I know it is probably a simple thing, but evidently I have done something within Photoshop that is creating trouble for me, and I'm hoping for a bit of quick help to get it fixed. My problem is that when I am doing any sort of spot work such as cloning, dodging or burning, etc. I no longer have the circle indicating that size of the area I'm working on as I sweep. Instead of the brush circle of x number of pixels, I just have a dot. I have reset everything I can think of to default, but it is still stuck.
Google searches have been no help, and my NAPP password isn't being recognized... DPC is my last resort! I have an image I may want to enter that I need to edit by midnight tonight! Thanks in advance!
Whenever I have had this issue, I have restarted photoshop, and that tends to reset the pointer. I am not sure which command causes that. . and it has frustrated me as well at times.
I tell you, if I had a buck for every time I did this inadvertently, I could buy a very good dinner! OK, at least a nice lunch, LOL. every time, it takes me a bit to realize I've hit the caps lock key (again). I think Adobe put this "feature" there specifically for the mischievous humor value!
I think Adobe put this "feature" there specifically for the mischievous humor value!
That's a funny thought, but they actually put it there to make it readily accessible; pro designers toggle back and forth between the circle and the crosshairs constantly as they work. The crosshairs are extremely useful for precision work. especial;y when you're using a high-end tablet and tracing along a line. Less so for most photographic work, but PS is, historically, a designer's tool, not a photographer's one.
I got so annoyed with it that I have physically removed (ripped out :) the Cap Lock from my keyboard! I never use it anyway!
Ya goof! You better find out who came in and airbrushed your "C" and "L" in then....the tricksters. LOL.
Dave
You NUT, Nutter! It ain't the SHIFT key she's removed, it's the freakin' CAPS LOCK thingie :-) Initial Caps are still available... She';s eccentric, but not totally barmy.
You NUT, Nutter! It ain't the SHIFT key she's removed, it's the freakin' CAPS LOCK thingie :-) Initial Caps are still available... She's eccentric, but not totally barmy.
I got so annoyed with it that I have physically removed (ripped out :) the Cap Lock from my keyboard! I never use it anyway!
Ya goof! You better find out who came in and airbrushed your "C" and "L" in then....the tricksters. LOL.
Dave
You NUT, Nutter! It ain't the SHIFT key she's removed, it's the freakin' CAPS LOCK thingie :-) Initial Caps are still available... She';s eccentric, but not totally barmy.
R.
ROFLMAO! What was I thinking! LOL. Long day at work...thanks Robert. :)
... PS is, historically, a designer's tool, not a photographer's one.
R.
Ooo ... for once I get to disagree with you -- PS was developed to handle scanned images as the print industry went to digital layouts from photo-typesetters and process camera halftones ... FreeHand, CorelDraw and Illustrator were intended as design tools, but I'm almost certain Photoshop (as the name implies) has always been a photo-editing tool, if for no other reason than it is pixel-based and not Bezier Curve-based ...
... PS is, historically, a designer's tool, not a photographer's one.
R.
Ooo ... for once I get to disagree with you -- PS was developed to handle scanned images as the print industry went to digital layouts from photo-typesetters and process camera halftones ... FreeHand, CorelDraw and Illustrator were intended as design tools, but I'm almost certain Photoshop (as the name implies) has always been a photo-editing tool, if for no other reason than it is pixel-based and not Bezier Curve-based ...
You can disagree all you want, but we're still in the same wheelhouse steering the same boat. What you're describing (electronic prepress) is part of the graphic design/production continuum. Photoshop was being used extensively in that way before it became ubiquitous as a *photographer's* tool, is all I mean to say. There was very close mapping of Illustrator and Photoshop from the beginning, as far as keyboard shortcuts and, indeed, entire functionality metaphors are concerned, because the same people were using them on the same jobs. Certainly, MY first experience of Photoshop, way back when, was in production for the print shop (Point Loma Printers) that I did the design/prepress for, long before I had a digital camera and started doing photography on the computer.
As a part of graphic design/layout/pre-press, absolutely PS (and PageMaker) were what I actually was sent to classes by my employer. I guess I interpreted "designer" in your first post more as "graphic artist/illustrator" than layout, which is what I did ...
As a part of graphic design/layout/pre-press, absolutely PS (and PageMaker) were what I actually was sent to classes by my employer. I guess I interpreted "designer" in your first post more as "graphic artist/illustrator" than layout, which is what I did ...
