I don’t think I’d know how to write an article on bizarre PS behavior. I don’t run into that stuff much (other than unexpected crashes), but even if I did, I don’t know that I would know how to fix it! It’s possible that you need to update or patch things like your OS or PS itself. If you’re using an older version of PS on a newer OS, like PS 7 on Vista, I wouldn’t be surprised at many compatibility issues arising. But you’re right, it could bring up good discussions and hopefully some solutions!

I asked about this in the Adobe Support Forums and they had no idea what was happening. I finally had to reinstall PS to get it to work again.

I’m sure a lot of people have dealt with bizarre PS behavior, but I seem to deal with it more than others. Below is just a few of the wonky things my PS program does…

1. When I am zoomed in close on a document and using the brush or eraser the program will just close – goodbye, see ya! No warnings or anything.

2. Sometimes when I double click on a layer to bring up the styles the program will either freeze or I’ll get several instances of Photoshop Help opening up in the browser.

3. Using the file browser can cause the program to freeze and often I’ll have to shut down my computer to get back to normal. This is odd because I have an Intel Quad CPU and 4Gigs of RAM. Go figure.

4. Quite often when I am working on a file I will get a warning box that says “Could not complete your request because of a program error.” This happens quite a lot. I cannot even save my file when this happens so I have learned to save often.

I’m sure if you wrote about this you’d get some good discussion going. Maybe even solve a few of these psychotic issues.
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