Brush Cursor Rotation - Preview available?

The problem is well known:
If you are using a tablet that can detect rotation of the pen you can rotate the angle of your brush along with it. This is very useful in inking and painting. In CS5 you get a preview of the way the brush is rotated - but only with the bristle tip brushes. Normal brushes are completely static in preview. When starting the stroke the preview freezes completely however.
Is there any way to fix this? What reason is there it is not already happening?
This is annoying me no end, as I bought the a wacom art pan to that particular end and now I cannot properly use it. Please fix this, if possible.

"This is expected behavior. Unfortunately it would be too big of a performance hit to update the cursor during painting."
So I can only assume by that statement that this feature has actually been created but not implemented into CS6 do to performance issues? I honestly believe that the minds of Adobe can write this feature without having performance issues if Corel Painter can do it. Also looking at the new features and gpu enhancements, why would performance be an issue? This is a beta, at least have the option be available to use or not use for users .
" Is there an option that allows your Brush Cursor to stay active while you paint? If not, will this option be available?"
The first question was answered but not the second question.
Thanks for your quick responce M Shaw

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Brush Cursor rotation while painting?

I am using a Wacom Cintiq with Wacom's Art Pen (Art Pen allows PS bushes to read full rotation). When I hover over and rotate my pen I can see the Brush Cursor rotate and move but when I place a stroke down the cursor does not move or rotate with the stroke. Is there an option that allows your Brush Cursor to stay active while you paint? If not, will this option be available?
Mac OS X 10.7.3
2.5 GHz Intel Core i7
16gb 1333 MHz DDR3
AMD Radeon HD 6770M 1024 MB

"This is expected behavior. Unfortunately it would be too big of a performance hit to update the cursor during painting."
So I can only assume by that statement that this feature has actually been created but not implemented into CS6 do to performance issues? I honestly believe that the minds of Adobe can write this feature without having performance issues if Corel Painter can do it. Also looking at the new features and gpu enhancements, why would performance be an issue? This is a beta, at least have the option be available to use or not use for users .
" Is there an option that allows your Brush Cursor to stay active while you paint? If not, will this option be available?"
The first question was answered but not the second question.
Thanks for your quick responce M Shaw

Brush Cursor - Art Pen Rotation

Hi !
Today I downloaded the trial of PS CS5.
I think its a really great step for digital painting and I love
the new bristle and mixer brushes-
But one thing really disappointed me. I´m using a Wacom Art Pen to control
the angle of the brushes by the rotation of the pen.
When I first tried a Bristle Brush, I was really happy that i was able to rotate
the brush cursor with my pen.. but when i started painting, the brush stopped rotating
and stayed in the initial direction.
Even worse: The normal brushes are still as static as in the previous Photoshop versions.
By not showing the rotation of the brush, it is really hard to set an precise brush stroke
with the right angle.
Am i missing something, it is a bug or is Adobe still planing not to change this disadvantage ?
Best regards,
Florian

I think the question about the CPU was directed at another poster, but mine is a new Dell with a fast processor and fast card. It works great with the bristle brushes.
I'll give you an example of what I need to do. If I were to make a new brush out of the words "AIR MAIL" and want to rubber stamp those words around on my image at specific places and at specific angles, I need the ghost outline of the AIR MAIL brush to rotate on the fly as I rotate the barrel of the pen. When I click once on the screen, I want the lettering to rubber stamp the image in the color of choice and relative to the amout of pressure I apply, but I want to be in control of the angle the rubber stamp is applied.
So, I can't use the brushes "randomizer" feature because I want to know and control exactly where and how the imprint will be applied.
The AIR MAIL stamp is only a visual example of what I am needing to do. In reality, I have some spatter brushes that are essentially different on all sides. I am using that kind of brush to paint in a layer mask around the edges on an image layer to reveal the white background layer underneath. I need to be able to see exactly what part of the brush is being painted in with black and rotate it regularly to keep from getting too many repetitive strokes. I don't need these brushes to tilt, only rotate as I rotate the pen in my fingers, but I definitely need the ghost preview of the brush on the screen before I apply it.
Currently, I am only seeing the rotation behavior I need when using one of the eight or nine special bristle brushes.
I am using Windows 7 Ultimate with Adobe Photoshop CS5
Memory - 12GB Tri-Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1066MHz - 6 DIMMs
Processor - Studio XPS 9000, Intel Core i7-920 processor (8MB L3 Cache 2.66GHz)
Video: NVIDIA GeForce GTX260
Tablet: Intuos4 Medium with Art Pen
Thanks again,
M. Jackson

