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My smoothing option for brush is not working

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
February 5, 2025
5 replies
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My smoothing option is not greyed out it can be put at 100% but the behaviour of the brush stays the same as with smoothing turned off. I just want this "Lazy Mouse" how can I get this to work? Because on my old PC it worked but now on my macbook it is just not working since I installed it. It is just smoothing out the last part of my drawing which is weird as well (shown in the video)

Here is a video showing my issue: https://imgur.com/a/lHrpMMS

jamesjhone7

Participant

That is frustrating sometimes brush smoothing behaves differently across devices or OS versions. Checking for updates or reinstalling often fixes it. Finding tools that just work smoothly makes a big difference, much like enjoying a seamless experience in x44 bet game.

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tomnsf

Participant

I had the same issue. Finally tracked it down to needing to enable the Smoothing checkbox.

Such lame UX to disable some feature and then offer no hover help as to WHY it’s not available.

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madebyskull

Participating Frequently

Is there any way I can fix this? Because it seems like nobody has any idea.

c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

Could you post a screen recording to illustrate what happens/fails to happen for you?

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madebyskull

Participating Frequently

i have posted 2 recordings in this thread already

Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

Try turning on the Brush Leash visability in Preferences > Cursors

That will give you a better idea of how it is working. 100% smoothing can actually make things worse because the long leash means the brush stroke will be too far behind the cursor to smoothly move through a small radius change of direction. I'm thinking this effect would be magnified with larger brushes and low spacing because of lag.

If you were still using Windows, you could use Lazy Nezumi Pro, which has much better brush smoothing than Photoshop's native feature.

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madebyskull_Author

Inspiring

Thank you for your answer, but it is still not fixed, I made another video with that setting turned on. It is just not smoothing my brush as it should. How can I fix this? Because I need the lazy mouse feature.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJN8cADmEHs

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madebyskull_Author

Inspiring

And no I am a mac user.

davescm

Community Expert

What are your settings under smoothing options (click on the cogwheel in the options bar next to the smoothing value to check)?

Dave

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madebyskull_Author

Inspiring

davescm

Community Expert

To be honest I rarely use smoothing at that high level due to the slow strokes but I tried the same settings here and it looks normal, fast smoothing unless you hold the mouse at the end where there is a slow down toward the catch up. If you lift the pen, or mouse button during that catch up it stops drawing and goes to the next brush stroke.

I checked this in two versions, Photoshop v26.3 and Photoshop 24.7.5 both worked the same way.

Dave

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