Pulp To Pixels

There is a nasty bug in Pho­to­shop CS4 regard­ing cur­sors when using a brush—the icon depict­ing the coor­di­nates for the cur­sor and where the cur­sor actu­ally affects your art­work is off­set by roughly 10 to 15 pixels.

Some qual­ity time spent with the Google turned up a few other peo­ple hav­ing the same prob­lems with a com­mon thread being it affects Mac users with cer­tain graph­ics cards. I run Pho­to­shop CS4 on Mac OS X10.5.7 pow­ered by a dual proces­sor 1.8 GHz PPC with a GeForce 6800 GT pow­er­ing a sin­gle 30″ Cin­ema Dis­play. I have Pho­to­shop set to dis­play Full Size Brush Tip+Show Crosshairs in Brush Tip and can see the off­set. This bug affects any tool which uses a brush; cloning, stamp­ing, mask­ing, brushes, etc.

Adobe has yet to acknowl­edge the bug exists. In the mean­time, the only solu­tion which seems to have pre­sented itself is to jump around Full Screen (F) modes a few times to “reset” the cur­sor. Lets hope there is a patch in the works already, along with the one for Ver­sion Cue.

About the author

Jeff designs print and web expe­ri­ences for a vari­ety of clients and enjoys shar­ing what he learns along the way. He entered the indus­try at the split of web design from graphic design occurred and is now fas­ci­nated as the two dis­ci­plines are on the cusp of com­ing full cir­cle to merge into a new, media savvy gen­er­a­tion of design­ers. When not crazy busy, Jeff likes geo­caching and con­sum­ing copi­ous amounts of cof­fee. You should fol­low him on Twit­ter and Facebook.

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