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Dadshade
Dadshade
Inspiring
May 25, 2020
Question

Brush settings

  • May 25, 2020
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Recently I was going through a tutorial about brush settings and must have made a change and now I can't get the brushes back to the way they were before. I have tried Restore Default Brushes and many other options, with no success.

 

The issue is that when setting the brush to 100% hardness, it displays and functions normally. But, when selecting a soft brush, the surround (outer circle) of the brush is very fuzzy and displays at a different size to the 100% hard brush. The soft brush also paints on a very small (narrow) area and will not change, no matter how hard I press with the Wacom pen, even though I have changed the pen pressure settings.

 

This is tricky to descibe, so I have attached some images of my screen to demonstrate the issue. Notice that the brush size in both images is 1500px, yet the actual physical brush size differs.

 

Any ideas to assist in finding what I changed or resetting please?

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c.pfaffenbichler
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c.pfaffenbichlerCommunity Expert
Community Expert
May 25, 2020

Please post proper screensots taken at View > 100% including the Brush Settings Panel on this page directly. 

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201361

What are the Photoshop > Preferences > Cursors settings? 

 

Dadshade
DadshadeAuthor
Inspiring
May 25, 2020

Hi there @c_pfaffenbichler. Thanks for the reply. Really appreciate it.

 

I took the images of my screen with my mobile because when doing a screenshot, the actual brush does not show, and that was the main thing I needed you to see. Maybe I just don't know how to get the brush to show in a proper screenshot?

 

However, you hit it right first time! I went to the cursor settings, and Painting Cursors was set to Full Size Brush Tip. After trying Normal, Precise and Standard, I settled on Normal Brush Tip, which does the trick.

 

No idea how that got changed, but I'm SO grateful to you for taking the time to point me in the right direction.

 

Keep safe and well.

    c.pfaffenbichler
    Community Expert
    c.pfaffenbichlerCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    May 25, 2020

    You are right, the standard screenshot does not show the cursor. (One can work around that by doing a screen recording and screenshot-ing that or extract a frame from it.) 

    I had suspected some Brush Settings might be involved but good to know the Cursors Preferences achieved the intended result.

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