shift makes cursor jump

[LeslieA]

I do a lot of cartoony type visual aids. I have been scanning old ones and cleaning them up with Elements 7 (Vista 64). Something that happens now that never happened before is when I shift-click to draw a line, the picture jumps to some other extreme point on the page. Is this a Vista problem or a PSE7 problem? I spend a ton of time backing up to where I am working. Can this be turned off? I dread working with the page jumping around like that.
LeslieA

[ukgaurav]

Can you please describe in steps what you are trying to do?
-Garry

[LeslieA]

When I scan up the cartoon character, (hand drawn years ago) the black lines are sketchy so I go over them with the pen. They are too small to use the Wacom so I click with the pen, then shft+click along the line to fill it in. I have been doing this since I started using PSE when 4 just came out. Now in 7 if I'm following the line up, when I shift+click to draw the line, it shoots the picture to the top of the page. I have to move the picture back into position and try again but each time it moves the picture to some other point on the page.
LeslieA

[Byron Gale]

LeslieA,

Have you updated your Wacom driver (http://www.wacom.com/productsupport/select.cfm) to see if that helps?

Barring that, does the behavior remain the same if you create a new document from scratch, and try to draw using the same method?

Byron

[LeslieA]

I am not using the Wacom at all. I used the wrong term before. I am using the brush tool and yes, it still does it with a new document. I am zoomed in fairly close.
LeslieA.

[Byron Gale]

OK - I'll re-state to make sure I've got it...

You are zoomed into an image. Using your mouse, you click once with the brush tool to paint a dot, and set a starting point. You hold SHIFT, and click a second point because you want to draw a straight line between the two points. When you make the SHIFT-click, your image unexpectedly scrolls a large distance so that you can no longer see the area where you were working.

Questions:

- Is the straight line drawn as you expected between the two points, or does it get drawn past your SHIFT-click spot all the way to your new viewed area?

- Does the same thing happen when you do the SHIFT-click using the Pencil tool? Or the Lasso tool?

- If you are NOT zoomed in, does it still do this?

- Does changing brush tips do anything differently? Have you altered the brush dynamics in any way? Have you tried resetting the brush tool?

[LeslieA]

You are zoomed into an image. Using your mouse, you click once with the brush tool to paint a dot, and set a starting point. You hold SHIFT, and click a second point because you want to draw a straight line between the two points. When you make the SHIFT-click, your image unexpectedly scrolls a large distance so that you can no longer see the area where you were working. This is exactly right

Questions:

- Is the straight line drawn as you expected between the two points, or does it get drawn past your SHIFT-click spot all the way to your new viewed area? The line stays within the area I click but the image shifts

- Does the same thing happen when you do the SHIFT-click using the Pencil tool? Or the Lasso tool? I haven't tried this but I will.

- If you are NOT zoomed in, does it still do this? No, but I can't see what I'm doing very well.

- Does changing brush tips do anything differently? Have you altered the brush dynamics in any way? Have you tried resetting the brush tool?I have not altered the brush at all and didn't think of resetting the brush. Although I really don't make changes to the brushes very much