My brush has no colour to indicate hardness

[John Dudley]

When I open a brush or clone stamp etc and go to resize or change the hardness I have no red (or any colour) blob in the circle that indicates the hardness

I get the numbers in the box that tells me the size and hardness but no visual indication with a red fuzzy blob

I have opened up the preferences / cursor diog box and have the red colour selected but nothing I can do can make the coloured blob appear

Help !!

[Guest]

Hi

What version of Photoshop and OS do you have, have resetting the Tools

[JJMack]

Do you have a Color set in your Photoshop and are you using a Right Click and dragging you pen near the tablet surface up and down, and left and right to set size and hardness? I see a brush preview on my  Windows 10 CC 2019 machine.

[John Dudley]

I have the latest version of CC classic and I am running windows 10

I have the preferences diog box exactly as shown by JJMack but it does no have the big red fuzzy blob

[John Dudley]

sorry should have added that it does not have the big white circle around the blob either...

[c.pfaffenbichler]

Once again:

Does Photoshop use the GPU? (Photoshop > Preferences > …)

[JJMack]

As been posted you need your GPU enabled without it I get no  red color just get the brush cursor outline and the current Size, hardness and opacity values

[Guest]

The OP mentioned that he/she is not seeing the white cursor either

"sorry should have added that it does not have the big white circle around the blob either..."

[JJMack]

They wrote they get the numbers no color blob no mention about the ring.

[John Dudley]

Hmmm - I'm being a bit dull here I can't see how to enable my GPU (also not sure what a GPU is !!)

I have tweaked my performance setting to match the picture you put up but still no joy

Thank you for your help and patience so far

[JJMack]

Your circle could be off screen  and your preferences may be messed up Editing your Preferences meay not be working correctly. Please reset your Photoshop preferences when Photoshop restarts be sure in your Photoshop performance section Use Graphic Processor is checked....

[John Dudley]

GREAT !!

I reset all preferences (took a few goes to get it right) and my fuzzy red blob has appeared

Many many thanks for your help

[JJMack]

When you enable your GPU in Photoshop preferences abs ckick OK you need to restart Photosgop fot the settint to take effect.

[c.pfaffenbichler]

Does Photoshop use the GPU? (Photoshop > Preferences > …)

[Muqqarib Hassan]

Hi, have you tried to reset photoshop preferences ?

Thanks.

[John Dudley]

I have just reset all tools and that has not resolved it

btw it's a PC not a mac

[JJMack]

OK have you reset your Photoshop Preferences in addition to all tools

[feiton41831581]

sames problem here with photoshop 2020, the brush hud preview is not working at all!! tried to reinstall photoshop, reset setings, reset brush settings, the gpu is truned on, but still nothing...

[BeckiWPhotos]

I had this problem with the latest update.  I fixed it by litterally going in and selecting a new shade of red it the cursor settings.  Now it works! 

[BeckiWPhotos]

I take it back. It did fix it but a couple of hours later it's stopped
working again and the same trick did not fix it this time.

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