will activate the Select Tool, check Auto-Select: Layer, check Show Transform Controls, and then while using the Select Tool I will drag to create a rectangle to select multiple layers with content within the specified area.Â
Unfortunately, this action only works when I begin the selection from outside of the canvas area. If started from within the canvas area, no rectangle will appear, it will show me a measurement of my selection size, and then no layers will be selected upon release.  This cannot be working as intended right? I mean multi-select dragging cannot be intended to only work when started outside of the canvas right? Is there some way to fix this issue? Is this a bug? See the images below for more information on this issue.
I remember being able to select anything on the canvas with my Quick Select tool in CS5.5 Photoshop Extended. Recently, making the switch to CC, the Quick Select tool will show my slection as I drag along the canvas, but once I release the mouse, the selection seems to be reduced to the visible pixels. I was intentionally trying to fill the transparent sections with my effects as well. Â Mind you, the magic wand will select transparent pixels just fine, but it also adds unintentional sections which is irritating. I should probably also pint out that I already looked into the "lock transparence" option in the layers, but I did not activate anything of the sort.
IWhen I select some areas of the drawing I have made with my tablet, the message "could not complete your request because of a program error" comes up and then the program shuts off.
I'm not sure at all what is going on, since it doesn't have to do with the settings of the wand (or does it? The error window doesn't really say much).
When I click the select tool, a brown selection type of rectangle appears in a particular area of the illustration, even though I have not clicked on the illustration yet. I assume it is some type of warning indication, but don't know what. P.S. It is draggable and scaleable - I can move it off the artboard. An example:
So everything is fine until I use the select tool, and then free transform a part of the image. Then my brush and eraser stop working until I save and restart the program.
Is there a way to make the color select tool not only select a specific color but related shades as well. I have a graphic that is mainly shades of gray but with black outlines and divisions as well as other colors mixed in. I want to shift all the shades of gray to shades of dark yellow without have to select each shade individually.
I can open Adobe Illustrator fine, but as soon as I select an object, before I release, the software crashes; if I'm lucky I can move the object, but before I release it, the software crashes.
I've browsed the other discussion threads with the same problem, but I am very confused as I have limited computer knowledge. I've used the font tool on CS5 before and there was no problem, but now when I use CS6 it either crashes or it lags so much that I have to force quit.
Currently using Mac 10.8.3 20in. display 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor.
The CS6 Beta version crashing when switching to the eyedropper tool, here; Â [URL]....... Â It's still doing the same thing with the release version. It seems having Color Burst RIP 6.1 running at the same time causes it.
When I apply liquify tool, Photoshop CS6 crashes each time! Running Windows XP 64-bit 4 GB Ram/ Intel HD i3 graphics card. Â Event viewer reports the following error: Â Event Type:ErrorEvent Source:Application ErrorEvent Category:NoneEvent ID:1000Date:10/18/2013Time:16:27:01User:N/AComputer:SX64PCDescription: Faulting application photoshop.exe, version 13.0.0.0, faulting module ig4icd64.dll, version 6.14.10.5394, fault address 0x0000000000ded2a0. Â For more information, see Support Center at [URL] ....
Data: 0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74  Applicat 0008: 69 6f 6e 20 46 61 69 6c  ion Fail 0010: 75 72 65 20 20 70 68 6f  ure pho 0018: 74 6f 73 68 6f 70 2e 65  toshop.e 0020: 78 65 20 31 33 2e 30 2e  xe 13.0. 0028: 30 2e 30 20 69 6e 20 69  0.0 in i 0030: 67 34 69 63 64 36 34 2e  g4icd64. 0038: 64 6c 6c 20 36 2e 31 34  dll 6.14 0040: 2e 31 30 2e 35 33 39 34  .10.5394 0048: 20 61 74 20 6f 66 66 73at offs0050: 65 74 20 30 30 30 30 30  et 00000 0058: 30 30 30 30 30 64 65 64  00000ded 0060: 32 61 30 0d 0a       2a0.. Â
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Everytime that I click on the text tool to use it, the program freezes up and Microsoft Windows pops up a message saying 'Adobe Photoshop has stopped working.' I've given in to just using Illustrator for my text, but am finding that I need in now in Photoshop. Anyone have any answers?? I'm getting frustrated??
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Every time I use the magic wand tool, Photoshop CS crashes. I tried resetting the program but it didn't work. I cannot find a patch for this anywhere. Its making photo editing very difficult! Is there a patch I can download anywhere?
I just installed CS6 last night on my laptop and I was super excited to use it..As I was about to edit a picture, I pressed the Ctrl+T... next thing you know, photoshop cs6 just crashes. My OS is Windows 8, photoshop cs6 64-bit, it's the latest version too!.
Photoshop crashes every time I try to use the Liquify tool. Fairly problematic. I should have the latest drivers, which eliminates what might otherwise be the most likely cause. This happened during beta as well, but I chalked it up to it being a beta version. Did not happen with CS5.5 or previous.   Adobe Photoshop Version: 13.0 (13.0 20120315.r.428 2012/03/15:21:00:00) x64 Operating System: Windows 7 64-bit Version: 6.1 Service Pack 1 System architecture: Intel CPU Family:6, Model:10, Stepping:7 with MMX, SSE Integer, SSE FP, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2 Physical processor count: 4 Processor speed: 3093 MHz Built-in memory: 8175 MB Free memory: 6282 MB Memory available to Photoshop: 7227 MB Memory used by Photoshop: 60 %
im on vista 32bit and my notebook video driver is intel 965 chipset ( i just updated my drivers) probem is when i enable my OPENGL in order to use the rotate canvas feature, crop tool crashes whenever i activate it. most of the tools work ok(haven tried all yet) but when i disable OpenGL, crop tool works fine. I need the rotate canvas feature & thus OPENGl enabled.. what can I do about the crop tool(and most probably some other tools) crashing on me? i already tried resetting & install/reisntall. .
So i hit the little "T" text tool, and i get the generic Windows 7 "This program has encountered a program and needs to close" error. I click out of the error box, and all my work disappears as well as any changed preferences and recently opened files. The same happens when i try to use Image> Adjustments>HDR Toning. Yay. And what's funny is BOTH errors display a fault module of "CoolType.dll." Â I have tried EVERYTHING that everyone has posted about on every computer-related forum that i could find. NOTHING has worked at all. I deleted every single font minus the system fonts, including anything mentioning them in the system registry. Tried new copy of the dll file, nothing. Reset Photoshop preferences, nothing. System restore failed. Uninstall/reinstall of entire Adobe Master Collection failed. Â Oh, and in the 32-bit version, HDR Toning works but the text tool gives me an error message that "something prevented the text engine from being initialized." And, well, i just don't want to use the 32-bit version.
I have been experiencing constant crashes to the desktop using a fresh install of CS6 while attempting to use the text tool. Â My other problem is that photoshop does not seem to detect my graphics card, it says "Photoshop has detected an error in your display driver" and I cannot access any of the GPU options. Â I have updated to the latest version of Photoshop. I have the latest drivers for my graphics card. Â My setup: Â 3570k 7950 8gb 1680x1050 + 1024x768 Windows 7 64bit