How to enlarge Pen Tool?

When using the pen tool to make a path I can't always tell
when the little circle or caret or minus sign is activated so I can
close the path, expecially when it's over a color that is similar.
I work from 1280 resolution and that may be part of it. How do I
enlarge the pen tool?

Peter,
Actually I think that Lorva is talking about the pen cursor
showing the
circle when you hover over the closing point. If the monitor
is set to a
high resolution it is hard to see this specially if the image
is
complex. Lorva would like to have the ability to increase the
size of
the pen cursor. So the answer is no, it can't be done.
alex
PJR wrote:
> The easiest way is to just zoom the whole image.
>
> View > Zoom In
> Or use the % in the bottom rh corner.
> Or Ctrl + and Ctrl -
>
> Peter
> ______________________-
> "Lorva" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
> news:e29eik$12u$[email protected]..
> | When using the pen tool to make a path I can't always
tell when the little
> | circle or caret or minus sign is activated so I can
close the path,
> expecially
> | when it's over a color that is similar. I work from
1280 resolution and
> that
> | may be part of it. How do I enlarge the pen tool?
> |
>
>

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