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etaneyhill
Inspiring
October 10, 2018
Question

Brush/Eraser cursor changes when using it

  • October 10, 2018
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I kinda have the same issue, which can be seen on this forum here: Re: Photoshop loading cursor when drawing lines? except not the loading icon. On the eraser tool or sometimes on the brush tool, the cursor switches to that hand icon or my mouse cursor until I finish drawing/erasing (until I lift my stylus back up). It then stops and goes back to using the regular cursor again. I don't know what's causing this. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling Photoshop too. I'm using a Mac as well on High Sierra 10.13 on an iMac Pro 3.2 ghz of ram, 32 GB of memory and Radeon Pro Vega 56 graphics card. Is there anyone else that has experienced this? Please and thank you for the responses.

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    etaneyhillAuthor
    Inspiring
    October 19, 2018

    Happens at 1:27 when the brush icon changes to that hand selection cursor. Is this natural? It's never happened to me before in photoshop ever. Please advise! Thank you!

    Muqqarib Hassan
    Muqqarib Hassan
    Inspiring
    October 10, 2018

    Hi, Have you turned off your Graphic processor for temporary and then reboot your photoshop and try to use the brush tool again ?

    For Graphic Processor Go to Edit> Preferences > Performance and then turn off the graphic processor.

    May be it will help you.

    Thanks.

    Thanks.

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    etaneyhillAuthor
    Inspiring
    October 19, 2018

    It even happened when I turned off the Graphic Processor momentarily.

    Muqqarib Hassan
    Muqqarib Hassan
    Inspiring
    October 19, 2018

    Hi,  please turn it off for temporarily.  After that turn it on! 

    Akash Sharma
    Akash Sharma
    Legend
    October 10, 2018

    Hi etaneyhill,

    Sorry that you're facing issues with Photoshop CC while using the brush tool as your cursor is getting changed to a different tool unexpectedly.

    I'd suggest that you restore Photoshop preferences to default as mentioned in this article Preferences in Photoshop and let us know if that helps.

    Thanks,

    Akash

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    etaneyhillAuthor
    Inspiring
    October 11, 2018

    It doesn't change the tool itself. It sometimes changes the cursor into the hand icon or sometimes the mouse. I haven't touched the preferences since I haven't set shortcuts or anything. I uninstalled photoshop and deleted all my preferences sometime ago and redownloaded it to see if that would fix it, but it happened again not too long after. I've never really experienced this problem before until the most recent photoshop update. Could they be linked?

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    etaneyhillAuthor
    Inspiring
    October 16, 2018

    I reset the preferences and it's still happening.

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