Memos From The Digital Darkroom

Since the release of Photoshop CS5 I’ve been contacted by different photographers who were experiencing the same problem. When using a brush-based tool, such as the Clone Stamp or the Brush tools, in Photoshop CS5 the brush’s cursor begins to disappear incrementally  as the size of the brush increases. The figure below illustrates what they [...]

This article is related the the Customizing Cursors in Photoshop article. I thought of mentioning it in that article, but I get so many calls about this problem that I felt it was best to discuss the issue on its own.
Has this ever happened to you: You’re merrily working away in Photoshop when your normal [...]

Last week a student in one of my workshops asked me how she could determine exactly which part of the image her Photoshop tool would affect when she clicked. The reason she was uncertain was because she was using Photoshop’s Standard cursor display.
The figure to the left shows the Brush tool with the Standard cursor [...]