Graham Posted September 12, 2016 Share Posted September 12, 2016 I have done a quick search but could not find and answer to my question. It is probably something very simple but I have not come across it before. Why is my brush now a paint brush instead of the hide/reveal brush. How do I get it back to normal? PHotoshop CC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien Symonds Posted September 12, 2016 Share Posted September 12, 2016 I'm so sorry, I have no idea what you mean by a hide/reveal brush. Maybe a screenshot would help me understand? Is it doing this on every photo you try, or only one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Posted September 12, 2016 Author Share Posted September 12, 2016 Cannot give you a screen shot Damien as I am currently reinstalling CC. However when I select the brush tool I get the image of a brush,not a circle which I usually get and although the size of this brush stays the same it will brush larger or smaller, but colour. I want to hide/reveal on a mask and it will not do so. All images Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien Symonds Posted September 12, 2016 Share Posted September 12, 2016 http://www.damiensymonds.net/2011/01/cursor-preferences.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Posted September 12, 2016 Author Share Posted September 12, 2016 That changed the appearance but not the behaviours of the brush. I have a black mask. I want to paint white on it to reveal what is underneath. I cannot because the brush is not behaviing. Now I have a nice cross instead of the brush, but it will not increase or decrease in size with the brackets and will not paint white where I want it to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Posted September 12, 2016 Author Share Posted September 12, 2016 And if I try and do a print screen the brush image turns to a black triangle and a square Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien Symonds Posted September 12, 2016 Share Posted September 12, 2016 That's ok, I don't need to see the cursor in the screenshot. I want to see everything else - the image, the layers, the toolbar, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Posted September 12, 2016 Author Share Posted September 12, 2016 Going to restart the computer, cannot even get print screen to work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien Symonds Posted September 12, 2016 Share Posted September 12, 2016 Can you do this for me? http://www.damiensymonds.net/thread1.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Posted September 12, 2016 Author Share Posted September 12, 2016 I have a PC desktop running Windows 10 and Photoshop cc 2016. It is over 2 years old, and has 16GB of RAM. Its hard drive has 608GB free out of 932GB. The last time I shut down was just before posting this thread. I run a cleanup program about once a week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien Symonds Posted September 12, 2016 Share Posted September 12, 2016 3 minutes ago, Graham said: The last time I shut down was just before posting this thread. What about before that? How long had it been? Got a screenshot for me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Graham Posted September 12, 2016 Author Share Posted September 12, 2016 I regularly restart the computer and the cleanup is done weekly. Not a screen shot and not the image I was working on, but maybe you can see the brush on the grey background to the left of the image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien Symonds Posted September 12, 2016 Share Posted September 12, 2016 Hmmm ... 2700 is a very big brush, of course. If you take it down in size, is it still the same? 49 minutes ago, Graham said: I have a black mask. I want to paint white on it to reveal what is underneath. I cannot because the brush is not behaviing. Has this additional problem cleared itself up since the restart? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Posted September 12, 2016 Author Share Posted September 12, 2016 Yes that seems to make no difference at all. Nothing has changed. I also have CS6 and that works normally. And so did CC once. I have uninstalled CC and then reinstalled, restarted the computer, reset the workspace, checked all of the preferences, now I have just reset the cursor to normal brush tip and I think it is now working again. I had it on standard and then precise before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien Symonds Posted September 12, 2016 Share Posted September 12, 2016 Are the other tools (eg the clone tool) doing the same thing? Or is it only the brush tool? Also, is it the same if you paint on a layer, rather than a mask? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Posted September 12, 2016 Author Share Posted September 12, 2016 Changing the curser back to Normal instead of standard or precision seems to have fixed it. All seems to be normal for the other tools. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien Symonds Posted September 12, 2016 Share Posted September 12, 2016 Interesting. Ok, thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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