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Need help with soft round brush

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
December 1, 2023
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I am using the newest version of Photoshop on a completely updated Windows 11 PC. I changed something but I don't know what. Now my soft round brush has a diffused looking perimeter edge and only draws about half the size inside. The hard round brush seems to be working fine. I tried a sampling of my other brushes and they all seem fine. It is only the basic soft round brush.

I checked brush settings, I reset the brush settings, I reset all the tools settings. Nothing has worked. I can't take a screenshot of the brush because when I try the actual brush disappears. I tried drawing it but I can't get that to look good enough to show the issue.

I'm hoping this makes sense to someone out there who can tell me how to reset that brush so it looks like it is supposed to, not like it was created with a diffusion pattern around it.

Please ask anything you need to help me figure this out. I appreciate all the help I can get.

Thanks,

Marcy

Windows

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Shelly37317828ofqf

Participant

Have you found a solution to this? I just had to update my Photoshop to the latest version and am DEVASTATED the soft brush is gone. I've been using that for close to 20 years as a designer and the other brushes don't come anywhere close to doing what the old brush did. Would love to know if you discovered a solution!

Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

Hi Shelly. Could you explain exactly what you are seeing, or not seeing as the case may be?

I don't think anyone is missing fully hard to fully soft control. It was more a case of confusing about what various cursor are showing.

Are you using a tablet, or mouse.

What are your brush settings, as well as what is happening in the Options bar?

If you can show us a screen shot showing your full workspace, layers panel and brush settings panel as we as some brush strokes, that should help.

J E L

Community Expert

Hi @MarcySB, is it possible to take screenshots of just your brush settings like this? Have you tried the brush on different types of images and layers?

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MarcySBAuthor

Inspiring

@J E L I have tried the brush on different layers, different documents, different colors. It even has the weird edge when I use it as an eraser. With that brush selected, I've reset the tool and then I reset all tools. That did not work either. I tried clicking the little icons to the right of both flow and opacity. The cog wheel to the right of smoothing options is grayed out.

Here are the screen shots you asked for.

Top options bar:

Brush Tip Shape:

Shape Dynamics:

The only other thing checked is smoothing and that just clicks on and off.

I'd rather not uninstall and reinstall Photoshop if I can avoid it but that is all I can think of to do next.

I really appreciate your taking the time to help with this.

Marcy

Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

@J E L OK, let me try to address these one at a time.

Yes, it happens whatever brush size I use. It even happened when I used the soft round brush as an eraser. I also tried it at several hardnesses. It seems to be there all the way to 100%. With each step - I went up in 25's - the amount of

It actually did not have anything to do with the operating system. I just wanted to be sure whoever answered knew I was using the most up-to-date version of Windows 11. It actually happened when I was trying to do something in the brush options bar. I clicked something, or several somethings, and that is when it went wonky.

I do not know how to do a full preferences reset. I also did not know avbout the Creative Cloud Cleaning Tool. I'll look them up and try them.

I have the latest GPU driver and have Studio not Gaming installed. Interestingly, to that point, this GPU has never seen Photoshop. It sees Lightroom and Davince Resolve, but not Photoshop when I search for apps. But that has been since November 2022 so I don't think that has anything to do with this issue, which started much more recently.

There are just too many variables here - Photoshop, brushes, GPU, Wacom tablet. I had them all way before this started. It is starting to look like I may have to actually reinstall Photoshop. I did not want to but I can't think of anything else. I do a lot of composting and this brush is getting very annyoing. I wish I could figure out some way to show it.

I just had an idea. Since I could not get a screen shot to work, I took a photo of my screen and am attaching it here. The brush was at 600 size and 0% hardness. Hopefully that will help show you how my soft round brush now looks. The first photo is the brush. The second it when I tapped it once. (They are not great photos. They both have moire effects from either the phone or the window - please ignore those. Just look at the edge of the brush and the little white that showed up in the tapped photo.)

Thanks.

Hi Marci. So what do you think is not looking like you think it should look? Only your screen shots are looking noral for a full size cursor. I use full size with cross hair turned on, and this is what I see. Yours on the left, mine on the right. That's one click with the mouse. Am I missing something here?

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