Brush tool problem

Hi,

I work in 8 bit color depth and use the hotkey B to choose the brush, but

it sometimes defaults to pencil. I thought it occurred when I was in

Quickmask Mode only, but it occurs randomly, intermittently, both in

Quickmask and not. Once it even defaulted to Mixer Brush Tool, something I

did not even know existed as I never used it.

This tool is a must-have for my work as a retoucher, and I do not know what

I will do without it working properly. Thanks for any help you might be

able to offer.

Hi,

Thanks for your reply.

I am running CS6 64bit on Windows 10, and I have tried resetting the brush

tool many times, but the problem still occurs.

This never happened when I first bought CS6 a few years ago; the problem

started happening recently, and I must assume that Windows updated and

changed something. Maybe it was the antivirus updating.

Whatever it was, the program is impeded and my work crawls along at half

the pace, and it is very frustrating to do a job that was once a pleasure.

Computers are evil.