Stroker

This is one of my favorite subjects. Take a trip to the Asylum FAQWiki to get a feel for it:
PS Stupid Mistakes

Colour Picker dialoge thing. You know, a big square of colours on the left and a bunch of radio buttons on the right. Actually, some people aren't aware of the radio buttons and are left wondering why the colours in the big square are funky. Know what I mean?

Another good one is the Foreground/Background thing. When you select a colour from the canvas and it goes into the background instead of the foreground. I know this can be fixed from the Colour palette, but I think I recently heard that there is a shortcut. I think something like ctrl + d or shift + d or something.

Have you encountered a stupid mistake lately?
What you got?
Hit me!

Blinky2004

My biggest goof up...

...is that i tend to forget i have an active selection going, but it's hidden. So when i try to move the layer contents or apply a filter to the entire layer... i get messed up by the selection that's hidden.

DOH! [doh]

gymmie

Suddenly, stuff in the menus are greyed out! And I can't even save the file! Something's wrong with my Photoshop!

Duh. I had the Type tool selected. [confused]

See my sig :B

BlueMonster

Nice one Stroker! [righton]

Making a screenshot of the layers palette and wondering later on why nothing happens when you click on it [confused]

But my #1 is CTRL+H... I banged my head a few times because of that! [bustagut]

Rick

One time I sent an Email to our recepionist, it was just a picture of a Windows dialoge box that said "click here to close this Window"

I bet she spent 10 minutes clicking on the stupid thing before I went and told her [bustagut] [bustagut] [bustagut] [bustagut]

huma

You're evil, Rick!
[size=7px]I knew there was a reason I liked you.[/size] [shhh]

I did something similar by adjusting my co-worker's text color to white on their word processing program. They must have spent 10 minutes fiddling with the keyboard thinking it was broken.

Favorite stupid PS trick? Going to mask something and painting the layer instead of the mask. [doh]

gymmie

Moth, I don't know how many times I've pulled that one! Thank God for the History palette!

Hercules

Oh, Stroker I collect them! [bustagut] and this one is a winner:
going to do something and PS is not respoding.. the blanding modes are highlight in the Layers palette.

kiwi

Yep thats my one to Mark ,I find also I cant move anything at all and theres a tiny litttle a piece of active selection happening.



Another of mine is forgetting I have inversed a selection and having a hissy because my paint brush wont work...[stuned]



And all of the above as well

Bacardi

1/ trying to stitch two scans of something too big to scan in one time, setting different blend mode and then trying to nudge with arrow keys, only to get a quick trip through the blend modes...

2/ being on a non-English keyboard, I can only use the brush size shortcuts when I change to English. But then most of the keys are changed so that to get Ctrl+Z I have to press Ctrl+W, Ctrl+A means Ctrl+Q and vice-versa. etcetcetc...

3/ When on the mac (G4, OS9etc, where I can use that A3 scanner), double clicking the workspace to open a new doc. Then when back home on the pc, throwing the shortcut to my CDBurner in the dustbin.

etcetcetc...

The worst ever was when a friend of mine needed a HDD urgently, and it was weekend. As always. Shops were closed. So I took my second HDD (I had a perfect and complete backup of it. of course), installed it in his pc, fdisk-ed, formatted, installed her Win98 on it, had a laugh...and, back home, I realised I had taken my first hdd, the active one with all my apps, mail, favourites, even several bought codes and serials, etc. I got so angry that I started laughing as, finally, it's only ones and zeros, andI had no one to blame but my desire to make a good impression on her... [innocent]

The funniest one for me is that, when someone calls me on the phone, I very often start with something like " Buckingham Palace, commander Heseltine speaking. What can I do for you?" or some other silly joke.

Rick and Moth: yours are memorized!!!