Regular (not art) brush "ghost" cursor rotation

This feature has actually been requested and discussed elsewhere in the Photoshop forums, but it's worth mentioning again, one, and two, I don't think it's utility has been fully explained.
Chris Cox, who works for Adobe, explained that OS mouse cursor limitations make this feature dififcult to impliment properly. I don't understand the issue well enough to comment, but I can't see why the OPTION shouldn't exist (even if it slows the cursor dramatically).
I frequently use custom brushes for texture and collage work (say, ink splatter brushes or leaves or whatever). You can get a lot more life out of a brush if it can be rotated, so that the textures don't look repetitive.
But here's the key thing -- it's VERY important that you can see the angle of the brush -- a leaf, say, may have a rounded bottom and pointy tips. If you're using it as an eraser to create a jagged edge, for example, you need to know that the pointy tip is facing the correct side. Doing this blind is obviously a chore. What's more, the cursor doesn't need to be especially responsive as I'm basically just stamping with the brush, rather than fluidly painting with it.
I have to imagine that the already existing OpenGL support could help greatly here. I mean, if realtime canvas rotation is possible, rotation a cursor ghost shouldn't be THAT hard, right?
P.S. Corel Painter doesn't exactly do this well either (with custom "capture dabs"), so the feature would be an way for Photoshop to jump further ahead.

Thanks for the response -- I agree that in general responsiveness does matter. What I was saying is that if cursor lag is an insurmountable problem, leaving it as an option would still be helpful as there are many times when even a sluggish (but accurate) cursor ghost would be of immense help.
You could also come up with a hybrid solution. Create a static brush cursor outline (as exists now), but create an option to superimpose an arrow over it that indicates rotation direction. While not perfect, I imagine my brain would grow used to it pretty quickly.
I realize that these features are harder to impliment than they sound, and that Photoshop's primary audience is Photographers, not painters, so I appreciate Adobe's willingness to at least consider the feature.

Double brush cursor

I am seeing a double brush cursor in CS5; why? and how do I get rid of it?
It's not the clone tool, it's the brush.
When I resize my brush to a certain size (different sizes for different images) a duplicate brush suddenly appears in the top left corner of my screen and resizes with the brush as I resize it up and down.
Also, if I zoom into my image, suddenly the duplicate brush will appear in the top left of my screen with the same behaviour.
Different images behave differently but it appears to be once I get to a certain size on any image this duplicate brush cursor appears top left of screen and makes it very difficult for me to access menu and tool options.

Hi all, system spec as below, I also have Niksoft plugins but have had them for over a year without this problem, I have not installed anything new lately either.
Adobe Photoshop Version: 12.1 (12.1x20110328 [20110328.r.145 2011/03/28:10:30:00 cutoff; r branch]) x64
Operating System: Windows 7 64-bit
Version: 6.1 Service Pack 1
System architecture: Intel CPU Family:6, Model:10, Stepping:7 with MMX, SSE Integer, SSE FP, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2
Physical processor count: 8
Processor speed: 3400 MHz
Built-in memory: 15523 MB
Free memory: 12926 MB
Memory available to Photoshop: 13916 MB
Memory used by Photoshop: 71 %
Image tile size: 1024K
Image cache levels: 6
OpenGL Drawing: Disabled.
OpenGL Drawing Mode: Basic
OpenGL Allow Normal Mode: True.
OpenGL Allow Advanced Mode: False.
OpenGL Crash File: Not Detected.
OpenGL Allow Old GPUs: Not Detected.
Video Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Video Card Renderer: GeForce GTX 560 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
Display: 2
Display Bounds:= top: 0, left: 0, bottom: 1200, right: 1920
Display: 1
Display Bounds:= top: 0, left: 1920, bottom: 1080, right: 3840
Video Card Number: 1
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Driver Version: 9.18.13.1106
Driver Date: 20130118000000.000000-000
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Aperture 3.6: Disappearing Brush Cursor

