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

finally!!! In fact, even if you introduce it to a regular release version other than beta right away, no one will object.(Of course, we know you're prepared for a possible bug)

Holy moly a coming beta solution to this invisible cursor problem, HURRAYYY !!!  Thank you!  
Thank you for listening, even if we were all waiting and walking blindfolded for a long long while, this is a cool drink of water!
Heading to the beta now and hoping it shows up there soon. 

Thank you to you and the team @Mark.Dahm !

Jane

Can someone please come pick me off the floor!!!

But all joking aside it's fantastic to know that the community has finally been heard and this issue has gained the long awaited attention it's needed. Thanks for the update Mark 👍🙏

Any improvement would be helpful, @Mark.Dahm.

The cursor's ability to flip white or black was implemented on the CPU, which is able to analyze the pixels below the brush so that the tip color can dynamicaly switch between white (against dark average pixel values) or black (against white pixel values). This implementation never really addressed the mid tone values where either white or black values don't offer much contrast, but as long as the canvas resolution remained 1:1, it seemed good enough for a long time.

Once higher resolution displays came along, it rendered the brush tips hard to see across almost all values because the size of a single or double pixel line shrunk down to something that was just too small to make out at all. 

In May of 2021 when Daniel responded, we were looking at drawing the brush tip with the GPU, and changing the behavior to a white inner circle with a black outer circle. This would have eliminated the dynamic contrast switching of the old brush to a static tip that only ever looked one way, however we could not get the performance of the GPU rendered brush realiable and fast enough to compare to the current brush, so we went back to the drawing board.

We now have a proposed solution that offers user-controlled 'outline thickness' for the brush, and it's going into testing this week for feedback. It may not address every problematic use case, but it's the first bite of the apple and I think a good step forward. We are still committed to exceeding the visibility and matching the performance of the current brush at all resolutions and across a wide range of brush tips, and while I'm sure there may be some complex tips that suffer a bit from the new behavior, if it's good enough for general use case, then we'll move forward.

For those that may not know, all customers may download a separately installable Beta version of Photoshop that can run alongside the currently generally available version, and newer features are often being test-driven in that version of Photoshop. You can find it under the Beta section of the Creative Cloud app. When we move into the phase where it's in the Beta, I can update this thread.

I apologize for the time that's it has taken to nail down a fix for this; there is always a long going on between keeping the lights on and building new features, and we've never forgotten about the need to address this problem.

And yet here we are 18 months later with no resolution.  As a partially visually impared person, a solution would be most helpful.

With Photoshop we can do magic. The competence of its developers is unbelievable. How is it possible that they have not yet managed to solve such a simple problem!!!!

Bonjour. Sur un fond sombre le contour de ma brosse devient blanc, ce qui la rend bien visible. Par contre sur un fond clair elle devient grise et trés peu visible. Est-il possible de changer des réglages pour qu'elle devienne noir sur un fond clair, ou autre chose ? Merci.