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Problem with brushes - weird, slightly off brush strokes

Forum|Forum|8 months ago
June 22, 2025
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Hello!
I have a weird problem with my favourite brushes (Kyle’s megapack) - all of a sudden they do not look quite as they are supposed to and used to look. Every brush is just a little off and especially the pencils are way too grainy and kind of fuzzy.
- see screenshot: on the left, zoomed in - how it should and used to paint/draw - on the right how they are drawing now.

I did not change the brush settings !
The mode (dt: Modus) is set to normal, opacity (Deckkraft), flow (Fluss), noise (Glättung)… everything normal, can’t find anything wrong. And I am going slightly mad. 🙂
- See 2nd screenshot -

The documents are 300 dpi, 2480 x 3508 pixels (DIN A4) - so it is not a resolution issue.
Hard&Software info: new MacBook Pro, sequoia, PS 2025 - brushes seemed to be working fine… until yesterday.

Deleted and re-uploaded the brush set twice - no difference.

Maybe I hit a weird key-combination or something. But could not find anything helpful browsing the forums and the web.

Thanks for any tips and hints in advance!

macOS

Jeff Arola

Community Expert

Looks like you have you image zoomed in quite a bit, 362%

If you zoom the image to 100% (View>100%) how do the brush strokes look?

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ing_aAuthor

Participant

Zooming in or out really doesn’t matter here. In the first pic I uploaded on the left side: how it used to work, on the right side (where I wrote “wrong“ ) how it is behaving now. Screenshot is from the same document, the brushes just changed for what ever reason. (Also I have to zoom in, for illustrations / print stuff especially.)

Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

I was thinking that the tool was in Dissolve mode, but that appears not to be the case in your screen shot. The layer could be in dissolve mode though.

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ing_aAuthor

Participant

Thank you, but nothing is on dissolve. layers, mode... all set to “normal“. 😞

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LAMY2017

Legend

Curious! In my experience, sleuthing will turn up the reason for "all of a sudden." Aside from solar flares or random sub-atomic particles hitting the precise point in your CPU or video driver system, one can usually find a reason. Change in screen resolution; installation of updates (Ps v26.8 was released within the last few days).

Like prayer, one of the last things we try is resetting Settings(Preferences).

Larry

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ing_aAuthor

Participant

Hi Larry!

Well I did just set up my new macbook during the last couple of days, just got it this week.
Maybe the brushes don’t work properly under sequoia or the new PS? Hm, but they did, for a day or so. Only thing I did between starting sketching and the occurrence of the weird brush changes is downloading the other adobe design programs from creative suit (indd, illustrator, acrobat). That can’t be a reason either…
Screen res is fine - (if it wasn’t, the ‚old‘ brushstroke from the sketch, other pictures etc. would look different then too.)

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LAMY2017

Legend

Did you try reinstalling the megapack?

I found two "megapacks" in my brief search --

Kyle's Megapack 2018:
Get the latest brushes in the Megapack

"Last updated on May 24, 2023

Background

If you downloaded the brush Megapack from Kyle T. Webster before April 17 2018, you must download and install an update to it. Your Megapack is already up-to-date if you installed it on or after April 17 2018."

Adobe Photoshop - Make your mark with Photoshop brushes

"Over 300 tools covering a wide range of media, including pencils, pastels, charcoal, inks, oils, and watercolors. Also contains..."

[Clicking on the icon for the package shows nothing further, no details. Skuttlebutt on the web says that Kyle was contracted by Adobe, then was absorbed and he was cut out of the picture]

Larry

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