I had a little problem with Photoshop today I was working on a title image for Sharebag.com and suddenly it crashed; actually this is nothing new with Photoshop you can always expect a few crashes now and then the weird thing was that when I tried to relaunch and reopen the PSD file; the dialog box disappered !! it only flashed and then disappear.

Damn! If I was worry, I went looking for an answer at Adobe official forums and Microsoft help center, well I found two “methods” to fix this problem one require to reinstall photoshop and remove some MS updates and the other one required to delete all my fonts, uninstall photoshop, reinstall, etc etc.

I was sick and tired so I did what any good engineer does when the little Windows start miss beahiving, I restarted and then tried to rerun photoshop, so I hit the open Dialog box and then …… the same thing happen it disappeared and Photoshop froze on the act, so I hit the Esc key like a crazy person, and something amazing happen I recover control of Photoshop and full with hope I hit the open menu again … WOW!!! it worked the dialog box was back. EUREKA!!!!!

So I hope this helps someone with the same problem, remember if your Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver frozes just hit “Escape”.