Brush Tool Issues!

Hello I am currently experiencing issues with my Photoshop cs6 extended edition. When ever I paint with the paint tool it does not appear on the document. It only appears in the miniature display by the layers.

Have you sorted this out yet? My guess is that you were painting in a layer mask, but we don't know if you even had layer masks, so just a guess. If still stuck, post a screen grab of your entire Photoshop workspace and image, with the layers panel showing. Please don't downsize before posting.

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CS5 Flash Brush Tool and Stage Issue

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I have two issues while using CS5 Flash right now and it's driving me crazy.
For the first issue. (Number 1)
How do I make it so that the dots do not appear after I draw something with the brush? Whenever I draw something with the brush and select it with the mouse, it goes into a, "Dot" image that is shown in the image. This should not happen. I remember there was a setting that made it so that all objects drawn by the brush are completely solid when you select it with the mouse tool. Which setting is this?
For the second issue, (Number 2)
How do I expand the overall working stage that I use within my image? Whenever I click and drag and object to the right, it gives me a bit more room to see the overall object when I zoom out. But than it stops. How do I make the overall stage larger so I can see all of my objects that I have?
Please, someone help me out here.
Thank-You.

select the brush tool. in the properties panel is a smoothing parameter that you can adjust from 0 to 100. try 0 and see if that's what you want.

Why is the brush tool in Illustrator CC inferior to the brush tool in CS6? It has less control of fidelity and smoothness. It is terrible - and I'm an illustrator. Can I use the CS6 brush engin in CC?

I loved the brush tool in CS6 Illustrator- by turning fidelity to the lowest setting, and smoothness down to zero, pumping up pressure sensitivity, it accurately reproduced the fine shapes of a drawn stroke. I'm an illustrator, so I don't want artificially smoothed curves, I want the line I drew.
This works really well with my Wacom Cintiq tablet... but now CC has removed this level of customisation for the brush tool. WHY? The program is called Illustrator, and as an illustrator, I can tell you having an accurate and finely adjustable brush engine to illustrate with is very important to me and to lots of other people who can draw, and draw for a living.
Now you get this dumbed down control panel when you double click on the brush tool icon- just one slider, with only 4 steps from 'accurate' (not very) to 'smooth' (almost indistiguishable from 'accurate')... it is like I have contracted a nerve disease - I draw a line, and it forms into something quite different to the path my pen took. WHY? Can I get rid of this rubbish engine? Trying the blob brush - what is the point of this brush? It is just like the old brush, except for a cursor that shows the largest size for pressure sensitivity... and it has the same crude 4 step smooth/accurate adjuster, that doesn't change the line much at all. I have the latest driver in my Cintiq, so I don't think that is the issue, and CS6 works better than CC.
I am very disappointed, Adobe. Do I have to go back to CS6 for all my Illustration work? Please improve the CC brush tool controls.
I am still reeling from Adobe's quiet removal of a whole tool: Inverse Kinematics/Bone tool from Flash CC JUST when I was finally using it to animate, but that's another story.
Honestly, having use them for a while, Photoshop,
Illlustrator, InDesign and Flash CC are, as far as I can tell, no step up at all from CS6, except that you have to pay for them forever.

More on this, now becoming known as the CC pencil tool fiasco, on these fora:
Re: PLEASE PLEASE adobe. The new pencil tool has become unusuble to me
Re: Changing line fidelity with CS6 Brush Tool
Re: All pressure sensitive brush presets gone!
If you are affected by the lower accuracy controls for CC's brush or pencil tools, use this Bug report/Feature request form to let the folks at Adobe know- they are actually hopefully going to fix this.......
thanks to Daniel for setting this up:
hey all, if you are going to file a bug report (as per Neeraj's suggestion), i've made up a draft to make the process easier. feel free to adjust it as much as you want, obviously; trying to equip us busy folk.
Obviously customer service & product development are two different departments, so if you're bummin out on the new functionality, submit a bug report!
link to submit bug report:
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
******BUG******
Concise problem statement:
I was told to by Neeraj N(staff) to report this issue based on this link : (http://forums.adobe.com/message/6065706).
The Pencil / Brush tools have lost essential functionality with the addition of the new accurate / smooth adjustment preset. Users are no longer able to specify high-accuracy pen mapping, as the finest accuracy setting is now set to 2.5px (legacy versions allowed accuracy to .5px).
I would think adding additional slider nodes to allow more accurate mapping (while still using the accurate / smooth preset) allow for a minimal change in programming with a maximum return for power users.
Steps to reproduce bug:
1. open illustrator
2. use either pencil or brush tool.
3. draw erratic and high detail shapes
Results: shapes are smoothed to 2.5px smoothness, even when the accurate / smooth adjustment preset is set to full accuracy.
Expected results: shapes have minimal / no smoothing to maintain the integrity of the artwork.
Thank you for your consideration.

