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11/15/2011 04:25:47 PM · #1 |
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! |
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11/15/2011 04:27:51 PM · #2 |
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.
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11/15/2011 04:31:37 PM · #3 |
Turn off your capital lock on your keyboard.
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11/15/2011 04:34:19 PM · #4 |
Originally posted by Judi:
Turn off your capital lock on your keyboard. |
Are you serious JUDI. If it is that simple I am going to cry. LOL.
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11/15/2011 04:34:42 PM · #5 |
Thank you! It was the caps lock. I knew it was something simple!
(edit): and I'm not crying, I'm blushing!! Thanks again.
Message edited by author 2011-11-15 16:35:33. |
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11/15/2011 04:37:05 PM · #6 |
Glad to help. Crowis...I'll pass the tissues! LOL!
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11/15/2011 05:09:21 PM · #7 |
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!
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11/15/2011 05:12:15 PM · #8 |
Well, while we're at it...what causes the canvas to change to transparent and not allow you to choose a color (grayed out).
Can't figure this one out! |
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11/15/2011 05:38:09 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by Judi:
Turn off your capital lock on your keyboard. |
I got so annoyed with it that I have physically removed (ripped out :) the Cap Lock from my keyboard! I never use it anyway! |
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11/15/2011 05:57:32 PM · #10 |
Originally posted by kirbic:
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.
R.
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11/15/2011 06:16:56 PM · #11 |
Originally posted by MargaretN:
Originally posted by Judi:
Turn off your capital lock on your keyboard. |
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 |
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11/15/2011 06:59:45 PM · #12 |
Originally posted by DCNUTTER:
Originally posted by MargaretN:
Originally posted by Judi:
Turn off your capital lock on your keyboard. |
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.
Message edited by author 2011-11-15 19:03:14.
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11/15/2011 07:16:39 PM · #13 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
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. |
c'est vrai, not totally bananas yet :) |
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11/15/2011 08:10:46 PM · #14 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Originally posted by DCNUTTER:
Originally posted by MargaretN:
Originally posted by Judi:
Turn off your capital lock on your keyboard. |
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. :)
Dave |
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11/15/2011 09:01:36 PM · #15 |
| No kidding, that's it??!! Where can one find a list solutions for of all these annoying PS, um, "nuances"...???? |
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11/15/2011 10:46:33 PM · #16 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
... 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 ... |
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11/15/2011 11:33:38 PM · #17 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
... 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.
R.
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11/15/2011 11:39:40 PM · #18 |
| 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 ... |
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11/15/2011 11:47:25 PM · #19 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
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 ... |
Yeah, I worded it sloppily.
R.
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