Tuesday 17 April 2018

Fixing Windows Pen Tool Pan Glitch For Photoshop


Hey everyone!

So the past few days have been pretty stressful, as after my Windows PC updated, my pen tool in Photoshop CC would constantly pan the page instead of drawing a line. With multiple book deadlines coming up, and Photoshop completely unusable for digital drawing, it wasn't exactly great timing!

I trawled the internet for apparent fixes, spoke to both Microsoft and Adobe, and found a huge amount of conflicting information on forums and help centres "add this file to this folder", "roll back the update"...it was a bog of information, so after some serious trawling, I wanted to share the way I fixed it in a few clear steps to help any other digital artists.

To fix the Window's Ink pen tool pan glitch for Photoshop:

1 - In your computer's search bar type the letters ' cmd '

2 - Right click on the 'Command Prompt' app and select 'Run As Administrator'

3 - On the black and white text input box type: 

reg add HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Pen /v LegacyPenInteractionModel /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f

4 - Press Enter

5 - Test in Photoshop (it worked for me straight away), or restart your computer.

That should hopefully fix it! I'm finally back to illustrating, and I'm relieved to see I haven't lost pressure sensitivity with my pen (as some of the other fixes mentioned might happen). 

It is pretty disappointing to read Microsoft's statements on the issue, which seems to completely gloss over the fact that an awful lot of people use pen input as professional creatives and not just to pan around web pages...but hopefully with these fixes we'll all be back on track creating amazing digital artwork!

You can find this fix on Microsoft's answer page here.

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