Photoshop is useable the paintbrush paints much smaller then the circle?

Question

The is ridiculous I have had photoshop for 6 months and I can't do anything.  Nothing works.  The main problem is the area effected by the brush is smaller then the brush.  I HEAR million excuses but nothing works. No one offers a fix only a work around because nothing works.  Anything I have ever done I have had to use Pixlr or Paintbrush.  They work but photoshop doesn't.  They refuse to ge4t me my money back but I got nothing but problems. When you pay for something is should mean less problems not more.

Answer 1

I'm sorry you are finding Photoshop so difficult to learn.  It is a complex and extremely powerful program with a steep learning curve, but I'd have expected you to at least have the basics off pat after six months.  Has no one really never told you that you have brush cursor options before now?  Experienced Photoshop users tend to use the full sized cursor by default, because they can see where the limit of a feathered brush will be, and indeed, a fully hard brush will match the cursor size precisely — as you'd expect.
Stick with it, and maybe put some work into learning it.  There is a huge range of excellent learning aids and tutorials on Adobe TV — Photoshop CC and any number of really good blog sites like Kelby TV.  I learned Photoshop 20 odd years ago with help from what is possibly the oldest Photoshop website there is: Janee's Photoshop Tutorials, Photoshop Classes  Even Adobe staff like Chris Cox remember Janee from Usenet (what we had before the web) and those tutorials are every bit as relevant today, because they teach basic skills.
Good luck, and I hope that 'flame' does not go out