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November 4, 2021

P: Brush Outline/Circle disappearing when working with masks

  • November 4, 2021
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There is already a discussion in the community "Brush Outline/Circle disappearing intermittently (NOT CAPS LOCK) ". But since I have figured out in detail how to reproduce the behavior and when it becomes present, I want to report the issue officialy that Adobe hopefully will fix this in one of the next upcoming patch releases.

 

OS Environment:

  • Win 10 Pro 64bit 21H1
  • Adobe Ps 23.0.2

 

The issue is only present in combination when using Masks on a layer!

  1. Create a new document (white, black or transparent layer)
  2. Add a Mask to the layer
  3. Select the layer OR the mask (independent on what you want to paint)
  4. Select the brush tool
  5. Try to start moving the mouse quickliy and pressing the left mouse button nearly at the same time and keep the mouse button pressed
  6. Try to repeat until the you get locked in the issue and the brush circle disappears and the mouse arrow becomes visible

 

When working with a mouse as input device, the chance to facing this issue is probably rare because this kind of operation, moving the mouse and clicking the button nearly at the same time is kindly unnatural.

But it looks different when using a pen tablet as input device, because now it becomes a more natural operation when hover the pen toward the tablet surface and then drop down onto the surface to start painting.

 

Kind regards

194 replies

Jqqerry
Inspiring
October 18, 2023

@jeromea13244388 However, the resolution of the ai is too small to be used unless it is for posting on Instagram or something. Of course, commercial commercial photos are not available because of their texutre quality.... =( 

jeromea13244388
Inspiring
October 18, 2023

@SATAN25496335dtyqThe brush tool has bugs, the select tool has bugs, the rotate tool has bugs, apparently the hand tools has bugs, the most basic stuff in an art software is bugged beyond belief but you can generate lighthouses with AI so everything's fine.

Participant
October 17, 2023

Its crazy that this is still unresolved

jeromea13244388
Inspiring
October 16, 2023

@June1234 I am working with a cache tile of 1024k and sure I tried 1028k, too, always had the same problem. The bug appears when I draw on a new layer so maybe you havn't exprienced it yet because you haven't changed layers yet ?

Jqqerry
Inspiring
October 16, 2023

@June1234  Thanks for share your expereince. But 1024 or 1028k is already default size.

Inspiring
October 16, 2023

@jeromea13244388 @Jqqerry So I've been using 24.7.1 for the past few days after resettting my preferences and making sure my cache tile is set to the default value of 1028 ( I have a ryzen cpu), and I haven't been running into this issue at all as of yet.   It's probably bound to happen sooner or later, but before, when I had my cache tile value set to 132, I've had this issue happen to me like constantly every 1 or 2 hours.  I have no idea if cache tile and this issue is related at all, but for me at the very least changing my cache tile back to the default settings has been working.   

Jqqerry
Inspiring
October 13, 2023

@June1234 And as far as I remember (I may be wrong). I think I've seen it a long time ago) The cache tile size is automatically configured as 1024, 1028, depending on the manufacturer of the CPU (intel/ryzen), so it won't be a matter of tile size.

jeromea13244388
Inspiring
October 13, 2023

@June1234 
I have
Cache Level 8

Cache Tile Size 1024k
I doubt that here lies the problem, I already tested several configuration on that front.

Jqqerry
Inspiring
October 13, 2023

@June1234 
Cache Level 4 

Cache Tile Size 1028k

 

My main pc is Ryzen.

Inspiring
October 13, 2023

@Jqqerry I think I may have found the culprit for this.  But I'm not entirely sure yet.  If you don't mind, what cache tile size are you using for photoshop?