P: Make the brush cursor easier to see (too thin, not enough contrast with some colors)

@fernandoluizdealmeida   Thanks Fernando.  The exclusion mode  idea works for me

YES! I'm dying - retouch for a living and I'm losing my mind. Getting new glasses that I hope might help...working large as possible but lose my cursor so often it's impeding my work. Please prioritize this. Those of us who are heavy, daily users are really having problems.

I have a laptop with an ultrahigh def. screen. As I move the tool ring across my work, it appears and disappears. It seems to be according to the background colour as to whether I can see it or it vanishes completely. This is the same for all the tools that use a ring (paint brush, spot healing etc..) and does not matter if I make the tool ring big or samll or zoom in and out of the photo.

IT IS NOT the "caps lock" problem.  and changing anything in Prferances > Cursor, does not help.
I have talked to Photoshop but they got tired of taking to me and gave up. I don’t think they understood what the problem was.
I am pretty sure it is to do with the outline of the circle be a number of pixels and because the screen has a very high pixel density, it makes the outline of the circle very thin. (to the point it can not be seen especially against some background colours)
Is anyone else getting this problem on UHD screens please?     

The range of colours where the cursor does not invert or inverts at the wrong time is so large that I just have to shoot blind in the dark too many times in a day. Or land a random first stroke to see where the hell the cursor is and keep working from that point  - not pleasant.

@JeffreyTranberry Hi Jeffrey, how is your radar? Still working? It’s almost a year from my initial post. We have new Photoshop version again and no brush visibility solution yet.

I remember Adobe promised better snd Photoshop, when changed bussines model to subscription. Oposite is reality. Basic features are still not working properly and working with PS is a pain.

I have posted before and have seen other posts regarding this issue with the newer releases of Photoshop, but now I can not locate these posts to find out their status. I am not getting emails or any other notifications related to this issue. Can someone please update me on how to resolve my issues?

The prerequisite is that "Normal brush tip" is selected as the tool preset.

This preview works by combining a circle of white pixels with a circle of black pixels as a preview. That always worked well as long as the screens had normal resolutions.

This is now becoming a problem with the retina displays, because the resolution is so fine that under certain conditions the tool preview can no longer be seen.

You can easily reproduce this:

1. Fill the work area with gray: RGB 128 128 128
2. Set the tool appearance to "Normal brush tip". (In my german interface "Normale Pinselspitze")
3. You can no longer see the circle or circles on retina displays.

It is the same effect as looking at a checkerboard pattern from a distance.
The brush preview, consisting of RGB 0 0 0 and RGB 255 255 255 becomes optically blurred
on fine screens to RGB 128 128 128.

One solution would be to represent 4 or 8 for each individual pixel. Or to make it possible to define the color of the tool preview yourself. So with b / w motifs, which it mainly concerns, e.g. switch to red or green.

Other Software-Tools like MochaPro or Silhouette from BorisFX do it that way.

I've been hassling with invisible cursor for over a year.   I have to click on command (on a mac) to see where the cursor is, ALL THE TIME.

Hello!  I have very poor visibility of the cursor of the drawing tools (brush, stamp, eraser, mixer brush) on a gray or close to neutral background.  On a dark and light background, the cursor is visible normally, if you move it to a neutral area - visibility drops sharply, the cursor merges with the picture.  It is impossible to retouch on a gray layer, sometimes you cannot even find the cursor in the image.  Help me please!

I am working with PS2021, and well? I didn't realize this issue existed before now!  HOWEVER, the issue still is apparently still there! I just walked one of the tech support guys so that he could duplicate the issue and see for himself. 

Placed a black to white gradient on a new document and then had him place the cursor on the black are and tell me what he saw, then the white area and do the same... Then had him go to the 50% grey area.

Poor guy, he probably thought I was crazy, but he finally saw what happens when you put a grey brush outline on a grey background!

It dismays me to see this issue in PS2021 after being present (based on the posts here) for a lot longer than 2 weeks! 

Adobe? You just created some amazing new features (sky replacement, neural filters, etc.)! Surely you can address the invisible cursor issue!!! 

So get it done! Don't turn Photoshop an inferior product when things are going so well !