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I'm Losing My Mind

sara505sara505 Registered Users Posts: 1,684 Major grins
edited January 2, 2011 in Finishing School
Me again, with another embarrassing question - embarrassed that after 15 years I am only now beginning to properly learn PS! I'm swimming along fine with Kelby training, retouching, whitening eyes, adding blur, then suddenly! - I have lost my brush! How do I get my brush back in CS5? I have lost the little circle that responds to sizing with the bracket keys. All I have is a little cross and it seems to be doing nothing. Thank you
Sara

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    sara505sara505 Registered Users Posts: 1,684 Major grins
    edited January 1, 2011
    sara505 wrote: »
    Me again, with another embarrassing question - embarrassed that after 15 years I am only now beginning to properly learn PS! I'm swimming along fine with Kelby training, retouching, whitening eyes, adding blur, then suddenly! - I have lost my brush! How do I get my brush back in CS5? I have lost the little circle that responds to sizing with the bracket keys. All I have is a little cross and it seems to be doing nothing. Thank you


    Okay - now I'm really going even crazier. After spending half an hour clicking on absolutely everything, trying to get the brush back - immediately after posing the above question, exposing myself as an idiot - I go back to my project and mysteriously, the brush is working and I have no idea why.
    Sara

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    RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,937 moderator
    edited January 1, 2011
    Press the Caps Lock key.
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    AFBlueAFBlue Registered Users Posts: 135 Major grins
    edited January 1, 2011
    sara505 wrote: »
    Okay - now I'm really going even crazier. After spending half an hour clicking on absolutely everything, trying to get the brush back - immediately after posing the above question, exposing myself as an idiot - I go back to my project and mysteriously, the brush is working and I have no idea why.

    Been there; done that. All too easy to hit a key, like caps lock, without realizing it and then having no idea why some important function disappeared. There are a lot of land mines out there.

    Jerry
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    basfltbasflt Registered Users Posts: 1,882 Major grins
    edited January 1, 2011
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    the reason you see the cross = the circle is to small to view
    but the brush it still there
    Bas

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    sara505sara505 Registered Users Posts: 1,684 Major grins
    edited January 1, 2011
    AFBlue wrote: »
    Been there; done that. All too easy to hit a key, like caps lock, without realizing it and then having no idea why some important function disappeared. There are a lot of land mines out there.

    Jerry

    THANK YOU! (see, I hit the caps key :D)

    Yes, land lines, indeed - meanwhile, an hour later...

    Thanks, Richard and Jerry.

    edit: that would be land MINES
    Sara

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    sara505sara505 Registered Users Posts: 1,684 Major grins
    edited January 1, 2011
    basflt wrote: »
    Untitled-2.jpg

    the reason you see the cross = the circle is to small to view
    but the brush it still there

    That's what I thought, so I kept hitting the rt. brkt. key and it went up to 2000, but I still couldn't see it.

    The other thing I'm wondering is, with CS5 you can adjust the brush by rt. clk. and Alt - drag rt. and lft. for size, up and dwn. for hardness. There's supposed to be a fill color in the brush, but I'm not getting it. ?
    Sara

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    basfltbasflt Registered Users Posts: 1,882 Major grins
    edited January 1, 2011
    what you mean with fill color , and witch brush ?
    there are many brushes and options
    Bas

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    sara505sara505 Registered Users Posts: 1,684 Major grins
    edited January 1, 2011
    basflt wrote: »
    what you mean with fill color , and witch brush ?
    there are many brushes and options

    In CS5 you can change the size of the Brush tool by pressing and holding ctrl+alt, then click and drag - right and left for larger and smaller, up and down for soft and hard.

    Theoretically, when you use this option, the center of the circle that is becoming larger or smaller is filled with red (but you can also change the color in preferences). The red doesn't show up for me. It's not life or death, but is helpful in showing the hardness and softness of the brush.
    Sara

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    pathfinderpathfinder Super Moderators Posts: 14,699 moderator
    edited January 1, 2011
    Land mines indeed!

    It is little tricks like these that are so useful to experienced users, and so aggravating to those of us who get hit with their shrapnel!
    Pathfinder - www.pathfinder.smugmug.com

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    basfltbasflt Registered Users Posts: 1,882 Major grins
    edited January 2, 2011
    ok , found it
    in preferences > performance , enable OpenGL Drawing
    Bas

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    sara505sara505 Registered Users Posts: 1,684 Major grins
    edited January 2, 2011
    basflt wrote: »
    ok , found it
    in preferences > performance , enable OpenGL Drawing

    Thanks, Bas - very helpful. :D
    Sara

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    sara505sara505 Registered Users Posts: 1,684 Major grins
    edited January 2, 2011
    sara505 wrote: »
    Thanks, Bas - very helpful. :D
    But I guess I already had it enabled, still not colored brush.
    Sara

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    basfltbasflt Registered Users Posts: 1,882 Major grins
    edited January 2, 2011
    it works for me , so there must something in your settings you have changed
    sorry , but im out of idea's

    btw
    i use alt+drag , not ctrl+alt +drag
    Bas

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    sara505sara505 Registered Users Posts: 1,684 Major grins
    edited January 2, 2011
    basflt wrote: »
    it works for me , so there must something in your settings you have changed
    sorry , but im out of idea's

    btw
    i use alt+drag , not ctrl+alt +drag

    hmm...now it works...weird. I like it!

    yeah, it's rt. clk. +crtl +alt for me.

    Thanks for hanging in there with me:D
    Sara

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