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

I know this is a pretty old bug or problem.
It refers to the fact that the cursor of the brush(Brush, Mixerbrush, clonestamp, healingbrush ..etc) is not visible well.

But I can tell you exactly the problem.

First, Take a look at my picture and look for my mouse cursor.

Did you find it? I purposely made the brush size bigger so that it's easy to find. You can't see it well, right?

lol. My cursor was over there. You need to find the cursor as if you're working on a puzzle. Honestly, you can't really see it.

But you know what?

If I move my mouse very slightly anywhere(0.05~0.06mm), something interesting happens.

it's almost same spot. It's almost 99.9 percent the same position.
But the edges change. 😃

From a very long time ago, a few years ago, a lot of people have reported on this. I agree that the edges are hard to see and that's why I'm posting.

But the thread, which had a huge number of views, was filled with what color it should be displayed in, and the edges were too thin, and I don't know what was really the exact problem. That's why it doesn't work out.

The exact problem is this. The cursor is too sensitive to the brightness or saturation of the image.

The edges of those two cursors work very effectively in the light area, or in the dark area, where each curs are needed.

But it's really a case of solid colors, and it's very sensitive when the brightness gets a little bit more varied. Like the picture I attached above.

I don't know how the cursor edge of Photoshop reacts and changes so fluidly.
Because I'm not a developer or a programmer. =(

But I think it's necessary to control the sensitivity of the cursor to the "variability" of the edge. You need to be a little dull as if you are setting the sample size in pixels or 3X3, 5x5, and 11x11 in the eyedropper tool.

If you adjust the sensitivity of that, you can change the color of the edges or apply the inverted color in real time... All Adobe users' complaints over the past decade are resolved without the complexity of doing so.

Just like the eyedropper tool, you can give the user a choice on how sensitive the edge of the mouse cursor will be, but I think Adobe will be satisfied with it.

Lastly, I would like to summarize.
The big problem of the last decade is that the "brush cursor is hard to see" cursor changes the bright edge or dark edge to fit the area of the cursor fluidly because it works "too sensitively."
How to fix this? Or the direction you need to work in is "to work less sensitively, more obtusely."

yet here i am in august, 2022, 15 months since you said "we are evaluating solutions" and HOW MANY YEARS DOES IT TAKE TO EVALUATE?  adobe is such junk now.  i can't see my cursor on any  [cursing removed by moderator] file any more unles is set to BLINDING SUPER MEGA CONTRAST! 

[abuse removed by moderator] have taken a program that was once FUN to use and turned it into a [cursing removed by moderator] nightmare. 

but keep sending those "late payment" notices.  i've downloaded affinity programs.

ebenostby, that's a great idea! Will absolutely try that. Thank you!

The best solution I've found (Mac) is to use a "mouse finder" app like Simple Mouse Locator. It tracks the mouse position and can display the location with a thick colored circle.

Has anyone found a solution to this? I've been working on so many images lately where it's almost impossible to see the spot healing brush tool and am getting horrible headaches from all the squinting. 

@Trevor.Dennis Wrote on 3 August 2022

"Does press and releasing the Command key work the same for Macs as it does with Windows?  This is my goto way of locating the cursor."

Trevor, this is a very long thread with close to 350 replies, so you may not remember saying the same thing on 6 December 2021? Here it is for you! 😊

No, Windows has a system feature to hold Ctrl but that's not a Mac feature. On the Mac, rapidly shaking the mouse enlarges the cursor but apparently the Wacom driver is broken so it doesn't work with a tablet. :sigh:

Does press and releasing the Comand key work the same for Macs as it does with Windows?  This is my goto way of locating the cursor.