Photoshop Cursor.

[Hobson171]

My cursor has gone from a single cross to a single cross with a smaller cross in the bottom right hand side of it. I can't get rid of it. Any ideas would be appreciated.

[c.pfaffenbichler]

Could you please post a screenshot including the pertinent Panels to illustrate the issue? 

What are the Photoshop > Preferences > Cursors settings? 

[pixxxelschubser]

This one

[c.pfaffenbichler]

Please post a screenshot including the pertinent Panels to illustrate the issue. 

Because (as Melissa Piccone pointed out) so far we do not know which Tool you are using and not what the cursor actually looks like. 

[melissapiccone]

What tool are you using? Caps lock for the cross?

[Hobson171]

[Hobson171]

This is the problem:

[pixxxelschubser]

Hahaha.

😄

Thanks, but this is more a stamp than a sceenshot.

What tool do you want to use on your text layer?

[Hobson171]

I'm not an expert. Mainly stick to a few basics. Today I was attempting to put a speech bubble in a photo, which I managed to do, but at the end of it, my pointer/cursor looked as it does in the above diagram, i.e 2 crosses instead of 1. Also I noticed, if I select a photo, say for cropping, I now have to manually deselect it if I change my mind. Up until today it would deselect the photo the second I clicked on another part of the screen.

[pixxxelschubser]

Look at the control bar. There are several icons for different modi eg New, Add, Substract ...

It seems you cursor is in mode Add

Click on New and your cursor should change to "Normal"

[Hobson171]

You've fixed it.

Many, many thanks.

You're a genius!

All those hours of frustration and swearing have now disappeared.

Thanks again.