Adobe Flash CS6 Brush Tool Not Smooth

On my Flash CS6, my brush tool has been difficult lately. When I use my Wacom pen tablet and even my mouse, the strokes I draw "correct" too much and it causes an uneven flow. I have the pressure option on, and I draw with the pressure I want it still causes an the uneven flow, especially when I draw curves.
Even when I turn the pressure option off, it still does the same thing: too much "correction", even when the smoothing isn't even that high.
This person's Youtube videos have the same settings as my brush tool; smoothing 50, pressure on. And when he draws his lines are smooth and correct the amount I would like to see.
My flash is doing this:
The smoothing is labeled at the top of each stroke, and even when I keep the pressure I want, it causes an uneven flow at the smoothing of 50.
I have tried resetting to all defaults, I am updated to the latest version, and I know my tablet is not the issue because my mouse does the same kind of strokes. I try using different smoothing levels, and each level has this really uneven pen flow.
Does anyone know why my lines are so out of control?
Please help!!! Thank you!!

On my Flash CS6, my brush tool has been difficult lately. When I use my Wacom pen tablet and even my mouse, the strokes I draw "correct" too much and it causes an uneven flow. I have the pressure option on, and I draw with the pressure I want it still causes an the uneven flow, especially when I draw curves.
Even when I turn the pressure option off, it still does the same thing: too much "correction", even when the smoothing isn't even that high.
This person's Youtube videos have the same settings as my brush tool; smoothing 50, pressure on. And when he draws his lines are smooth and correct the amount I would like to see.
My flash is doing this:
The smoothing is labeled at the top of each stroke, and even when I keep the pressure I want, it causes an uneven flow at the smoothing of 50.
I have tried resetting to all defaults, I am updated to the latest version, and I know my tablet is not the issue because my mouse does the same kind of strokes. I try using different smoothing levels, and each level has this really uneven pen flow.
Does anyone know why my lines are so out of control?
Please help!!! Thank you!!

Why can't I use the Basic brush tool?

I'm learning the ropes of drawing in Illustrator and I've fallen at the first hurdle. Why can't I use the Basic brush tool? Whenever I select the brush tool and use the 'Basic' brush type, the cursor turns into a hashed circle indicating I can't draw. If I load other brushes, I can draw with other brush types, but I can't use the Basic one. If I select the Basic brush when I have other brushes loaded and try to draw with it, it always defaults to a different brush! I don't understand why.
On a related matter, I'm also having trouble changing brush size. I know that using the [ and ] keys changes brush size, but I have no idea what the values are. If I try this in Photoshop, I can see the brush size in the Options bar, but in Illustrator it doesn't appear anywhere! Not in the Brushes palette, the Stroke palette or the Appearance palette. Where can I see the brush size?

Glitcher,
The following is a general list of things you may try when the issue is not in a specific file (you may have tried/done some of them already); 1) and 2) are the easy ones for temporary strangenesses, and 3) and 4) are specifically aimed at possibly corrupt preferences); 5) is a list in itself, and 6) is the last resort.
1) Close down Illy and open again;
2) Restart the computer (you may do that up to 3 times);
3) Close down Illy and press Ctrl+Alt+Shift/Cmd+Option+Shift during startup (easy but irreversible);
4) Move the folder (follow the link with that name) with Illy closed (more tedious but also more thorough and reversible);
5) Look through and try out the relevant among the Other options (follow the link with that name, Item 7) is a list of usual suspects among other applications that may disturb and confuse Illy, Item 15) applies to CC, CS6, and maybe CS5);
Even more seriously, you may:
6) Uninstall, run the Cleaner Tool (if you have CS3/CS4/CS5/CS6/CC), and reinstall.
http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/cscleanertool.html

Files not saving with Deco tool or Spray Brush tool selected

I found that .fla files do not save in Flash CS4 when the Deco tool or Spray Brush tool is selected. Is this a bug? Or is there a workaround to this issue.
Please clarify.

