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February 13, 2026

Symmetry tool not mirroring brush-settings correctly

  • February 13, 2026
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OS: Latest Windows version.
Photoshop: 27.3.1

GPU: RTX 5070, latest driver. 

When using the Symmetry Tool to draw, the mirrored side doesn’t seem to take some brush settings into account and redraws an off-looking line, but brush path and stylus pressure sensitivity is still correctly mirrored.

This is always true for both vertical and horizontal symmetry, but somehow redraws a perfect looking line in the opposite corner of a Dual Axis symmetry. Same for Mandala symmetry.

Right side is the Original
Top Right is the Original


The only exception is the Radial symmetry which reproduces perfect looking lines. Though I’m guessing the “nice looking lines” are only rotated, not flipped/mirrored.
The bad looking results get worse the smaller the pixel size of the brush is.
 

Top Right is the Original

My pen input is represented by the right hand (or top right hand) side of each screenshot, using a 4px size brush (except for the horizontal example where I used a 3px brush to emphasize that pixel size mattered).
Brush settings included if find it hard to reproduce with your own.


Canvas setting is 300dpi.

 

Thank you for looking into this,

H

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    davescm
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    February 13, 2026

    I was able to reproduce this and also narrow it down to the combination of Angle Jitter and Minimum Roundness. If you remove ‘transfer’ settings completely and under shape dynamics only set Angle jitter (set to 100%) and Pen Pressure controlled Minimum Roundness to 99% you get a smooth line drawn but a very jittery line reflected.
    It looks like a bug.
    Reproduced in v27.3.1 on Windows 11 with RTX3090 24GB GPU Studio driver 580.97

    Dave