So, I know this doesn't belong here, but I'm pretty desperate and think that here could be some guys knowing any solution as there are many artists here working with Photoshop.
I'd be truly grateful if you could try to help me with this, as I'm pretty pissed of by this weird annoying glitch or what it is. :/

I've got a new Windows 7 laptop recently and installed the 5.0 version I own of Photoshop. But there appears a problem now that never occured before when I used it with my XP laptop.
It happens when I use the smudge tool on a new layer, where another one lies underneath, and I draw it over the edge of the object of one of the layers, it doesn't float smoothly over the edge, but it creates odd black, soft color merging with it.
Take this picture as an example:



The lower part was being smudged with my old laptop, the upper part with my new one - see the blackness it creates?

This doesn't happen when I check "Use All Layers". But when I smudge using this option, I cannot use the layer freely anymore or there will be parts of the current background where I smudged moving too, or what when I don't want to touch the background but only smudge the character?

It is very annoying, and I can't seem to find a solution for it wherever I search :/ God one site where I searched for help even gave me some viruses! D| So, you're my last hope before I'll truly freak out, so please, please just try to do your best with helping, I'd be so very grateful.

...Even though it isn't my birthday xD.

I know someone on here named "Lanithedeer". She has recently quit the forums, because of.. personal reasons. She will still sometimes be playing her deer in the forest, though.

Anyways, she left me one of her pictograms. A GROWN deer! YES! She said she couldn't think of an account name so she named it Blahblah.

I've decided to make a deer named Zoey with it. I might look to adding her into the rut :3. I will make her AND ClosetMonkey a bio when I learn how to do CSS and such.

Anyways, here's her picto: http://tale-of-tales.com/TheEndlessForest/register/pictogram.php?username=Blahblah

I just made this to let you know it's me. Now, I dunno why you're still on this page. SHOO SHOO.

Im gonna change the mask on Sol from the real deer mask to the Long face mask.

can anyone help me?

she's going to be by the lake.