Holy fuck Imma cut a bitch!

[tripperfunster]

Okay, nobody panic, problem solved. Thanks so much Clay and everyone else who chimed in!

I'm sure I"ll be bugging you all again before long. :D



*flaily keyboard smash*

How the FUCK do I fix my brushes in photoshop? *sob* I was mucking around, trying different things, and now my brushes don't work like they're supposed to! :(

Normally, when I have the brush opacity down, I can press hard and make a full diameter line, or I can press lightly, and draw a dark-ish line in the middle of the light stuff. I've tried to fix it via Pen Sensitivity in the brushes window, but it just lets me go darker/lighter with pressure, but doesn't let me change the diameter of the stroke with pressure. I've also tried mucking with diameter, but to no avail.

I swear to God this is fucking aging me. AND I DON'T NEED ANY MORE WRINKLES TYVM!

Oh, and please dumb down your answers as much as possible.

Comments

[turynn.livejournal.com]

Woah... changing diameter? I didn't even know you could do that! Sorry I can't help you, but I hope someone knows how! I'd like to know about this too..

[droxy.livejournal.com]

reset brushes to default and reload.

keep in mind you may be working faster than PS can handle.

[clayangel.livejournal.com]

The problem is that the pressure you're exerting on the pen isn't changing the width of the line you're drawing? Did this start happening randomly in the middle of a session or did you open up Photoshop and it was suddenly happening?

I would start by restarting Photoshop. Make sure your tablet is already plugged in and getting power and all that when you start Photoshop, too. If that doesn't work, then I would try restoring default settings, and if THAT doesn't work, then I would start to wonder if it wasn't the tablet drivers that are the problem.

[scarletscarlet.livejournal.com]

Actually, yeah, what clayangel said.

Mine is attached to a fairly ancient computer and, on occasion, has a bit of a crash and stops registering pressure (so all my brushes look big and blunt like I'm using a mouse, not nice and pointy like with the pen). I restart the computer and it's fine again - on mine I think it's caused by a driver crashing.

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

I tried that. Infact, that's when it all went to hell. I followed Clay's advice about shutting it all off and re-starting, and now it's working again.

thanks though! Geez, I wish I'd thought of that before perusing through PS HELP and mucking around for an hour. *sigh*

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

Yes, your description of the problem was correct, and yes, your solution was correct too! YAY! I actually shut the whole laptop down (which I probably don't do enough). It did happen suddenly, but not mid-stroke. I was playing around with different brushes and stuff and then it wouldn't work anymore.

I wish I'd thought of that obvious answer before wasting an hour combing though the 'help' questions and mucking around in all the pre-sets. I DID try the restoring default thing, but I guess it just needed a short nap. ;)

THANKS HON!

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

yeah, the whole program was starting to lag, acutally, so it really should have occured to me to shut down. But I had been mucking around, playing with all sorts of settings, so I assumed it was something stupid that I'd done.

Thanks!

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

It's generally pre-set, but somehow changed on me. I just did the old school reboot thing and it fixed.

[lucianwolf.livejournal.com]

That title may have been the funniest thing ever.