Can you help me find my mouse in Photoshop?

October 2, 2006 11:51 AM

OS X Photoshop weirdness - The cursor disappears when the mouse is inside the bounds of the currently open image.

Moving off the image causes the cursor to reappear, and photoshop is still tracking the mouse as evidenced by the lines in the rulers at the top and left. This seems to be tool-independent, but not consistent. Any suggestions? This is CS2/OS X 10.4.8 on a G5, and has been unaffected by updates and reinstalls.

posted by casconed to Computers & Internet (5 answers total)

Does this happen with all images? Does it happen with an all white image as well as an all black one? I often lose the cursor in an image, but figured that has more to do with a) the smallness of the cursor, and b) the lack of contrast between the cursor and the image.
posted by Thorzdad at 11:59 AM on October 2, 2006

If I recall correctly, older versions of Photoshop had plugins you could turn on or off by moving them from folder to folder that handled things like offloading some processing to a graphics card. Is it possible you have something like that turned on? Maybe something that says "Use AltiVec" or some other G4 technology that wouldn't work with a G5?
posted by bcwinters at 12:02 PM on October 2, 2006

Go into edit->preferences->display and cursors, and try changing the options there, specifically "color channels in color" and "use pixel doubling".
posted by fake at 12:06 PM on October 2, 2006

Have you tried CAPSLOCK to toggle between the different cursor types? I often lose the accurate cursor.
posted by popcassady at 12:11 PM on October 2, 2006

On my Windows XP version of CS2, changing the "Painting Cursors" and "Other Cursors" to anything but "Standard" makes it difficult for me to see the cursor sometimes.
posted by jroybal at 12:41 PM on October 2, 2006