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Photoshop problem, text related

ItalianMike's picture

I'm having a very weird issue with Photoshop, and I have no clue how it began or how to make it end. Whenever I try to create some text, I select the text tool, and make a box on the canvas to write the text in. For some reason, the text cusor appears within one of the resizing boxes. I circled it on the image below:

Anything I type does not appear, regardless of font size, color, or anything else I have tried. However the layer does take on the name of what ever text I might have entered.

Can anyone help me with this. I have no clue what to do, aside from scrapping Photoshop and reinstalling it.

Flub-Dub's picture

the picture u uploaded does

the picture u uploaded does not work for some reason.
anyway, all i can think of
is hold alt+ctrl+shift just right after you start photoshop.
its a fast push, but you can make it ;)

if you're on pc it will reset the photoshop preferences file so it should start like a fresh install, im not sure the same works on mac.
try it, let us know.

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BlindRain's picture

that doesn't fix the issue

that doesn't fix the issue I'm having the same problem i think maybe it was from one of the updates for CS3

natobasso's picture

My gut reaction whenever

My gut reaction whenever photoshop craps out like this is to shut it down and restart the computer.

If that doesn't work, you may need to trash the photoshop preference and plist files, thereby resetting your photoshop to factory settings. Make sure to save your actions before doing this.

Have you also repaired permissions?

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jHouse's picture

I hate text in photoshop.

I hate text in photoshop. The text box is shite so I tend to just click once and type. This is ok for small sentences but when it comes to line breaks its a nightmare!

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natobasso's picture

Agreed. And why not just do

Agreed. And why not just do the text in InDesign and get the benefit of having fonts instead of bitmapped fonts which don't print nearly as well?

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