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Question

My smoothing option for brush is not working

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
February 5, 2025
4 replies
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My smoothing option is not greyed out it can be put at 100% but the behaviour of the brush stays the same as with smoothing turned off. I just want this "Lazy Mouse" how can I get this to work? Because on my old PC it worked but now on my macbook it is just not working since I installed it. It is just smoothing out the last part of my drawing which is weird as well (shown in the video)

Here is a video showing my issue: https://imgur.com/a/lHrpMMS

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tomnsf

Participant

I had the same issue. Finally tracked it down to needing to enable the Smoothing checkbox.

Such lame UX to disable some feature and then offer no hover help as to WHY it’s not available.

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madebyskull

Participating Frequently

Is there any way I can fix this? Because it seems like nobody has any idea.

c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

Could you post a screen recording to illustrate what happens/fails to happen for you?

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madebyskull

Participating Frequently

i have posted 2 recordings in this thread already

Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

Try turning on the Brush Leash visability in Preferences > Cursors

That will give you a better idea of how it is working. 100% smoothing can actually make things worse because the long leash means the brush stroke will be too far behind the cursor to smoothly move through a small radius change of direction. I'm thinking this effect would be magnified with larger brushes and low spacing because of lag.

If you were still using Windows, you could use Lazy Nezumi Pro, which has much better brush smoothing than Photoshop's native feature.

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madebyskull_Author

Inspiring

Thank you for your answer, but it is still not fixed, I made another video with that setting turned on. It is just not smoothing my brush as it should. How can I fix this? Because I need the lazy mouse feature.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJN8cADmEHs

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madebyskull_Author

Inspiring

And no I am a mac user.

davescm

Community Expert

What are your settings under smoothing options (click on the cogwheel in the options bar next to the smoothing value to check)?

Dave

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madebyskull_Author

Inspiring

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madebyskull_Author

Inspiring

No, what I said was I don't see anything unusual. Sorry.

Dave

oh but that is weird. Because I just want to get this lazy mouse like in this video: https://youtu.be/oYwEB7HLzYE?t=99
But this is not what I get. Its just exatly the same result with 0 and 100% smoothing and thats weird isnt it?

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