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Mouse cursor keep flickering when using brush in photoshop.

Community Beginner ,
Oct 19, 2021 Oct 19, 2021

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I'm using a Wacom intuos med pro and when I'm drawing in photoshop with the brush tool the generic mouse cursor from windows 10 keeps flickering in and out instead of the photoshop brush cursor. It's like it registering as a mouse click as I am drawing. Sometimes the mouse cursor becomes persistent throughout the whole stroke instead of the brush. I have windows ink turned off in my Wacom settings, but it still does the flickering with and without Ink turned on. All wacom/nvidia drivers are up to date and photoshop is fully updated. 

 

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated, it's quite distracting when drawing. 

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Oct 21, 2021 Oct 21, 2021

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Hi, sorry about that
I don’t have a solution, but maybe if you try to reset the preferences will work, here the instructions:
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/preferences.html

Also if you install a previous version you will see if is Photoshop the problem.
Go to the creative cloud app and click on the 3 dots next to Photoshop app to see more options and select other versions
you can install a previous version of Photoshop and maybe that will work, sometimes there are bugs and you have to update the system
Let me know if that works

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Nov 10, 2021 Nov 10, 2021

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Hey Eugenio!

 

Thanks so much for the tips, resetting the photoshop preferences actually worked! I tried reverting the settings, but the flickering came back. So I had to recreate all my shortcuts and other preferences. All good though, so glad I can draw without the annoying arrow popping up everytime! 

 

Cheers,

Ian

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Feb 29, 2024 Feb 29, 2024

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I've been having this problem from time to time. From what I noticed, the problem appears when I put on a video on my second monitor, put it on full screen mode, then switch (or click or hover and click) back to Photoshop. 

These are my solutions so far (I'm not even sure if they all work, if they work in a specific order or by change to be honest. I haven't quite pin pointed the source of the problem, so it's a trial and error for me):

- Clicking back on the full screen video (to pause, then play), and switch back to PS.
- Switching desktop space (Mission Control feature) by pressing 'Control + Left Arrow'.
- Quit full screen mode on the video and putting it back. Then switching back to PS.
- Litterally restarting Chrome or Apple TV since these are the two apps I use to watch videos.

Restarting PS did not solve the problem for me, unless I would try at least one of the above. 
I had more luck with the 2 first. Good luck lol

Mac Studio M1 Max - OS 14.2.1

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