Brush tool circle doesn't show up, only mouse pointer

I am running Lightroom 5.4 on OS X Mavricks. I am no longer able to see the circle when using the brush tool. Only the mouse pointer is displayed. I've made changes to the settings for the tool and stopped and restarted Lightroom, but the problem remains. Is there a setting or something I need to check?

If you haven't already, you could force-quit Quicktime by using the menu option from the desktop (finder) and choose Quicktime.
Not sure what you have frozen on the screen, be it a failed movie, or some unusual screen shot. If you can find by date (created) you may be able to look for .mov or quicktime suffix name or other video file content to delete it.
And you may have to restart your computer and perhaps run repair disk permissions from Disk Utility's first aid on the hard disk drive in your computer.
Not sure if all that would help now, but it is something a few days late...!
Good luck & happy computing!

Similar Messages

  • My CS6 Brush Tool does not sample - paints black only

    I have reset my tools individually and each tool.  Still the same - brush tool paints black only . 

    There's an odd little behaviour that can confuse, or down right drive you mad, where Alt (Opt) clicking the image with the Brush tool selected changes the 'Background' colour and not the Foreground colour.  To fix this open the Color Panel, and click on the Foreground colour, which will then become the 'active' colour and respond to Alt clicking a colour in the image.
    The difference is subtle.
    Foreground colour active
    Background colour active
    It will also depend on how you have your UI set.  With a dark UI I can see a thin white border around the active colour.  That changes to a black border with a lighter UI.  I found this one hard to track down when I first ran into it, so if new to you, commit it to memory.

  • Brush Tool Won't Drag on Trackpad Only

    I have an issue with my photoshop paint brush tool. As soon as I take my laptop off my desk and unplug my tablet, Photoshop won't let me drag the brush. I click and hold down on the trackpad and the brush won't move anywhere it just gives me one circle with the basic brush and then just stops so that I have to repeatedly click. None of my settings have changed from what they were when I had my tablet plugged in. I'm sure it's worked before as I haven't always had a Wacom tablet. Any ideas? Thank you!

    Reset the brushes by clicking on the cog icon top right corner of Brush panel.  Select any of the first four options in the panel.
    If still in trouble, reset Photoshop Preferences (Hold down Shift Alt Ctrl - Shift Opt Cmd - right after starting Photoshop.
    Tell us what operating system?
    Are you using a tablet, and which one?
    What is the image mode?  Change to RGB if not already so set.

  • Mail doesn't show time, only today

    hi,
    i hope someone can me help here again.
    we have some macs with snow leopard which have two problems in the mail application.
    1. when an new email come into mail normaliy mail show me the time stamp in the overview as example: 'today    13:23'
    but now i have the problem, mail shows me only today or yesterday. only if the time stamp ist complete, like '01. Mai 2012' the time shows up.
    i take a screenshot of that problem.
    2. the 'new message' mark isn't show. can this problem something to do with my first problem?
    os ist 10.6.8 and all updates are installed.
    i have already rebuild the database index
    thanks a lot

    It won't show on the other devices or website if enabled as POP.
    If you have it set as IMAP, open Mail account preferences and check to store messages on server in Mailbox Behaviors.

  • How do I tell Firefox to leave email messages on the server when my Tools Options doesn't show Account Settings?

    I am trying to get my emails forwarded to my Blackberry. I have set up my Blackberry with the new email destination, which Blackberry confirmed. I receive the emails are not being forwarded to my phone. When I consulted Blackberry's help, it said that I needed to go into my server setting and select the option to leave email messages on the server. I work in Firefox, and when I look under Tools, there is no option to do this.

    Firefox doesn't do email, it's a web browser.
    If you are using Firefox to access web mail, you need to seek support from your service provider or a forum for that service.
    If your problem is with Thunderbird, see this forum for support.
    [http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/support/]
    or this one
    [http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=39]

  • Applet doesn't show image only if it is running on IE

    HI All,
    I'm developing an applet that show a table whre any single cell is composed by a Jlabel that contains an image and a text.
    So the applet working fine if I run it via eclipse viewer but when I create the HTML file addind the right archive contains all classes and folder image and run applet via IE only the text label is shown.
    Seems strange that I don't use a specific path for gettinng image file because I put the image folder inside the classes folder and the reference to the image file is absolute to the folder "image/xxx.png".
    Could anybody help me or have some suggestion to solve this behaviour?
    Thanks in advance & best regards,
    Valerio

    You appear to have more than one profile already. Maybe these will turn out to belong to other users, or you have used Reset Firefox.
    When looking for Firefox and trying to kill it with task manager, also look for plugincontainer that could also be running.
    You have not said what your OS is. Possibly an upgrade is trying to complete and failing,no doubt it is possible to kill that but I am not sure how. (IIRC someone recently posted about how to do that in Windows 7 but I can not find that post, at present, and I do not know what your OS is)
    Deleting ''profile.ini'' will create a new profile ,but a better alternatives may be
    * use ResetFirefox option (I only recommend that to novices)
    * create a new profile, (keep both the old and the new one) troubleshoot by starting the new one see
    **http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Manager#Creating_a_new_profile (check it has no extensions or plugins enabled)

  • How come my iPad doesn't show LTE, only 4G

    I have an iPad mini and enabled LTE on my device. For some reason it only shows 4G. I know I can get LTE because I have it on my iPhone 5.

