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olvidame

Location: Orange County, CA

Post Wed May 31, 2006 2:06 am   Reply with quote         


I have the most annoying problem with photoshop. My tools such as the pen, eraser, smudge, brush (everything) turn into a little pixel with dots around it no matter what size i make the tool, so i can't see how big it is. for example, if i pick a brush, it just shows a little pixel with dots around it so i can't see how big the brush is until i draw. this makes it almost impossible to use the tools! does anybody know why the tools go to this view?




GrampZ

Location: SoCal

Post Wed May 31, 2006 2:08 am   Reply with quote         


olvidame wrote:
I have the most annoying problem with photoshop. My tools such as the pen, eraser, smudge, brush (everything) turn into a little pixel with dots around it no matter what size i make the tool, so i can't see how big it is. for example, if i pick a brush, it just shows a little pixel with dots around it so i can't see how big the brush is until i draw. this makes it almost impossible to use the tools! does anybody know why the tools go to this view?


Make sure your cap lock is off. If it's on it will do that to your tool cursor. I beat my head against the wall for a week and then I RTFM!!!!!




olvidame

Location: Orange County, CA

Post Wed May 31, 2006 2:17 am   Reply with quote         


holy crap grampZ, that is it!!!!!!!!!!!!! thank you so much. how annoying. i was going crazy.




GrampZ

Location: SoCal

Post Wed May 31, 2006 2:23 am   Reply with quote         


olvidame wrote:
holy crap grampZ, that is it!!!!!!!!!!!!! thank you so much. how annoying. i was going crazy.


There's all kinds of wicked cool shortcuts and tricks. I have stumbled across a few but there are plenty I'm sure i have no clue about yet. The Alt, Ctl, and shift all do interesting things to your tools and functions as well.

GrampZ




splodge

Location: Yorkshire,

Post Wed May 31, 2006 7:39 am   Reply with quote         


ah! the good old CAP LOCK TRAP, hands up if you never fell for that one, i know i fell for it.
i have another one for you, normaly my scroll wheel will move my page up and down, but very occasionaly it will move the page left to right, i never did work that one out Confused




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jerry717

Location: Livonia, Michigan

Post Wed May 31, 2006 9:48 am   Reply with quote         


olvidame wrote:
I have the most annoying problem with photoshop. My tools such as the pen, eraser, smudge, brush (everything) turn into a little pixel with dots around it no matter what size i make the tool, so i can't see how big it is. for example, if i pick a brush, it just shows a little pixel with dots around it so i can't see how big the brush is until i draw. this makes it almost impossible to use the tools! does anybody know why the tools go to this view?


This is also a preference setting under the heading: "display and cursors" You can set your tools to act or display as you wish and then using the caps lock key will set them to the opposite way. It just depends on what you set as default in the preferences pane as to how the caps lock key will effect the perameters of the tool in use.

Jerry




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Post Wed May 31, 2006 9:53 am   Reply with quote         


splodge wrote:
ah! the good old CAP LOCK TRAP, hands up if you never fell for that one, i know i fell for it.
i have another one for you, normaly my scroll wheel will move my page up and down, but very occasionaly it will move the page left to right, i never did work that one out Confused


does your scroll wheel double as a button? If it does, and you click it, it switches over to horizontal scroll. Click it again, and walah, it's back to vertical. I don't think that's your problem though, I'm sure you could've figured that out.




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splodge

Location: Yorkshire,

Post Wed May 31, 2006 10:26 am   Reply with quote         


I'v tryed that mason, it dont work, even if i wanted it to scroll left to right i cant make it happen, it just does it when it wants Rolling Eyes




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TofuTheGreat

Location: Back where I belong.

Post Wed May 31, 2006 10:49 am   Reply with quote         


splodge wrote:
I'v tryed that mason, it dont work, even if i wanted it to scroll left to right i cant make it happen, it just does it when it wants Rolling Eyes


Turn your head sideways and voila! Vertical scroll again! Confused

Seriously, are you on a PC? I know that some mouse drivers will auto switch to horizontal control when the pointer is on a horizontal scroll bar (or even at the bottom of the screen). Any chance that's happening?




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Post Wed May 31, 2006 11:58 am   Reply with quote         


maybe you're holding your mouse sideways... Rolling Eyes That's strange, but that's what computers are for, right? Doing stupid, random things!




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Eve
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Location: Planet Earth

Post Wed May 31, 2006 12:16 pm   Reply with quote         


THANKS JERRY!




jerry717

Location: Livonia, Michigan

Post Wed May 31, 2006 12:59 pm   Reply with quote         


Eve

The settings have been changed in the brush control pallette. You can change them back by clicking the arrow on the pallette to activate the drop down menu. Then make sure that "expanded view" is checked and also make sure that "stroke thumbnail" is checked. That should fix your problem.

THe pallette should look like this:



Jerry




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Post Wed May 31, 2006 1:03 pm   Reply with quote         


lol that sucks, Eve! That's even worse than having to scroll through every font in a word processor until you find the one you like.




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jerry717

Location: Livonia, Michigan

Post Wed May 31, 2006 1:07 pm   Reply with quote         


mason4300 wrote:
lol that sucks, Eve! That's even worse than having to scroll through every font in a word processor until you find the one you like.


Ha!...Obviously you've never heard of font manager software. Laughing




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blue_lurker

Location: Australia

Post Wed May 31, 2006 1:11 pm   Reply with quote         


I hate the dam caps lock thingy gets me every time Im drunk or drugged or both... Razz




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