I experience the following issue with brushes in Aperture:
In full-screen mode the brush only gets bigger to a certain amount, than does not visibly get bigger any more. If I try to paint with it, I can only see the standard mouse-pointer. The brush though, paints in the selected size. This is of course out of control, cause I can't really see what I am doing there. The brush works fine to a rather small brush size.
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Rainer

Hi,
the problem is solved - or maybe it disappeared just so. I made two changes to my machine:
First I got rid of x-rite profiling software and the running services wich came w/ the calibration software. I just did this, because the services caused lots of dumps and console messages.
Then I changed the preview size in Aperture preferences to "don't limit"; I had them limited to "half-size". I just guessed that using my library from a machine with a much bigger resolution (imac 5K) could have anything to do w/ my problem.
I did NOT generate new previews or had my originals newly developed. At least I did not tell Aperture to do so.
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Pen tool, Rounded ractangle and Brush cursor.

Hi, Good Day.
There are things that I want to say about using CS4.
1.   Pen tool.
In Photoshop 5.0, I found that it is faster to <stroke path> compared to the newer version of PS. In PS 5.0, I never need to exit pen tool mode whenever I wanted to select the brush sizes. The Brush size Selection 'tray' tab is always available even when I’ve exit the brush mode. Thus make the stroke works become faster, simpler and easier.
And this is not happen in CS4. What I see is when every time I want to stroke the paths, to choose the brush size I must exit the pen tool mode ; and when I’m back the pen tool mode again, the brush option tray will gone. This slows me every time when I want to choose brush or when I want to re-correct or to re-stroke in order for looking the right brush size and style; it's really complicates me.
So, can Adobe do something about the Brush Selection tab so it always availed like other tabs, like PS5.0 do? Which like swatches tab, color tab, etc.. So it wouldn’t go off next time when we exit the brush mode; thus saves time.
2.   Rounded rectangle.
Problem: I want to modify my rounded rectangle shape by adjusting the all the four rounded edges evenly without ruining the square shape. The problem is the shape is too free, the points are working individually and paths are “flabby”.
Can someone tell me know how to lock the shape?
It’s like what in Microsoft Word do. The rounded rectangle lines can be locked so I can adjust the edges to be rounder and rounder, whether partly or simultaneously.
3.     Brush cursor.
I found that the brush cursor seem to be ‘unstable’; which is that the PS will change the Normal brush cursor to the Precise brush cursor when I’m using the Text tool, and I can’t change the cursor back to Normal cursor again after exiting the text tool and I'm also not on the text layer. And sometimes this problem happens even when I’m not using the Text tool; for example when I’m doing some copy and paste job.
The only solution is to close PS and restart my computer. What I should do?
Thanks for your concern.

Hi Bion_s,
In the course of playing around in Illustrator to find a solution, I found that if you open your appearance panel (Window > Appearance), select the fly-out menu and deselect New Art has Basic Appearance.
I found that with this option unselected, you can select your stroke width and profile and draw multiple times without it reverting to the default stroke!
Please let me know if this works for you. I'm not sure how this might affect your workflow on other projects, but it did result in the behavior you seemed to want.
Cheers,
Michael

Brush Cursor Disappears while Enlarging It

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http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
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If i have the external screen powered off during boot up, and power the screen on manually afterwards, the brush issue is not there
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My brush cursor disappear when i zoom in

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When I used my circle brush tool before, I can see the size of my brush in a circle so
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See the image before.
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Additional Info - after working on this problem for 4 hours, I shut my laptop in frustration and took a break. 1 hour later I opened my mac and the cursor had magically returned. No restart, no power on/off - nothing. Frustration. If anyone else has had this happen and has actually fixed the problem let me know. I'm sure it will reoccur.

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