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August 7, 2011

P: brush cursors not working on 2011 Mac/MacBook Air (OS X 10.7.x Lion)

  • August 7, 2011
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I'm running CS5 version 12.0.4 on a 2011 MacBook Air and the brushes do not work when resized between approx 300 - 650 in size. I don't know if this is a bug but the issue occurs in Lightroom as well. Please advise when an update will be issued to fix this. The software is pretty much useless to me with this issue affecting it.

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Inspiring
November 3, 2011
A question to the Adobe guys in here... As Maciej highlights, Apple aren't giving this issue much of a priority. Are you looking at a work-around in the way that you draw cursors that will get us back on the road?
Inspiring
November 2, 2011
Abandon Your hope. The problem is at least 3 months old and we had OsX updates since then. Nothing has changed.
Inspiring
November 2, 2011
As noted several times above, this is a bug in the MacOS video card drivers.
Participant
November 2, 2011
No worries Hlynur--I have a MacBook Pro with the same issue. It is apparently a problem between the new Mac OS and Photoshop and Lightroom.

I hope they fix it soon!!!
Participating Frequently
November 2, 2011
My problem was merged into this one, it is exactly the same as the others, but i seem to be the only one using a Macbook Pro in here... Just to see if this is the correct queue for me?
Participating Frequently
November 2, 2011
I'm running a 13" macbook pro
In lightroom 3.5 for mac, the propper cursor disappears when i use the adjustment brush. If i hide the left (navigator) pane it reappears. When i say it disappears I mean it changes into the regular mouse icon and the changes it makes, all happen a little down to the left from the mouse icon.

I have seen similar posts about the macbook air but nothing about the pro

Lightroom version: 3.5 [775451]
Version: 10.7 [2]
Application architecture: x64
Physical processor count: 4
Processor speed: 2.3 GHz
Built-in memory: 4096.0 MB
Real memory available to Lightroom: 4096.0 MB
Real memory used by Lightroom: 1247.7 MB (30.4%)
Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 3482.9 MB
Memory cache size: 814.8 MB
Displays: 1) 1280x800

Inspiring
November 1, 2011
No, it shows that Pixelmator is drawing their cursors in a slightly different way.

This problem affects multiple applications that don't share code (just particular, necessary API calls), and only on certain GPUs. The problem is in the driver software, which can only be fixed by Apple.
Inspiring
November 1, 2011
I thought I would try Pixelmator and see if the brushes problem was there. It isn't. This clearly shows that this huge problem is not just an Apple graphics driver problem as Adobe would like you to believe.
Participating Frequently
October 31, 2011
I have the same problem with lightroom on my Macbook Pro 13"

It seams like the more panes you hide and the more towards "fullscreen" you go, the more of the adjustment brush range goes bad.
Inspiring
October 28, 2011
Im on Lion OSX 10.7.2 MacBook Pro Early 2011 model

Im sorry if this is of no help at all, but some tinkering around i have found that the cursor jumps down and right when the brush is in between sizes 24.2 and 43.3 (inclusive).
Ofdd i know, but it works. change it to a size not in that range and it works fine.