    Call your Cellular service provider and work with them... You've either exceeded your data limits, they are restricting your device's access to the slower 4G network or you don't have LTE turned on in your Settings - Cellular section.
    https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4548734?start=0&tstart=0

  • BootCamp boot option doesn't show Windows, only Mac.

    I have successfully installed Windows XP on my Mac with BootCamp, and I been having this issue where when I press the option key down on restart it brings up the screen where I can then select a operating system, problem is Windows is not shown at all, only Mac. I called support twice, the first time we tried some troubleshooting things to see if that would work, and it didn't. He suggested I re-install windows, so I did that, and that did not work either. So the second time I called they said they will make a case about it and consult the engineers or who ever, and they would get back to me. I was never contacted back about this issue. So I decided now to see if anyone here can help out.
    p.s. I can get into Windows, but its a hassle, I would go into system preferences and change the setting to boot into Windows as default, and if I wanted to go into Mac....well, I would restart and press the option key, and Mac would be listed, but no Windows.

    did you try "rEFIt"? it's a bootloader that can help you enormously.... also, try to burn a liveCD of GParted, it's a linux partitoning tool and you can inspect your partition info after booting with the liveCD - don't be afraid, it won't do anything to your hard drive. -- the xp partition flag should be set to off in order for it to be recognized by boot camp. but in any case, install rEFIt first!!! it works together will boot camp, it's a must-have for all macbook users. install that app to your OS X, not xp.

  • Iphoto doesn't show pictures - only a white screen is opening

    hello!
    i've got an new imac. on 21. april i moved my iphoto library from an old power pc with iphoto 8.1.2 to my new imac. the iphoto library works without problems.
    last week i put on my iphone and itunes and iphones opened automatically. Now i've seen, that iphoto shows no pictures. I took the iphone from the usb cable and started iphoto again. It shows no photos again, only a white screen.
    I read all discussion-themes and tried to delete the existing iphoto library and create a new one, I delete the preferences plists, I repair all options that will be appear, if i push alt+cmd,I replaced the iphoto library and the programm iphoto with my timemachine backup. but nothing happened.
    today i moved the iphoto librarys to an extern hard disc. I removed all things from iphoto and installed iphoto from the system cd.
    again an white screen is opening. if i click to add a new album, the left bar is visible. I click to import photos. the programm runs and can not complete the import. i have to quit the programm with taskmanager.
    i hope someone can help me!

    please excuse my english :-))
    I hope you understand what I mean

  • Is there a way to access all the items in the tools section without seeing all the options? That is to say can one use keyboard for functions? My tools menu doesn't scroll down, only goes from left to right for one page and no more options.

    I can't seem to view web pages. I noticed when I clicked on the tools menu I don't get the usual drop down menu of choices. I get a horizontal listing of options with a white background. I suspect the issue may be somewhere in some settings of my tool bar or the way the system displays web pages.

    Start Firefox in [[Safe Mode]] to check if one of your add-ons is causing your problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Tools > Add-ons > Themes).<br />
    See [[Troubleshooting extensions and themes]] and [[Troubleshooting plugins]]<br />
    <br />
    If it does work in Safe-mode then disable all your extensions and then try to find which is causing it by enabling one at a time until the problem reappears.<br />
    You can use "Disable all add-ons" on the [[Safe mode]] start window to disable all extensions.<br />
    You have to close and restart Firefox after each change via "File > Exit" (Mac: "Firefox > Quit"; Linux: "File > Quit")

  • I try to use the brush tool and paint white but the only color working is grey! I got a warning message about graphics hardware, but everything seems to be fine with the graphics. What is wrong?

    I get this message...but everything seems to be fine with the graphics hardware....help!?

    The message is referring to 3D features which are not supported by cards with less than 512 MB of vRam.
    Try Restore Preferences:
    Windows - CTRL-SHIFT-ALT immediately after you double-click the PS icon.
    Macintosh - CMD-SHIFT-OPTION immediately after you double-click the PS icon.
    Nancy O.

