: Photoshop CS5: Text cursor has disappeared The weirdest thing is happening. My coworker noticed his blinking text cursor doesn't appear anymore, no matter where he selects/creates text. Even weirder?

@Cofer715

in all Adobe Photo Shop Versions, its works 100%, because it is real rule.
when selecting TEXT tool, then on menu baar there is all TEXT options shown, in that, there is a tab "T" ,with this a little triangle click at triangle arrow mark and drop down list will appear, in drop down list click on
"Reset All tools". then problem solved.

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@Lee3735518

I had this happen recently and I discovered that the image in question somehow had its resolution set to 1 pixel/inch (under Image > Image Size > Resolution field).

Once I changed the resolution to something higher, I could again see my text cursor.

What was happening was that I was selecting my text tool and clicking in the image to try and insert text and all I could see was a small dot where the text layer should have been. A new text layer was appearing in the layers menu but the text was not visible in the image itself (no visible cursor, no visible text).

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@Si6392903

A bit of googling seems to show that I should trash my settings file but I'm afraid i'll lose all my custom settings.


If this is the case, there likely isn't much that anyone can do for you. If it turns out that one of your custom settings is triggering some odd quirk in Photoshop's rendering engine, well, that setting has to go if you want your cursor back - and there's no way that people across the internet can trouble-shoot that problem for you.

Honestly, trashing the prefs isn't so bad. It's not unheard-of for people to uninstall/reinstall the entire Creative Suite when Photoshop misbehaves. If you can get out of the jam for the small price of default preferences, you're fortunate.

You may also want to peruse the answers on another Photoshop-bug-related question: graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/2376/cant-see-the-canvas-its-transparent
At the end of the day, this sounds like a pure hardware or configuration bug - file a bug report if you feel so inclined.

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