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Makado
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October 23, 2024
Question

Photoshop 2025 v.26 Brush Tool Issues, appearing as single dots.

  • October 23, 2024
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Hi,

 

 As a digital painter heavily reliant on Photoshop, I've always valued the software's precision and responsiveness. However, I've encountered a significant issue with the latest version, 2025 v.26.

 

https://imgur.com/a/photoshop-2025-brush-tool-problame-OXCUHRL 

 

 When using the brush tool, the strokes are frequently interrupted, appearing as single dots. This behavior only resolves after switching to another window and then back. This is incredibly disruptive, especially when recording demonstration videos for my work!

 

 Given the subscription-based nature of Photoshop, it's frustrating to consistently encounter such bugs with each new update (and you need to try to resolve them by yourself?)

 

I don't know how to fix it, sorry for the bad words. I'm just mad for now T__T

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    alfred23454291ll0k
    Participant
    October 10, 2025

    Same here, first with mini m1 now with mini m4 in both cases ps 2025, had to use ps 2024 .

    mac mini m4 16-512
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    munigho
    Participant
    July 4, 2025

    My circle brush cursor just freezes at one point, but photoshop will still be tracking my mouse movement. This only happens when the brush is at a medium-big size. What's going on in these new updates.... We don't want problems we just want to work in peace with no disruptions lol.

    Trevor.Dennis
    Community Expert
    Trevor.DennisCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    July 5, 2025

    It's always better to start a new thread in your situation. That way we would know what operating system you were using from the thread tags, and we'd have a clue as to which Photoshop version? 

     

    So what operating system and version are you using?

    What Photoshop version?

    Reference to the last post from last year, what do your brush settings look like?  

    Is this happening with all brush presets and tools that use the same cursor(s)?

    When did it start, and does it tie in with something changing?  You mentioned an update.  Which one.

     

    Dispite you finding this old thread, this is not a frequent issue.  You are the first person I have seen reporting it in the 16 years I have been doing this.  It might, just possibly, be a corrupted settings file, and solved with a Preference reset, but my guess is that something is broken.  Either with Photoshop or your operating system.

     

    If you open Photoshop and go Help > System Info > Copy and paste to this thread, that will tell us what you are using.

    If you have the beta version installed, then we can get an idea whether this is an OS or Photoshop issue.

     

     

    Semaphoric
    Community Expert
    SemaphoricCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    October 30, 2024

    Does this happen wilth all the Brush presets, or only a few? In the Brush Settings panel, is the Spacing value set to a very high value?

      CMass
      Community Manager
      CMassCommunity Manager
      Community Manager
      October 30, 2024

      Hi Makado, thank you for making us aware of this issue and for providing such detailed information. This will greatly help us in troubleshooting further. Could you also share your system information? You can find this by going to Help > System Info. Please copy and paste the details into a text file and attach it here. ^CM

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