How to restore the circle shape for the brush tool in Photoshop

[AllanKinghorn]

My brush tool has become a small cross hair and cannot get back to a circle. How do I reset?

[John Waller]

Which Adobe product are you referring to?

[Kapil.Malik]

Hi,

Product name will definatly help us to direct you to correct forum..

Thanks

Kapil Malik

[NitinGupta7]

There you go, Allan!

Cheers

[Jeffrey_A_Wright]

Nitin is this a screenshot from Photoshop?  If so what version?  The OP still needs to respond with which software they are using.

[AllanKinghorn]

I worked it out. The capital lock key jumps between cross hairs and circle.

Allan

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[Tony27872102fifl]

I had the same issue and the caps lock thing does not fix it, tried the changing the cursor on preferences and still did not work, rebooted my pc to see if something was stuck and nope, later something magically made the crosshairs go away. A glitch in the program probably, since I do not hit the caps lock or anything.

[Jeff_Know1 · Accepted solution]

Press the 'Caps Lock' key while using one of the brushes. It toggles between a circle and a crosshair view.

If it's always wrong when opening Photoshop change the default behavior in Edit --> Preferences --> Cursors. There you can select 'Normal Brush Tip'.

[NitinGupta7]

Jeff_Know1, seems to be telling the right solution, mine was the longer way though.

@Jeff A Wright: Yes  That was from Photoshop, It is more less same with most of the apps.

Cheers

LP

[AllanKinghorn]

Thank you

That is helpful.

I have now done this and it has worked.

Allan

[noor26517982ysh8]

thank you very much 

[zehya280105742zvq]

in my paint.net program my paintbrush is making squares instead of a circle.  Like pixels.  I’ve even tried reloading the program.  How do I fix it back to a circle.  The caps lock doesn’t work for psin.net.  Thank you 

[razzell2]

so simple, and yet you kept me from going insane with your reply and fix.  i was literally going nuts trying to figure out what i did to change it.  thanks much

[teamLOVE]

January 2017, just did update. Photoshop CC.  Seems to not work permanently with the caps lock. It keeps bouncing back to the X, after one click. Has anyone found a new fix for this? thanks

[LBDuxbury]

I'm having the same problem since I updated!

[Trevor.Dennis]

jahni88  wrote

January 2017, just did update. Photoshop CC.  Seems to not work permanently with the caps lock. It keeps bouncing back to the X, after one click. Has anyone found a new fix for this? thanks

Hi Jahn and LBDuxbury

Would one of you start a new thread for this please?  Your issue appears to be a bug and not related to the age old problem of the Caps Lock key causing just the cross hair cursor to show.  Please tell us your operating system, plus updates, and what exactly you do that causes this issue?

Your description above is a little ambiguous, and we need to know what tool you are using, the workflow and what happens and at what stage.

Thanks

[LBDuxbury]

Yes, I will start a new thread. In response.

1. It's definitely not fixed by the cap locks key.

2. I attempted to fix it in the preferences and that did not work.

3. I'm having the issue in Photoshop using an  iMac iMac (OS Sierra version 10.12.4). The Apple update was the start of my issues and not the Adobe update.

[REELMOVE]

bless you.

[Alex2]

Thank you! this did the trick!

[78leeave]

thanks it worked!!!!! i felt sooo stuck

[marykayeee]

Finally!  Somebody who understands the question and has an answer. Thanks Jeff!

[shammahw28670808]

Hey I'm having the same problem, and when i clicked caps lock the circle of the brush poped up bu when i moved the curser it went away. How do can I make it stay a circular brush?

[shammahw28670808]

Never mind it worked, I have to keyboards so the caps lock has to be selected or unselected specificly on the mac for it to work not an outside keyboard. 

[Liberatto]

This worked!!! almost reinstalled Photoshop because of this, thank you so much, I had already looked everywhere, I wouldn't have thought of this

[defaultxe3e5p1utzfo]

Thank you.  Couldn't figure out what I did.  I have no Caps Lock light or indicator, and I never gave it a thought.  So annoying, but a simple a fix.