Comments on: Fix A Broken Photoshop Without Re-Installing

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 15:31:23 +0000

Genius!!!! I have CS4 installed & just recently my blending options stopped working, was a really strange problem. You could open the dialog box, but you couln’t select any of the options.. I figured it was a bug so searched around until I found the post.

I just deleted my settings & bingo blending options are working again!!

Thank you very much!

By: Dr Rain

Dr Rain — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 16:28:13 +0000

I have PS CS5 Extended, my Brushes work totally wrong and totally disobey my comands. I have Windows XP, what shall I do? Read this tutorial but didn’t really get what I have to do after closing photoshop, and then pressing Ctrl+Alt+Shift… If you try to restart photoshop just the properties will appear.

By: Leonardo Nascimento

Leonardo Nascimento — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 15:53:42 +0000

what icon?

By: nafertiti

nafertiti — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 15:21:16 +0000

3D icon was disappeared from my photoshop cs4

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:59:09 +0000

You saved my life… My blending options had stopped function to a point that you could no longer slect them no matter what I did. I followed your advice and now the blending options work again (PC). Brilliant

By: Leó Nascimento

Leó Nascimento — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:00:16 +0000

Are you sure you’re using the brush tool and not the pencil tool.
switch between these two and see the result.
Bye!

By: Bill Addison

Bill Addison — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 18:57:55 +0000

You are an absolute legend! I had this exact same problem and was freaking out. Couldn’t find the answer anywhere until I searched “photoshop brush feather not working”. What a weird bug hey.

By: mambus

mambus — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:08:55 +0000

When I click these it brings up my Properties box? I have lost the shapes and need to find that. Any clues?
Photoshop Elements 7

By: mambus

mambus — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:00:21 +0000

what is the options button?

By: Anwar

Anwar — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:12:59 +0000

Hi Dear,

You really helped me a lot..Thanks so much for this a very powerful tip.

Regards..

By: Harold

Harold — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 01:34:38 +0000

Several of the Photoshop plug-ins were grayed out and I could not use them. Adobe suggested a serpiginous method to alleviate the problem which would have taken one to two hours. I tried your suggestion and miraculously I fixed the problem in 30 seconds.
I am indebted to you for all of the time you saved me.
Harold

By: Christie Bella

Christie Bella — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 01:44:22 +0000

Hey-
Not sure if someone already mentioned this- I haven’t read through all of the above comments- but if so, forgive me- but your problem with the pixelated brushes has nothing to do with the preferences file- what happened was that rather than having your brush tool selected, you actually had your pencil tool selected – (ya probably hit “b” one too many times & didn’t realize it)., Then, when you deleted your preferences file, all settings (not just the actual EDIT> PREFERENCES dialog box settings- but tool, action, color, palette, etc settings as well) reverted back to the default set up- this, in turn, reset your tools back to default- meaning that for all tools that share the same button & hotkey, rather than remembering your last tool used (which, in your case, was the pixelated-brush-looking pencil tool), the default tool of that set was instead displayed (ie, the non-piexelated brush tool) – which, in turn ended up inadvertantly- by proxy- solving your problem of the pixelated brush :)

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:13:30 +0000

Your brush tool glitch reminds me of an old video game code. lol
Anyhow, this is a really excellent read you put up. Thankyou so much for showing this. I keep on having trouble with adobe photoshop when I connect my monitor to my lap top (extend desktop) and this, as a temporary solution at least, has for some reason fixed the glitches I’ve been experiencing.

By: Hani

Hani — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:36:32 +0000

I intsalled CS-4 but the images in photoshop CS4 are totally distorted or some graphic problem, i dono wat is this prroblem and i dono how to fix this problem!!
plz help me if anyone know what is the problem!!

By: mel

mel — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:22:30 +0000

What a godsend – this just happpened to me (pixelated brushes) and thanks to you, within seconds it’s fixed.

By: Gary Callaghan

Gary Callaghan — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:00:18 +0000

Thanks for this very handy article, Couldn’t have came across it at a better time my color settings had went very strange and even the settings i used before were messed up. Thanks for this.

By: zsolt

zsolt — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:37:40 +0000

oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah, after a hard days night i have found this thread.
manymany thanks

By: flashtuchka

flashtuchka — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:41:43 +0000

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By: flashtuchka

flashtuchka — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:41:11 +0000

broke image link http://www.bittbox.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/reset_photoshop_preferences_5.jpg
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By: reza

reza — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:06:57 +0000

thanks buddy.. lately i couldn’t use the crop tools. when i did that the tool, it won’t crop the images, but it leaves the images to 1×1 px.
thanks to you.