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Inspiring
December 18, 2012
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P: Option to hide cursor on wacom cintiq

  • December 18, 2012
  • 30 replies
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Please have a way to eliminate the cursor when using a Cintiq. I need to do detail work and that cursor is always in the way of what I'm drawing! I've been using Photoshop for 18 years, use it every day as a professional story artist.

30 replies

annam34623321
Participant
January 17, 2023

Ok, I've found a third party bit of software that allows you to hide/show the cursor in photoshop on a mac! Seems to work well so far. Leaving the link here in case it's useful to anyone else. https://doomlaser.com/cursorcerer-hide-your-cursor-at-will/

annam34623321
Participant
January 16, 2023

I've spent the past hour googling how to turn the cursor off and came across this thread instead! It's so frustrating that I can't turn it off. This is my first cintiq and I hate it, seriously thinking about going back to my intuos tablet so I can actually see my brushmarks and what I'm painting. I think this is a huge drawback to using a cintiq and I can't believe it hasn't been addressed by Adobe yet.   

Dea_Marz
Participating Frequently
February 24, 2022

I've tried all plugins. They're all rubbish. Adobe should sort it as a menu command with a shortcut so you can easily swap in between seeing or not seeing the cursor 

Participant
February 24, 2022

I don't want extra marks on my paper when I'm trying to imagine where the next line goes. Is the Wacom user base too small for Photoshop to try to help make drawing intuitive?

Dea_Marz
Participating Frequently
September 6, 2021

It would be amazing to have a shortcut to hide/show cursor when drawing - so needed when drawing, so simple, yet not done yet. Adobe please sort it out. 

Inspiring
January 23, 2021

Gets my vote too.

I would like to see an option to hide cursor when painting (applying pressure with a brush tool)

Would help a lot making animated things with the screen recording.

And when doing fine details you see what you paint, so the cursor is kind of a distraction in some cases.

Please Adobe.

Inspiring
December 3, 2019


the crosshairs on the small brush sizes block your view of your work while painting
why not give users the option of removing them in preferences?
Inspiring
March 19, 2019
It doesn't hide the crosshair. I've tried to find any additional setting in PS or AP to remove the photoshop-originated crosshair, and it is still there. Very distracting and unpleasant. 
Warren Heaton
Community Expert
Community Expert
March 19, 2019
Has anyone with a Cintiq reached out to Wacom about a solution?  Seems if Astropad can do it on the iPad that Wacom could probably do it on the Cintiq as well.  Maybe.
Warren Heaton
Community Expert
Community Expert
March 19, 2019

It's kind of sad when a thread has more unfollows than votes.  It would be great to see this feature request gain some steam.