Hmm - thanks for letting us know.
It does seem to be the case that the "*" next to the file name does not go away when these particular tools are selected. It does seem to actually save the changes though to the document, so you should be safe after the ctrl+s.

Roto Brush Performance Issues & Seeking Advice.

Hello everyone,
First time posting in the forum, so I'll make this as painless as I can and hopefully I can get a hand in figuring this out.
Computer is a brand new Mac Book Pro 15in Retina Display.
- 2.7ghz Intel Core i7 (quad core)
- 16gb Ram
- SSD HD
- NVidia GeForce GT 650m 1024 mb.
- OSX 10.8.3
- After Effects 11.0.2.11
The project that I'm working on right now was shot 1080, 24fps. I cut the project in Premier and copied all of the footage to AE for keying and to ad motion graphics. The project is close to 5 minutes in length, when I noticed the project effecting the performance of my computer I created 4 smaller projects.
I'm using the rotobrush to add back in the underside of the brim, a task which, initially, I didn't expect to be such a problem.
No issues at all with keying, so I duplicated the footage, and began roto brushing the brim at full resolution. For the most part, I've been advancing by 10 frames, which I understand will take longer to propagate, however any selection after the render is completely is leaving After Effects almost completely unresponsive for a minute or two.
Not sure what exactly is going on. I just finished a project last week and used the roto brush quite a bit and had absolutely no problems!
I read every article and post I found on the roto brush tool, as well as a handful of AE Optimization articles and videos.
Not sure what else you might need to know from me, but any input or advice would be great.
Also, if there is a better way to handle adding the underside of the brim back in please let me know. I've tried a few different options, and roto brushing seemed to be the best and quickest option until this!
Thanks a lot!
-Joe

It's hard to say what is causing the rotobrush show down but there may be an easy work around. Try something like this:
I applied keylight to the footage, selected combined matte to give rotobrush a nice easy area to work in, then pre-composed the keyed footage and used RotoBrush on the layer to select the underside of the hat. I added a white solid behind the rotoed pre-comp and pre composed that to use as a track matte for the original footage. Keylight was also applied to the original footage but was only used to supress color. Here's the AEP. Maybe it will give you some ideas.

When i pick my brush tool and try to get a soft brush from the drop down menu they all look white, i

When i pick my brush tool and try to get a soft brush from the drop down menu they all look white, i don't see a soft brush from a non soft brush.How can i fix this issue in photoshop? Thanks

Hi tvilela,
Do you, by chance, have the Pencil Tool selected in place of the Brush Tool.
-Noel

Can anyone explain why my surface pro 3 will not accurately use the brush tool in adobe illustrator?

My surface Pro 3 is amazing with photoshop but it cuts in and out using the brush tool in illustrator. Does anyone know of a fix?

Hi Dinar Fresco,
We have seen some issue with n-trig win tab drivers on surface pro 3. Here is a forum post with some solution https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1649008?q=surface%20pro
Sanjay.

What could cause no propagation using Roto Brush Tool?

Also is it allowed to use masking while using the Roto Brush tool?
Could the arrow colors be exacly the same as the gray of the background?
I have gotten it to work on some other projects.

