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Hide crosshairs cursor

Forum|Forum|14 years ago
January 16, 2012
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Hi,

In CS5, is there a way to hide the cursor/ crosshairs while drawing? Since I'm working on a Cintiq I don't need visual reference of where my cursor is - it's where my pen is - and it actually annoys me to have this crosshair cursor in the way of what I'm doing. Ofcourse it's no problem to have a cursor for selecting tools or menus - it's only while drawing that it would be preferable to have a clean working area under the pentip.

thanks for any help,

Jasper

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sunilk25467318

Participant

Download cursorcerer and press shift + control = k it will hide the cursor

markm12153371

Participant

I contacted Photoshop about an option to remove or hide the cursor and they really don't care about this issue. They told me it's nothing to do with them, the cursor is all down to the Windows operating system.

Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

markm12153371 wrote
I contacted Photoshop about an option to remove or hide the cursor and they really don't care about this issue. They told me it's nothing to do with them, the cursor is all down to the Windows operating system.

Hi Mark. Can you give us details about your issue? You shouldn't have any problem hiding the cross hair cursor, providing you are talking about the Photoshop cursors. You might do better by starting a new thread seeing as this one is four years old. Tell us your operating system, Photoshop version, and as much detail as you can about your issue. What tool you get the issue with etc.

We should be able to help you.

K

kamih

Inspiring

Lazy Nezumi plugin to the rescue! (again)

You can choose to always hide the cursor, or only when you are drawing.

Check it out here:
http://lazynezumi.com

Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

kamih wrote:
Lazy Nezumi plugin to the rescue! (again)
You can choose to always hide the cursor, or only when you are drawing.
Check it out here:

That was a new one for me, but it looks useful, and only US$14 for 'Hobbyist' license. Has anyone else had experience with it?

[EDIT] Your link wouldn't work for me for some reason. Try this one

http://lazynezumi.com/

Ahhh... I can see you had trouble with the forum's hyperlink feature. It can be a PITA at times.

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ferghull

Participant

Was reading this thread while looking for a way to record live line drawing in Photoshop without seeing the cursor.

While Lazynezumi is cool, it's unfortunately not for OSX.

I found this little preference pane: http://doomlaser.com/cursorcerer-hide-your-cursor-at-will/ which does the trick very neatly. You can toggle the cursor on and off with a hotkey, and it works in Photoshop.

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goosekeepr

Participant

I have the same issue. The crosshairs are very distracting when trying to do detailed work. I switched to Painter years ago because it has a 1 Pixel Cursor. I've been poking around in Ps's files to try to find the cursor images but so far have not had any luck.

If anyone has a solution to this, I'd love to know it!

I wish I could just toggle off the crosshairs. They just aren't needed for Cintiqs and pen-on-screen tablets.

J

J453

Legend

Do you have show cross hair checked in the preferences for Cursors?

Chris Cox

Legend

I think he wants to show NO cursor at all: no crosshair, no outline at all.

That's an option that Photoshop does not currently have, but would make a good feature request.

PECourtejoie

Community Expert

Hello, if you press on CAPS LOCK, the crosshair will be replaced by a cursor of the size of your brush tip (unless it is very small, or too big to fit on the visible part of the image.)

In preferences>displays and cursors, you can change additional settings about your brush tip, but there is no way that I know of to make it disappear altogether.

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