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July 15, 2026
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There needs to be a way to modify the default cursors to improve visibility, especially on 4K displays

  • July 15, 2026
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As long as I’ve been using Photoshop (since Version 4), I have struggled with finding the cursor on light areas of an image. Since upgrading to a 4K display, the cursor has become, for all intents and purposes, essentially invisible when editing a white or light gray area on a UHD screen. The limited setting choices in Preferences/Cursor are of no use. Windows has had the ability since 3.1 to set the cursor size and shape, including inversing the arrow to black over a white background and white over a dark or black area of the screen.

It’s nearly impossible to even select an area of the image with the rectangle or round tools as the cursor just disappears in the light background. I’m trying to edit an image with large areas of gray and white in order to smooth them out by selecting and copying decent areas of the image,  but here I am, at 3:59 a.m. cursing the cursor out loud. Just so you know what I’m experiencing, I double dare you to find the cursor in this screenshot from my system:

Find the cursor!

I cannot imagine for a moment that I’m the only one with this complaint, and I do not believe it would be that difficult to add some code to the Preference toolbox to allow customization of the cursor to accommodate different circumstances and displays. I can’t believe this is not a the house on fire issue for vision impaired users.

Thanks for letting me rant.

Stefan.