I have CS3 beta on two of my macs. I've gone through the preferences and tried every cursor setting they offer for brushes but I can still only see the tiny cross hair... It's driving me nuts as I can't see the size and/or exact shape of the brush I am using.

Has anyone else had this problem???

Please HELP!!!!!

Thanks,
RW

Rob, I think I've had this problem as well but in CS2 and I was on the verge of going mad. The fix for me was simply turning off the caps lock. You can always google Photoshop Shortcuts, though there are a ton of shortcuts out there and fishing through all of them can take a while. Let us know if that worked for you or if I'm way off.

Ron

Unless they've fixed it... it is a bug in PS-CS3.

In PS-CS2 and older, check the cap locks key. Should be OFF.

In PS-CS3 - you're hosed until they come up with a patch. Which is why I went back to PS-CS2 until they get it fixed.

Is this just an issue with the Beta or with the normal program too?

Nice to know I wasn't going crazy, although I never use CAPS lock... at least I don't I do.

Well, I just got CS2 so maybe things changed...but in PS 7 there was a preference window which I believe was under "File" to change between the circle brush and the crosshair brush.

Hope this helps.

Thanks all! I must be suffering from the glitch in the beta. Hopefully they will have it fixed in the "shipping" version since it's coming out shortly.

Gonna suffer w/CS2 til then I guess...lol



RW

Troy, it looks like you are right, not that I doubted you. I did a little searching online and it appears this topic has hit quite a few other forums. Seems like the dumbest bug to let slip. That's what you get with new software I guess.

I've seen it on every best version I've used so far. I think it is a well placed bug. There is such an easy fix out there to make the beta version that is supposed to have a time limit on it into a full version with no time limit. If I were Adobe, I'ld place a few bugs in the system that would be so difficult to deal with that it wouldn't be worth hacking it to have it for free. Know what I mean?

The new version is super sweet though. I'm going to go ahead and preorder a copy.

Cheers,
Zack

Yep, I think that's what they did, too. Maybe we're conspiracy theorists, Zack

It's pretty damn annoying, that's for sure.

If you are running PS CS3 on a MAc Intel what you are experiencing is a Beta bug. In order to correct that problem you have to run CS3 under rosseta, That will take car of the problem.

Those running CS3 on a G5 or earlier MAC should not have that problem.

Here is the solution: (Only for Intel MACs)

(1) Go to the "Applications" folder on your main HD.
(2)Find the blue "Adobe Photoshop CS3" folder and open it. Inside you will see the icon for "Adobe Photoshop CS3" program. Right click (or Control - click) on it and select "Get info".
(3)Under "General" you will see the option "Open using Rosetta". Select it.

Now you should see the brushes, healing tool, erassor, etc as they should.

The only thing is that CS3 won't run Intel native which means it will run slower but in my experience still faster than CS2 does.

Adobe is aware of the bug and asures that it will be fiz when the final version releases (This fix is in their website).