brush cursor flickering to arrow cursor

[benpren]

When painting with the paintbrush the cursor flickers between the round brush size cursor to an arrowhead.  The paintbrush continues painting as it should, but the cursor flickers constantly between the 2.  This is a visual annoyance but doesn't seem to affect performance.  Has anyone else had this happen and is there a possible fix?

I'm on Photoshop CS6 (latest updates) on 2008 Mac Pro 3,1 with OS X 10.6.8.

[der_Sascha]

That was the Solution! Thanks, this was the End of a 2-Day Journey across the web... 

[dakotakid_parker]

Disabling font activation in Right Font (v 6.1) fixed it for me as well. Photoshop CC 25.3.1 as of October 2022. Thank you.

[airbrusher]

Thanks for addressing this issue! I'm running a 2019 Mac Pro and a Wacom Cintiq with the latest installments of PS CC 2023 all up to date drivers and all. My problem is when I'm using and painting with the brush tool on a layer that contains a layer mask, my cursor flickers into the arrow icon while implimenting strokes with the brush tool/Eraser. Doesn't affect the performance but the distraction is extremely anoying and couneter productive as it blocks what I'm seeing with the arrow flickering and obstructing the view. Howvever, when I go onto a new layer that doesn't contain a layer mask, the issue is not present anymore. So in essence, I can only paint on layers without masks, kinda impossible when illustrating and isolating shapes. Can you please explain to me how I can disable auto-activation in 3rd party font management? This issue has been driving me bonkers as an illustrator. 

[dakotakid_parker]

Disabling auto-activation depends on the font management software. In Right Font as well as older versions of Suitcase, there's a preference that allows you to select which apps will auto-activate. This screenshot is from Right Font. Go to PREFERENCES: AUTO ACTIVATION and click on each app you want to disable auto activate for.

[calenchen]

Hey A big thank you, the annoyance flew away with your advice. Really appreciate your help on this.

[uesix]

IN my case it was an old installation of the AAM (Adobe Application Manager).

I just coincidentally checked for 32-Bit applications which will not be running when updating the OS once. It never was  uninstalled by Adobe Updater when updating from CS6 to CSS and was still runnning in the background, interferring with Photoshop!

Adobe the most horrible software house ever ... it is unbelievable

[NastassiaQueen]

Hi there! I had this problem with photoshop 2020. I didn't had any photoshop plugins or font extensions installed and tried everything (list below), so maybe that will help someone else too.
I've installed the latest wacom drivers, updated my windows 11, installed latest video card drivers (AMD), disabled windows ink, created folder PSUserConfig in Photoshop settings (tablet users are probably aware of it) - nothing helped. Wanted to try disabling font activation, but you can't do that in the 2020 version of Photoshop! (also tried 2021 and 2022 versions of PS - didn't catch that bug there, but other lags and pain appeared  🤌  🤌 

So,
My solution was installing myself Photoshop 2019 - and everything works like clockwork. I don't know, it's like the older the version of Adobe (PS), the smoothier it works.

[IMS 5 Paul]

Deselecting "Enable Generator" worked for me. It's in the preferences menu

[NastassiaQueen]

Thank you for the responce, but it was already deselected in my setup.