Unlikely that you could tweak your UI brightness in such a way that it kills both grey tones at the same time, so this is a real issue of sorts. do you see any propagation status updated on teh info plaette? Please check that. If there is propagation, yet it does not show up in the viewer, it may be an issue with your footage. And no, you shouldn't use masks and RB at the same time. It may throw off RB completely. You would have to pre-compose or pre-render the RB layer and work based on that.
Mylenium

Clone or Healing Brush Tool Creates Ghost Layer or Image - Unusable

I am using the latest version of Photoshop CS5.5 on a fully updated MacBook Pro.
I am having issues with the following tools:
Clone Stamp Tool,
Healing Brush Tool,
More details:
Essentially it "appears" that Photoshop is duplicating the layer and the layers appears to be dragged whenever the cursor is moved. I do not need to be holding down the mouse button for the layer to follow the cursor.
If I click outside of these tools then photoshop functions as normal, and this extra layer-effect disappears. Clicking back to those tools however causes it to reoccur.
From testing, when first selecting these tools (on program startup) nothing occurs. It's only when I select the target area (option+click) to use the tools does this problem begin.
I have checked, and no layer is duplicated. It is also a single image (so not a copy on top of the original).
I have been using Photoshop for a few years now and familiar with it's interface and functioning. Initially it was working fine on this laptop, however in the last few months this problem has begun and persisted. On other computers it is functioning fine. A complete uninstall and reinstall of Adobe on the laptop has made no change either.
Please can someone help? Thanks in advance for any assistance or guidance you can provide.

I am not saying that this will absolutely sort your problem but it is a good place to start.
Try resetting your Photoshop Preferences. Check out this post for instructions.
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/375776
Good luck

Paint bucket tool after drawing with brush tool

Hi,
I am just wondering if there is anyway to paint using the paint bucket tool properly after drawing something using the brush tool. Although I have no gaps anywhere within the outline , there are times where the paint bucket tool doesn't paint. Another issue I encounter is whenever I try to adjust the shape with the selection tool it either fills a portion of the shape with color and even sometimes makes the shape itself disappear. Is there a way to only select a small portion of the drawing (like the way it is with pencil tool) as the shapes were done using a couple of strokes instead of just one.

Hi,
You can use use paint bucket tool to change the color of lines drawn with brush.And to be sure that there are no gaps select the line with subselection tool because visually you cannot make out as the gaps are defined in pixels.Also you can select parts of fill region with selection tool if the painting with brush is done in shape mode not object drawing mode.Hope this helps.
Thanks,
Sangeeta

Adobe Flash Professional CC 2014 [Brush Tool Problem]

Hello I have been trying to fix a problem with the brush tool I found out about recently. [ I have a graphic tablet/drawing tablet ] Every time I have the brush tool selected, and try to write something a line is drawn on the canvas. It's really hard for me to explain the problem so here is a screenshot.
I don't know how to fix this problem, and I already tried to re-install the software, but it doesn't seen to make any difference. Any suggestions?

Hi All,
Thanks for your patience. Patch for FlashPro CC 2014 (Build No. 14.2.0.20) was released yesterday, requesting you to please update, try and let us know if you still face any issues.
You can update your Flash CC 2014 build by just going to Help>Updates or through Creative Cloud App.
You can learn more about the update at Flash Professional Help | New features summary
Rgds,
Mukesh

Flash CC Brush Tool abruptly stops drawing when stage size is small

When using the Brush Tool, I'm having an issue that the stroke I'm drawing will abrupty cut off at a certain point on the screen (roughly halfway down the monitor, it doesn't relate to the canvas position or any coordinates). This seems to happen when I have the Stage size set to a smaller size (64 x 64 pixels for example). I've been able to reproduce the same behavior on multiple files, and on both a Windows 8.1 machine and a Windows 7 machine, both using the up-to-date version of Flash CC. Both machines are dual monitor, I'm not sure if that plays a factor in this.
To reproduce:
1. Create a new FLA in Flash CC and set the stage size to 64 x 64 pixels.
2. Use the Brush Tool and attempt to draw from the top to the bottom of the screen (zoom level and position on the canvas does not matter, as long as your cursor is going from near the top of your monitor to the bottom of your monitor).
3. The stroke will abruptly cut off mid-drawing at a certain point on the screen, roughly half-way down. You can continue to draw and move upwards and it will reappear when it crosses this barrier again.
This does not happen if the stage size is set to something larger (640 x 480 for example). This also does happen in Flash CS5 or CS6, and have only noticed this happening in Flash CC.
This is happening using the mouse for drawing, and also happened when I tested it on a different PC with a Wacom tablet attached.
Is this happening for others as well, and is there any fix for this behavior? (aside from always using a large stage size)

