Photoshop CS 3 on Mac - Seeing the brush / tool problems

I switched to Mac a long time ago and have been very happy. One thing I have never got sorted is viewing the brush/tool/whatever I am using.

When I am not zoomed in close, my cursor disappears when I move it over the image. Whereas I would see a big circle in windows (representing the pixel size of the brush) for some reason I do not see it in Mac OS X unless I am zoomed in to 50% or more.

I hope this makes sense and someone can help! Will post pics if needs be.

Cheers, H.

Thanks. I thought of that too... but I even increased my brush size to 200 pixels, and when I activate it I can see it creating a huge blob, but it disappears when I stop activating it... So in other words I can only see the effects of the brush when I am using it

Thanks all for your input.

I checked my cursor preferences and they are as posted by Colin, with full size brush selected.

I still do not see the large circle I want describing my brush. Instead I have cross-hair target in the centre and no way of visualising the actual brush size until I spray.

I the attached example the brush size was set to 200 pixels, but my only 'preview' was a small bracketed cross hair less than half this size (sorry the cross hair disappeared when I took the screen shot)

Phrasikleia said:

Yes, it has to be the caps lock toggle for painting with a cross hair. This feature is not Mac-specific; it works the same way in Windows. Just make sure that caps lock is off if you want a cursor that indicates brush size.

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My caps lock is definitely not on. OTHERWISE MY TYPING WOULD LOOK LIKE THIS

Any other ideas?

waj said:

I had the same problem when I first moved to a Mac approx 2 years ago, I made some enquiries and was told that it was a Adobe Mac version bug that appeared on the beta/trial versions that were out and about at the time and it would be fixed on the shrink wrap official release version. I made the investment and now have no problems with seeing the size of the the clone tool/brush size etc.

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Bingo! Thanks man that makes sense. I have a trial version with an 'extension'