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P: Brush Outline/Circle disappearing when working with masks

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November 4, 2021
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There is already a discussion in the community "Brush Outline/Circle disappearing intermittently (NOT CAPS LOCK) ". But since I have figured out in detail how to reproduce the behavior and when it becomes present, I want to report the issue officialy that Adobe hopefully will fix this in one of the next upcoming patch releases.

OS Environment:

Win 10 Pro 64bit 21H1
Adobe Ps 23.0.2

The issue is only present in combination when using Masks on a layer!

Create a new document (white, black or transparent layer)
Add a Mask to the layer
Select the layer OR the mask (independent on what you want to paint)
Select the brush tool
Try to start moving the mouse quickliy and pressing the left mouse button nearly at the same time and keep the mouse button pressed
Try to repeat until the you get locked in the issue and the brush circle disappears and the mouse arrow becomes visible

When working with a mouse as input device, the chance to facing this issue is probably rare because this kind of operation, moving the mouse and clicking the button nearly at the same time is kindly unnatural.

But it looks different when using a pen tablet as input device, because now it becomes a more natural operation when hover the pen toward the tablet surface and then drop down onto the surface to start painting.

Kind regards

Windows

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Jqqerry

Inspiring

@jeromea13244388 I'm still waiting, too. (I still see only 24.3 as well.) If this isn't fixed this season, it's probably a lot behind the priorities... I'm worried. I'm still at 24.0.

jeromea13244388

Inspiring

@Jqqerry: No, there's still only 24.3 available. I think the versions are available for everyone at the same time.

Jqqerry

Inspiring

@jeromea13244388 Hi. Is 24.4 released in your country by any chance?
We need to check if this has been fixed in 24.4.

Jqqerry

Inspiring

I'm worried that this has been merged into an existing thread.
Cursor issues with current 24.0 and later versions have nothing to do with layer masks...
In fact, using a brush or clone stamp on a blank layer or on a regular layer without a layer mask often causes this problem.
So I hope this issue will be fixed soon, but I think the fix will be delayed because it was merged into a thread, not the same topic.

nicholasa43564700

Participant

Seems like I'll need to roll back to 24.0 to get rid of this pervasive bug. Really annoying and kills my momentum when it shows up.

jeromea13244388

Inspiring

@Ku290263886mpa For me the bug is here already in 24.0 but much less present, yet it's tedious when trying to draw fast strokes. Also it does seem to depend on zoom levels (?).
Not sure if it's related to what @Przemek27842062wc9o said but I notice that the layers+history menus tend to flicker when the file/canvas slides under them while drawing. Weird.

To be honest there are all kinds of weird bugs (weird because they concern basic tools) : drawing lagging when you rotate canvas, move tool not working when you try to move selections on too short distances with the mouse (you have to use your keyboard's arrow keys), transformation tool not working properly when you type ctrl+h (hiding the transformation controls)... It seems so random, I don't know how to keep track of the bugs, I hope they'll get solve in the April update.

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Ku290263886mpa

Participant

Ah is this an old bug? First of all, I don't have this problem in 24.0. All other versions of 2023 (including 24.3) get this arrow bug. It's very uncomfortable. Does anyone know when this is fixed?

Jqqerry

Inspiring

This bug persists in 24.2.1. Window10

As I wrote before, the solution that "at least for me" didn't cause this bug 100% was to install 24.0.
Some users had to install 2022.

I hope it will be fixed in the next version 24.3.

Jqqerry

Inspiring

@Chad Rolfs What he says is like a layer panel. A layer panel that lets you add and manage Layer Mask and Adjustment Layer.
But I can't deactivate and test it because I always use a layer panel. =(

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Przemek27842062wc9o

Inspiring

Layers panel, where you can move the layer thumbnails from top to bottom. I've been painting for a few days now with the layers panel open and the white arrow not showing up, so I think this is a solution for me. As soon as I close the panel, the arrow appears, always.

The open panel doesn't bother me because I usually paint pictures with a lot of layers and thanks to that I can switch them quickly.

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aZ28825727luda

Participant

Window10, Window11 (I Have 2 PC)

MY photoshop Version is 24.2(2023)

As I wrote in the title, the round shape of the brush disappears and turns into a white arrow. And it comes back when I stop painting the brush. (It's not just a BRUSH, also cloneSTAMP)

It's very uncomfortable. Please Fix..

Jqqerry

Inspiring

Is what you're going through similar to this?

https://www.reddit.com/r/photoshop/comments/thvjkd/brush_keeps_turning_into_mouse_cursor_when_i/

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-bugs/p-brush-outline-circle-disappearing-when-working-with-masks/idc-p/13632894/page/5#M77704

If this is correct, most users will experience that bug since 24.1 (same with me). The temporary workaround is to roll back to 24.0.
However, some users are also experiencing the bug in 24.0 (even the Reddit link I attached was uploaded a year ago).
So you'll have to find the right version for you.

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