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michal_j13814260
Inspiring
November 18, 2016

P: Make the brush cursor easier to see (too thin, not enough contrast with some colors)

In last updates I'm having problem seeing brush (paint and healing) cursor when working with colors similar to cursor grey (grey or brown midtones for expamle).

Sometimes cursor changes to white, but for very short time and very randomly.

So it's really hard to see where I'm just gonna paint or heal. It is really annoying and tiring.

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tinasmithphotos
Participant
July 29, 2021

Just bought a new 5K iMac and I'm constantly loosing the cursor when editing! Has there been a fix for this yet?!

Known Participant
May 29, 2021

It blends in with what you are doing and there is no contrast so you can't see it at all. 

So glad I'm not the only one that has noticed this. It is making so difficult to use. Have to guess a lot of the time and hope you are where you want to be.

Inspiring
May 27, 2021

Thank you for posting here - at least we know Adobe is listening (sort of). While it's great that you are looking at solutions, it seems to be taking forever!

Dramenon
Community Manager
Community Manager
May 26, 2021

We are aware of cases that a brush icon can be difficult to see.

Making it stand out more strongly would be very useful and we are evaluating solutions for all the platforms we support.

Participant
May 26, 2021

OMG the brush curser is a serious issue. It has been an issue for over a year! FIX IT. I don't want new "stuff", PLEASE fix what you have so it works. I'm totally frustrated. Make the brush curser so I can see it when working on different colors. It disappears! 

Inspiring
May 26, 2021

I don't think that they read this forum unfortunately. We may have better luck posting to their Twitter?

cbart2
Participant
May 26, 2021

They said a year ago they were working on it.  I complained about it, with video, years ago.  Crickets.

cbart2
Participant
May 26, 2021

i think Adobe will not fix it.  I just have to press command constantly to find out where the cursor is. I told them about this problem years ago when the cursor first became invisible, sent video showing the difficulty.  Crickets.

Inspiring
May 26, 2021

It's not just making the cursor outline thicker - it's about it providing contrast to the background colors and values. The problem is that it completely disappears when over midtones, which is usually the majority of a canvas. So the solution would be for it to reverse the color of what's underneath, not just be either black or white. But all of Adobe's engineers seem to be working on new tools, not fixing critical core functionality.

Inspiring
May 26, 2021

@JeffreyTranberry

I appreciate your saying this ... a year ago ... but new versions have been released, with all of the energy on 'cool new features', which core functionality bugs have remained unaddressed. I worked in the tech sector in software and mobile app design for many years, and if something as critical as this was broken, we'd slow down the implementation of new features to put a team on fixing something that is such a huge pain point for our customers. I'm not saying don't do great new things (I know, we live or die by continuing to iterate and innovate), but ... c'mon. Are your engineers even required to sit down and perform these basic functions on a daily basis? They should. I assume they have the best high res monitors, so they *have* to see this bug and should be as frustrated as the rest of us. My work is so frustrating to do these days, and it used to be a joy. All because *I can't see the cursor most of the time*.