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Reduce_
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August 29, 2017
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Showing both normal and full size brush cursors

  • August 29, 2017
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While I was watching this tutorial: How to Add Motion Blur to Backgrounds in Photoshop - YouTube​, I realized that Aaron has both the normal and full brush sizes visible. (Look at 8:07) Does anyone know how this can be achieved? It makes masking and blending much easier especially when you have a lower hardness by allowing you to see the outmost edge and the innermost brush.

Thanks!

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PECourtejoie
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August 30, 2017

Hello, the preferences allow you to get the crosshair with the normal or the full size, but not to mix both.

You might search on http://feedback.photoshop.com to see if someone already asked for that, and vote in that thread.

Trevor.Dennis
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August 30, 2017

PECourtejoie  wrote

Hello, the preferences allow you to get the crosshair with the normal or the full size, but not to mix both.

You might search on http://feedback.photoshop.com to see if someone already asked for that, and vote in that thread.

That's my preferred set up.  Full size, that is, and cross hairs.  It is especially useful with the likes of the Clone tool where you often need to get the offset exactly in the right place.

Lazy Nezumi Pro has some additional cursor options.  The blue cross hairs below is the 'Mega Croshair' and extends to the edge of the main screen.

I've never felt the need to try the Custom Cursor option, but from the documentation...

.cur files are Windows static cursor files, and identical to .ico (other than the extension, so you could make your own with something like Telegraphics ICO plugin for Photoshop, but seeing as they are static, and would not change with the brush size, I am not sure how useful they might be.

Reduce_
Reduce_Author
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August 30, 2017

I guess for now I'll be using the brush full size with the cross hair

I also tried out Lazy Nezumi and the cursor still doesn't give you the inside brush, but I'll use it for a bit and see how I feel about it. Thanks!

Trevor.Dennis
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August 30, 2017

I'm wondering if that is to do with the screen capture software he is using.   (Camtasia or Adobe Captivate?)  I don't know how to enable it with Photoshop at least.

[EDIT]  Whoops.  I started this answer a while back and got distracted, and Jeff had the same thought meanwhile.  Sorry for the cross post Jeff

Reduce_
Reduce_Author
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August 30, 2017

Thanks for the help!

So in theory, is it possible to get both brush settings with external software? Nice to know it can possibly be achieved by the screen capture device, but I doubt I'll be purposely using a recording device to get both brushes .

Jeff Arola
Community Expert
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August 30, 2017

That might be an anomaly created by whatever screen recording software the person is using.

Al ot of screen recording software can be set to use it's own cursors when doing a screen recording.

I don't believe there are any photoshop settings that mimic that.