Re: [Gimp-user] Drawing tools stopped working all of a sudden

[Ofnuts <ofnuts laposte net>]

On 05/11/2013 01:56 PM, Retri wrote:
> Hello everyone. First and foremost a disclaimer: english isn't my mother tongue
> and I'm using GIMP in my own language so the tools names translation might not
> be 100% accurate.
>
> Also, I hope I haven't posted in the wrong section of the forum, if so, I
> apologize.
>
> Been using GIMP (2.8 and just switched to the latest one) for a while now, it's
> been nearly a year on this PC (Windows 7 64 bit, relatively recent hardware, 8
> Gb of RAM, etc.) and it's worked smoothly up until a couple of days ago when it
> stopped working as intended all of a sudden for some reason.
>
> Whether I use my Wacom tablet or the mouse none of the tools that normally allow
> you to draw (pencil, brush, airbrush, etc.) work anymore (cropping, distorting
> the image and the likes work fine though), doesn't matter if it's a brand new
> document or an old file.
>
> The funny thing is that when I go to the "Edit" menu it'll allow me to rollback
> and undo whatever I did with the aforementioned tools, even though there's no
> trace of it on the empty canvas itself.
>
> I tried to uninstall and install the software back but it didn't do the trick.
>
> This is really irking me as I'm working on an illustration that is due in a week
> and I basically had to stop working on it altogether because I haven't been able
> to get rid of this problem (also I can't seem to find anything about this
> specific issue on the net).
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated at this point. If you need more info just
> let me know and I'll provide it asap.
>
> Thanks in advance.

My usual check list; 
http://gimpforums.com/thread-when-suddenly-nothing-seems-to-work-anymore

Is the problem on all images or only on one image? If on one image, it's 
more likely a selection or active later problem, otherwise it more 
likely some tool setting.

Reinstalling Gimp is usually not mandated and pretty much useless. If 
you can't find the tool setting that went sour you have better rename 
your Gimp profile to have Gimp restart with the defaults 
(http://gimpforums.com/thread-what-is-my-gimp-profile-and-where-do-i-find-it).