I am working like mad on Fathers Day gifts before laundry, house cleaning and a bbq for my dad who's birthday is TODAY..
Anyway, I am in PSE and for some reason I cant get my mouse to change to the little cross thing. Its stuck at the hand grabby thing.. ( I am real technical).. Anyway, I have restarted and reloaded and the same thing..
Hmmm... the hand grabby thing is for a particular tool, when you switch to a different tool, the hand should change to something else. There are some shortcut keys for switching tools, but since I use CS3, I am not sure they'd work in PSE. There are also some options you can set in your workspace that might be over riding the hand grabby tool switching thing. Let me think... I think if you hold down Alt + Shift + Ctrl as PS is opening, you can re-set your preferences in a pop up window.
Someone said that they had the hand grabby thing problem with PS after they ran a Flash application in a full window, but she didn't say what she did to correct it. How un-useful!
In PSE, I think just hitting "v" will get you back to your move tool, which is basically the quickest way to reset your tools. I think the cross thingy is mostly for drawing, and until you switch tools, that's all it wants to do is draw.
The other thing that crossed my mind (though it really sounds kind of dumb) is whether or not it's possible that someone messed with some other settings and re-set your default mouse cursor? If PSE actually appears to be functioning properly, but your mouse won't change, perhaps it's the cursor setting. It's a stretch, but it's been known to happen.
I tried everything. I am the only one who uses my laptop (strictly hands off) and I would switch between move, crop, paintbrush and still the hand.. I will now try the v..ugh!
