I Can’t See The Mouse Pointer

On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 20:22:54 GMT, Jethro found these
unused words floating about:

My friend has Photoshop CS2 on a WXP PRO SP2 machine. I don’t have CS2 to check him on this, but Is it proper that he can’t see the mouse-pointer ‘cross-hairs’ hardly at all as he moves them over a graphic? How can he darken the pointer? Must be a way.
Thanks

Jethro

It’s an -=OR=- function … when you’re near midtones, it disappears due to lack of contrast.

You can select a ‘larger/different set’ in preferences.

"Jethro" wrote in message

My friend has Photoshop CS2 on a WXP PRO SP2 machine. I don’t have CS2 to check him on this, but Is it proper that he can’t see the mouse-pointer ‘cross-hairs’ hardly at all as he moves them over a graphic? How can he darken the pointer? Must be a way.
Thanks

Jethro

umm no
PS claims Windows is at fault
on Mac I hear it changes color as you move it

it is extremely annoying that the cursor is medium gray as most studio backdrops in color and almost all BW images have a lot of it If you can change the grid color I think we should be able to change the cursor but NO
this is my pet peeve about PS too.

the workaround I use is to make an adjustment layer above like levels way lighter
uncheck use all layers on your retouch tool
do the dust spots etc in those areas
then dump the layer

I think most users prefer the cursor set to the Brush size choice (press caps lock) or change it in preferences.

"KatWoman" posted:

"Jethro" wrote in message

My friend has Photoshop CS2 on a WXP PRO SP2 machine. I don’t have CS2 to check him on this, but Is it proper that he can’t see the mouse-pointer ‘cross-hairs’ hardly at all as he moves them over a graphic? How can he darken the pointer? Must be a way.
Thanks

Jethro

umm no
PS claims Windows is at fault
on Mac I hear it changes color as you move it

My workaround is to use the spacebar, which calls a very visible hand at the pointer location. Now that you know where to look, you can move it.

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On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 15:43:12 -0600, Mister Max
wrote:

"KatWoman" posted:

"Jethro" wrote in message

My friend has Photoshop CS2 on a WXP PRO SP2 machine. I don’t have CS2 to check him on this, but Is it proper that he can’t see the mouse-pointer ‘cross-hairs’ hardly at all as he moves them over a graphic? How can he darken the pointer? Must be a way.
Thanks

Jethro

umm no
PS claims Windows is at fault
on Mac I hear it changes color as you move it

My workaround is to use the spacebar, which calls a very visible hand at the pointer location. Now that you know where to look, you can move it.

The spacebar -> hand is a help

Thanks

J

In article ,
says…

My friend has Photoshop CS2 on a WXP PRO SP2 machine. I don’t have CS2 to check him on this, but Is it proper that he can’t see the mouse-pointer ‘cross-hairs’ hardly at all as he moves them over a graphic? How can he darken the pointer? Must be a way.
Thanks

Jethro

Your friend is correct and it would be the same in other versions of PS on PC, running Windows (do not know about Linux). As others have stated, it is something that Adobe cannot fix, yet.

One trick is to hit Ctrl, which will turn the cursor into an arrow, while held. Works like the Spacebar/hand, but does show exactly where the cursor is positioned, as the hand covers a wider area.

I find this particularly annoying with the Clone Tool (Alt-set Clone Point) in mid-tones, or with a tiny brush. I loose the danged cursor, all of the time!

Maybe Vista will allow this problem to be addressed?

Hunt

"Hunt" wrote in message

In article ,

says…

My friend has Photoshop CS2 on a WXP PRO SP2 machine. I don’t have CS2 to check him on this, but Is it proper that he can’t see the mouse-pointer ‘cross-hairs’ hardly at all as he moves them over a graphic? How can he darken the pointer? Must be a way.
Thanks

Jethro

Your friend is correct and it would be the same in other versions of PS on PC,
running Windows (do not know about Linux). As others have stated, it is something that Adobe cannot fix, yet.

One trick is to hit Ctrl, which will turn the cursor into an arrow, while held. Works like the Spacebar/hand, but does show exactly where the cursor is
positioned, as the hand covers a wider area.

I find this particularly annoying with the Clone Tool (Alt-set Clone Point) in
mid-tones, or with a tiny brush. I loose the danged cursor, all of the time!

Maybe Vista will allow this problem to be addressed?

Hunt

Vista
bad security flaw exposed today
I am sure this is not ready for prime time yet
MS first venture to 64 bit, may take them awhile to work out the kinks, get compatible with software
etc
if it sucks as bad as the early releases of windows like 98 and ME I won’t do it at all
the OS I have now (XP pro SP2) is working well, see no reason to jump to a new one as yet…
also glad I didn’t purchase PS CS2 as the 3 version is already out……. really don’t NEED it
not sure I even want to get it
the software is pretty good in CS and does everything I need it to already I hated the PS file browser and have not used Bridge