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December 10, 2014

P: Contextual (right click) brush menu fails to load pressure sensitive preview

  • December 10, 2014
  • 16 replies
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This bug is 100% replicable across several versions of Photoshop. including cs5, cs6, and the latest CC (on PC though I haven't tested on Mac).

Steps to reproduce:
- Open Photoshop
- Open or create a document
- Select brush tool
- Right click within the document with a mouse (specifically a non-pressure sensitive input device), bringing up the brushes panel
- Click gear icon at upper right
- In the pull-down menu, select "Stroke Thumbnail" (if it isn't already)
- Observe that stroke thumbnail ignores pressure settings and renders brush previews as 100% for all pressure sensitive values (image 1)

If you repeat the exact same steps, but with a pressure sensitive stylus instead of a mouse, the brushes panel will display correctly (image 2)

Image 1 (my brushes displaying incorrectly)


Image 2 (my brushes displaying correctly)


The frustration comes from the fact that whichever you use to display the brushes panel first will lock it in until you restart Photoshop. That is to say, if you right click with the mouse first, the brush stroke preview will display incorrectly and subsequent right clicks with the pressure sensitive stylus will also display incorrectly.

Likewise, if the right click context menu is initiated with the stylus when you first open Photoshop, the mouse button will also display the correct, pressure sensitive preview.

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16 replies

Known Participant
February 5, 2015
Hmmm, Not so with mine. Pressure sensitivity works within a document when I apply a stroke with my stylus, but the preview in the brush palette is still the non pressure version.

I deleted my preferences and the same behavior occurs.

For what it's worth I'm on fully updated Win 7 machine with an Nvidia graphics card, latest drivers, a Microsoft mouse, and a Cintiq 21UX with latest drivers.
Participating Frequently
January 20, 2015
Using 2014.2.2, running on Win 8
For me I get no pressure preview when initially invoked with a mouse (which is expected on Windows), but after using stylus it gets the pressure preview and stays that way through the session. Initial invocation with stylus has pressure preview and stays that way when invoking with a mouse.
Known Participant
January 20, 2015
As in this isn't actually resolved...
Known Participant
January 14, 2015
Unfortunately the problem persists exactly as before in 2014.2.2
Legend
December 11, 2014
Should be fixed in the 2014.2.2 update. Choose Help>Updates... to install.
Legend
December 10, 2014
Eng team is looking into this.