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Anonymous
December 25, 2022
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Photoshop Brush Cursors all look pixelated

  • December 25, 2022
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The cursor for brushes/erasers/clone stamps in Photoshop 2023 just randomly started looking really chunky and pixelated? All other cursors look normal, the brushes stilll operate as normal, but the cursor looking like this is really distracting. If could get a fix for this, I'd really appreciate it. I really don't want to have to uninstall and reinstall Photoshop.

Correct answer Jeff Arola

Perhaps what your seeing is due to the addition in photoshop 24.1 of cursor settings to change the boldness of your brush outlines. Thin is what the previous versions of photoshop used.

 

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/painting-tools.html#cursor-preference

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Anonymous
December 25, 2022

I changed the brush tip outline to thin and updated my graphics driver and the problem seems to be resolved,  though I couldn't tell you which of these fixed it, lol.

    ElizabethOOOG
    ElizabethOOOG
    Known Participant
    December 25, 2022

    Outdated graphic board. Might be incompatible. 

    Okay
    ElizabethOOOG
    ElizabethOOOG
    Known Participant
    December 25, 2022

    Make sure you have the brush tool and not pen tool. 

    Okay
    Jeff Arola
    Community Expert
    Jeff ArolaCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
    Community Expert
    December 25, 2022

    Perhaps what your seeing is due to the addition in photoshop 24.1 of cursor settings to change the boldness of your brush outlines. Thin is what the previous versions of photoshop used.

     

    https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/painting-tools.html#cursor-preference

      PECourtejoie
      Community Expert
      PECourtejoieCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      December 25, 2022

      This is the correct answer, users complained of poor visibility on neutral tones.

      TheDigitalDog
      TheDigitalDog
      Inspiring
      December 25, 2022

      Try disabling GPU in the Preferences (Performance tab). In Photoshop also go to Preferences > Technology Previews... and enable "Older GPU mode (pre 2016)" - Restart Photoshop. Any better?

      You can try this too: in Preferences>Technology Previews, check the box 'Deactivate Native Canvas' and uncheck 'Enable Native Canvas Rulers' options, then restart Photoshop. Does this work?

       

      Author “Color Management for Photographers" & "Photoshop CC Color Management/pluralsight"
      Mylenium
      Mylenium
      Legend
      December 25, 2022

      Start by checking your hardware acceleration and cursor settings in the preferences and consider updating your graphics driver. This looks like the functions can't properly support the brush preview. Anything more than that will require better information liek actual system info and the details for the mentioned settings.

       

      Mylenium

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