  • Has anyone found a fix to the code on Google Toolbar (NOT a Google search box) to make it work with Firebox 9.0.1? my tool bar doesn't show any icons and says its not compatible. I've tried to fixes to no avail.

    Firefox verson: 9.0.1
    Google Toolbar version:
    I've tried two fixes:
    1. Went to Firefox Profiles at AppData >Roaming > Mozilla> Firefox > Profiles > Default Profile > Extensions and look for the directory where the Google Toolbar is installed. Mine is located at {3112ca9c-de6d-4884-a869-9855de68056c} directory.
    Changed the maxversion to 10. Find this line <em:maxVersion>4.0.*</em:maxVersion> to <em:maxVersion>10.*</em:maxVersion>\
    2. Went to Lib dircotry and opened up the file toolbar.js with a text editior and replaced all www.google.com/accounts WITH: accounts.google.com

    You can turn off compatibility checking, but more and more of the Google Toolbar will not work. Google is no longer supporting the Google Toolbar so you should use the alternatives.
    Hi Mark,
    See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Using_Google_Toolbar_features_without_toolbars
    If you have an aspect that is not covered, indicate what that is; otherwise, expect you to be fully functional within 1-2 weeks.
    <br><small>Please mark "Solved" one answer that will best help others with a similar problem -- hope this was it.</small>

  • All of a sudden my track pad doesn't work properly and mouse pointer is jumping all over my screen

    Help, it feels like someone else is controlling my mouse.  This just started happening.  My trackpad doesn't work or works sporadically.  While typing the pointer is scrolling all over my screen.  This is really annoying.

    Great tip! Your suggestion to check for a swollen battery in my laptop is working for me. You should get credit for solving the problem.
    On my MacBook Pro (2008), my cursor was out-of-control for the past couple of days, like it was having a sissy-fit. In TextEdit, for example, I would enter text, but the text would no longer be entered smoothly, in sync with my typing. Nor would the text appear where I wanted it go. Sometimes, the text I was typing, say in the last line of the document, would jump and insert itself somewhere above in the document. Sometimes, entire lines of text, or entire paragraphs, would get highlighted and then immediately deleted upon my hitting the next keystroke. Not an acceptable way to work!
    I tested this odd behavior in Leopard and in Snow Leopard and in Lion, which are all partitioned on my laptop's hard drive. Since I could not isolate the problem to any one version of the Mac OS, I began to fear that my motherboard had gotten compromised and went defective on me.
    Your tip proved that it was merely a swollen battery that was the cause of my problems. I was able to confirm this by removing the original battery (now 4 years old) and placing it on a hard surface. It rocked like a see-saw, ever so slightly, about 1/8-inch to 1/4-inch at the far sides of the rocking motion. When I looked at that original, swollen battery from the side, I got further indication that your insight was likely correct, for I could spy the area where the swelling was occurring: it was at an edge in the middle of the battery, and it was separating from the base by about 1/16-inch, just enough to make me wonder why the "springiness" had suddenly disappeared from the central portion of my trackpad.
    That change in the touch and the lack of aural feedback (i.e. no "click" sound or feeling) when I depressed the trackpad in the central section, was my first clue that something was wrong. The crazy cursor behavior on-screen was further indication that something was amiss.
    I type this reply under A/C power, as the replacement battery, which I had purchased from Other World Computing back in September 2011 for just such an eventuality, is now charging. At first, I was worried that the replacement battery was a dud, for it was stuck on 0% for nearly 10-15 minutes before it began to take a charge. But, 30 minutes of paience has paid off: the replacement battery is now at 15% and getting more powerful by the minute.
    bowlerboy

  • No touch only mouse pointer from iPad connected ro Windows 2012 R2 Terminal server

    When I connect from my iPad to my Windows 2012 R2 server i get the mouse pointer and the touch screen is not working. At first it did, but after opening, i think it was firefox, it changed into a mouse pointer.
    How to switch it back?
    Using Microsoft remote desktop 8.0.x iPad II

    Hi,
    Tap the connection bar to display the utility bar at the top of the screen. The utility bar enables switching between mouse modes.
    Thanks.
    Jeremy Wu
    TechNet Community Support

  • No touch only mouse pointer from iPad connected to Windows 2012 R2 Terminal server

    When I connect from my iPad to my Windows 2012 R2 server i get the mouse pointer and the touch screen is not working. At first it did, but after opening, i think it was firefox, it changed into a mouse pointer.
    How to switch it back?
    Using Microsoft remote desktop 8.0.x iPad II

    Hi,
    Tap the connection bar to display the utility bar at the top of the screen. The utility bar enables switching between mouse modes.
    Thanks.
    Jeremy Wu
    TechNet Community Support

Maybe you are looking for