Brush acting like a real paint brush

[Graham]

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.

[Damien Symonds]

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?

[Graham]

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

[Damien Symonds]

http://www.damiensymonds.net/2011/01/cursor-preferences.html

[Graham]

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.

[Graham]

And if I try and do a print screen the brush image turns to a black triangle and a square

[Damien Symonds]

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.

[Graham]

Going to restart the computer, cannot even get print screen to work.

[Damien Symonds]

Can you do this for me?  http://www.damiensymonds.net/thread1.html

[Graham]

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.

[Damien Symonds]

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?

[Graham]

[Graham]

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.

[Damien Symonds]

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?

[Graham]

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.

[Damien Symonds]

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?

[Graham]

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.

[Damien Symonds]

Interesting.  Ok, thanks.