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May 16, 2018
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Pencil brushes suddenly messed up

  • May 16, 2018
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I was sketching using the brush tool, when suddenly my brushes turned all messed up. I've been messing with the settings ever since and I can't find a solution, no solutions to be found on the internet either.

The brushes are all now smoothed out and sizing them up only causes (on the bottom image to the right) to happen. Is this a bug or am I just too much of an idiot to see the obvious issue here?

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    Correct answer JJMack

    The size has always been 1890:1417, no and no. This effect is still showing up continuously and affects every brush, on every document. It feels like I've activated some keyboard shortcut that affects all brushes, after disabling the "texture" setting for example, all the pencils (by "pencil" I mean the ones with pencils/brushes as thumbnails, as opposed to the ones that show the shape) look like this:


    With a document 1890:1417 with a 300DPI resolution with a pencil set to a 10 PX, 10% softness,  Erodible Point, Sharpen Tip , 10% spacing.  My stroke looks like the preview stroke in the Brush serring palette.

    Nothing like you show.

    Changing to a 10px Brush with the same setting  I see a smoother stroke then  you show and you still have not answered what resolution you are editing your  document at.

    Resetting All tool changed what my pencil does. It now looks more like your's looks. Still the pencil stroke look like the previews stroke in the Brush setting palette.

    A bad side effect of resetting all tools is it also turns off my zoom resizes windows preference.  Resetting a tool IMO should not change my zoom preference. I have always felt that is a Photoshop bug.

    Resolution does not seem to matter like it would for text. Brush and pencil seem to deal with absolute pixel  they are  not complicated like vector fonts font size where document resolution plays a big part. For you have many more pixel per square inch in a high resolution 6"x4"  image then you do in a low resolution image the same  6"x4" size

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    JJMack
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    Community Expert
    May 16, 2018

    What is the size and resolution of the document you are editing?

    JJMack
    Participant
    May 16, 2018

    For this sketch I just used the "Default Photoshop Size" that was pre-highlighted when I created it. In the second image I posted on the original question you can see to the left how the brush looked before the sudden change, which is more sharp.

    JJMack
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    Community Expert
    May 17, 2018

    What is the size and resolution of the document? Was that changed? Was your document resampled?

    JJMack