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

I have always used the Standard Tip but never found it an issue if it does disappeared when I paint for a moment due to the fact that I am using a tablet so I know where my brush is. However, if the tip were to be a colour... I might find that distracting. Hard to say without testing it but I might constantly think it is a part of my digital artwork. Hey, as long as I can hit Legacy in Preferences I will be happy!

Kudos to you and the Photoshop team for finding a way to fix the invisible brush tip, @Mark.Dahm !

Not something else entirely. Not that custom colors has no value, but if the tip is invisible due to high resolution displays, the color of the tip will not matter. Razor thin, even for a customizable color, isn't going to help.

First order bit is to make it so that you can easily spot the cursor. Then assigning custom colors, if its still useful, would make for a good next step.

So the thing so many of us have been clamoring for for years will happen, but after you do something else first. 

This thread started in 2016 (6yrs ago) that's a lot of eye strain and underperformance.

@robtmccann, we will look into that. But that alone would not be sufficient; this became an issue with the prevalence of high resolution displays, and the first order problem is to allow for larger brush tip lines so they can be seeable; color customization will be a future effort.

But giving the outline the capacity to be any color like the guides is not an option? 

It's late 2022 with the latest PS and still the same problem on my 5K 27in iMac. My workaround, when I lose track of the spot healing brush circle, is to hold down the Option key turning the brush into a target icon (or the ⌘ key shows a pointer), move it to the desired spot, let go the Option key or ⌘, and click to heal. 

A colour option would be really nice though.

@Lumigraphics , the challenge there was to implement in such a way that older GPU cards and systems with 'compromised' GPUs wouldn't lose their cursors if we cutover to pure GPU rendering. 

Its just too bad that you can't get hardware cursor support. I mean, there are four players on desktop - Intel, nVidia, AMD, Apple. That would eliminate any performance issues.