Adobe PHOTOSHOP 5.0 User Manual page 35

Each default pointer has a different hot spot,
where an effect or action begins. You can switch
to precise pointers, which appear for most tools
as cross hairs centered around the hot spot. For
the magnetic lasso and magnetic pen tools, precise
pointers appear as circles representing the lasso
or pen width. With the painting tools, you can
also display the pointer as a brush shape of a
certain size.
To set the tool pointer appearance:
Choose File > Preferences > Display & Cursors.
1
Select the tool pointer appearance:
2
Click Standard under Painting Cursors, Other
•
Cursors, or both to display pointers as tool icons.
Click Precise under Painting Cursors, Other
•
Cursors, or both to display pointers for most tools
as crosshairs.
Click Brush Size under Painting Cursors to
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display the painting tool pointers as brush shapes
representing the size of the current brush. Brush
Size pointers may not display for very large
brushes.
Click OK.
3
With very small brushes, the brush shape is
surrounded by four dots for finer accuracy.
A B
A. Standard B. Precise C. Brush Size
The Painting Cursors options control the pointers
for the eraser, pencil, airbrush, paintbrush, rubber
stamp, pattern stamp, smudge, blur, sharpen,
dodge, burn, and sponge tools.
The Other Cursors options control the pointers
for the marquee, lasso, polygon lasso, magic wand,
crop, eyedropper, pen, gradient, line, paint bucket,
magnetic lasso, magnetic pen, measure, and color
sampler tools.
To change the appearance of some tool
pointers, press Caps Lock. Press Caps Lock
again to return to your original setting. The
pointers change in these ways:
Standard to precise
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Precise to brush size
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Brush size to precise
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