Cursors appearing to disappear when over some colours

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brianhabby
Oct 18, 2003
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When using a cursor over certain colours or shades it becomes very difficult to see it (the cursor) because it is the same colour as the area you are working on. I would have thought it would be easy for adobe to make the cursors the opposite colour to the area you are working on but I cannot find any way to do this. Anyone have any ideas. I am using PS7
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d._wade_thompson
Oct 18, 2003
there is no way to change the cursor color. this has been a problem of mine for a long time, espescially on B&W images. what i do is create a hue/saturation ajustment layer above my image that is bright red or some color like that so i can see what i am doing.

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Phosphor
Oct 18, 2003
"I would have thought it would be easy for adobe to make the cursors the opposite colour to the area you are working on but I cannot find any way to do this." This is a shortcoming of the Windows OS, and there’s nothing Adobe can do about it.
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dave_milbut
Oct 18, 2003
and there’s nothing Adobe can do about it.

chris said he was going to try to do something w/this version. wonder if it made it in…
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wes
Oct 18, 2003
I always hit the space bar to see where the cursor is at the moment. Works pretty well. Changing colors would be nice.
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Phosphor
Oct 18, 2003
You shall see…
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James_Dodge
Oct 19, 2003
As a helpful crutch, if you press the "space bar" the "hand" will show you where your cursor resides, which should help your eyes spot it on your graphic.

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dave_milbut
Oct 19, 2003
I used to do that, til someone suggested the crtl key (move arrow pops up) now I mostly use that. The point on the arrow makes it seem more precise (easier to tell where the "hot-spot" is).
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Ho
Oct 19, 2003
Buy a Mac…
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Photo_Help
Oct 19, 2003
"I would have thought it would be easy for adobe to make the cursors the opposite colour to the area you are working on"

It does, but the opposite of 50% gray is…50% gray. All they would need to do is make the cursor never within a certain range of the color it is over by making it shift it’s color if it is. They were just lazy when they programmed the cursor logic and have probably never changed it.

Phosphor,

It isn’t a windows problem. It is just poor programming on Adobe’s part. According to Ho they have patched it on the Mac but not in the Windows version.
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LenHewitt
Oct 19, 2003
Photo_Help,

According to Ho they have patched it on the Mac but not in the Windows
version.<<

That’s because of the different O/S’s – it can be done using standard system calls on the Mac, but not on the windows platform
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Photo_Help
Oct 19, 2003
Len,

That is still just a bad excuse for poor programming. How many versions have they released with this same problem. Hopefully they finally corrected it in CS, but that still doesn’t excuse the fact that it should have been fixed a long time ago.

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