Hi All,
Just want to update you all that the latest Flash CC 2014 release(14.0.0.110) has the fix for this drawing issue.
This release also features
* New and improved Motion Editor
* SVG export
* WebGL for animation
* Variable Width Tool
* Tweening for variable-width strokes
* Object-level Undo
* Export as Projector
* HTML5 extension support
and much more...
To know more about what's new and exciting in Flash CC 2014, please visit
Flash CC 2014 Overview : Animation software | Download free Flash Professional CC trial
Flash CC 2014 Blog Post : http://blogs.adobe.com/flashpro/2014/06/18/flashprofessionalcc2014/
Thanks!
Mohan

BRUSH TOOL NOT SMOOTH

I have an issue with my Cintiq not drawing smoothly in Flash. I need to sketch incredibly fast and loose. Flash used to work just fine but now it suddenly began drawing really crummy. I posted some examples of flash as well as Photoshop, Sketchbook Pro, and ToonBoom Animate Pro which is another vector graphics tool. I thought the vector graphics may be the issue but that app seems to handle the drawing excellently (now if only it did the other things Flash can do). Here's some examples of how they're looking. It may be hard to tell in these already loose sketches but the performance drop is really a big difference in responsiveness between Flash vs the other apps here:
IMAGE EXAMPLE
http://i1126.photobucket.com/albums/l613/jedoralive/LINEUP.jpg
SYSTEM SPECS
ATI Radeon HD 4870
2x3 Ghz Dual Core Intel Xeon
8GB RAM
4TB HD
Does anyone know why my cintiq is causing flash to draw so poorly? Occasionally photoshop will also do the same 'crumbly edges' thing? Any idea how to fix it?

Well, the only problem with that is I will lose the interface of Flash which is why I don't use the others to begin with. In AFX you would have to constantly pop back and forth between photoshop and AFX to draw. TOTALLY counter-intuitive. Why go back and forth between Photoshop and AFX, when you can do both, fast and immediately in Flash? Oh - because Flash doesn't actually draw WELL - it just draws. Or if you draw slow enough, and then run some filters you might get the drawing to look better or at least in the ballpark. Why would I settle for Fish-sticks when I ordered Fish Taco's?
What flash does so great is to allow you to:
- Draw directly into the app realtime.
- Play and step through timelines and symbols realtime.
- Work directly in and out of many symbols/compositions at once allowing you to scale things in time and edit all realtime on the fly (VS lugging things back and forth between apps AND also often waiting for rendering.)
- No limit to the number of nested symbols and timelines.
I think from a purely technical standpoint it makes sense, but from a practical, user point of view who's been using it heavily and extensively since the Macromedia days, there's severe flaws with Flash still. The Technology already exists in other similar applications so I'm hoping either COMPETITORS, or ADOBE FLASH fill in the blanks where the other side fails to so there's finally an app that does everything in one package. Right now it's a very Pro's vs Con's situation where Flash keeps winning out by a small margin.
This isn't a small detail - it's half the reason I use a program. I don't care how great a car is. If the steering wheel is made of Tofu, or the seats are made from old fish, I'm not buying it. I'm sure sitting and using it for a few hours wouldn't make anyone notice the difference much, but when you're talking about hundreds of hours and thousands upon thousands of sketches per month, it really adds up. The things flash does RIGHT, really help take a load off of that burden which is why I end up using it - but then the things it's NOT doing well - If fixed - would really serve to make it an even faster, better, more useful tool. It's extra frustrating to know there are other apps out there doing it, and that Adobe hasn't touched the brush tool since they bought the rights from Macromedia. It's just sat there for the most part. Maybe Ten years ago it was a breakthrough, but so was texting. Currently it's a hobbyist level tool at best.
If the argument is "That's not really why people use Flash though".
A) Why have it at all then?
B) No, and they never will if you don't fix it. There's a whole market of people you're turning off with this one shoddy tool.
Fussy? High Standards? Absolutely. I'm using it for more than art to put on Mom's fridge, and if the box says professional, that's what I expect. I've been patient for 10 years, defending Flash's other points to my workplace hoping they'll eventually fix it. Time's up.

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