How to get rid of Hand Tool in Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop

Did this happen to you, in special when you are working in same time with more heavy softwares and is need to switch between them, and your Photoshop or Illustrator are stuck on Hand Tool?

In other cases this is happen after you saw a flash in full screen, with Illustrator or Photoshop running. Even you will close your Illustrator the problem can remain. Doesn’t matter what tool you pick, your pointer will show the hand tool. The problem can be fixed just pressing the spacebar, and voila, no hand tool anymore. Spacebar, in fact, is a keyboard shortcut for hand / grab tool.

Published on: February 17th in Tutorials .
Post tags: adobe, error, fix, hand tool, illustrator, keyboard, photoshop, problem, shortcut, spacebar, tip

6 Comments

Travis
March 16, 2010

Thank you so much! I was looking at flashearth.com in full screen and when I switched over to illustrator the hand toole got stuck on. Simple fix, haha. Thanks again for the tip
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- reADactor
  March 16, 2010
  
  welcome
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Matthew
April 2, 2010

I run flash videos full screen on my secondary monitor (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwH_-C2-93E) and it always broke illustrator. I’m really happy to find a simple solution for fixing this problem. Thanks man.
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Justin
April 7, 2010

ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?!??! I’ve had this problem for forever and the only solution I found was rebooting! You are a God.
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patra
May 31, 2010

It works!! Thank you
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Robert
July 2, 2010

Thank you!!!!!! Thank you!!!!! I have resorted to rebooting several times to clear this. Googling the issue brings up lots of hard to navigate information.. This was surprisingly hard to find. I am so glad. Thx.
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