Adobe Photoshop CS3 - Manual (Page 38)

PHOTOSHOP CS3
User Guide
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Precise Displays pointers as cross hairs.
Brush Size (painting cursors only) Displays the painting tool cursors as brush shapes representing the size of the
current brush. Brush Size cursors may not appear for very large brushes.
3 Select Brush Cursor options if you selected Brush Size as the tool pointer setting:
Normal The pointer outline corresponds to approximately 50% of the area that the tool will affect. This option shows
the pixels that would be most visibly affected.
Full Size The pointer outline corresponds to nearly 100% of the area that the tool will affect, or nearly all the pixels
that would be affected.
Always Show Crosshair Displays cross hairs in the center of the brush shape.
4 Click OK.
The Painting Cursors options control the pointers for the following tools:
Eraser, Pencil, Paintbrush, Healing Brush, Rubber Stamp, Pattern Stamp, Quick Selection, Smudge, Blur, Sharpen,
Dodge, Burn, and Sponge tools
The Other Cursors options control the pointers for the following tools:
Marquee, Lasso, Polygonal Lasso, Magic Wand, Crop, Slice, Patch, Eyedropper, Pen, Gradient, Line, Paint Bucket,
Magnetic Lasso, Magnetic Pen, Freeform Pen, Measure, and Color Sampler tools
To toggle between standard and precise cursors in some tool pointers, press Caps Lock.
Using the options bar
The options bar appears below the menu bar at the top of the workspace. The options bar is context sensitive—it
changes as you select different tools. Some settings in the options bar (such as painting modes and opacity) are
common to several tools, and some are specific to one tool.
You can move the options bar in the workspace by using the gripper bar, and you can dock it at the top or bottom of
the screen. Tool tips appear when you position the pointer over a tool. To show or hide the options bar, choose
Window > Options.
Lasso options bar
A. Gripper bar B. Tool tip
To return tools to their default settings, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) the tool icon in the options
bar, and then choose Reset Tool or Reset All Tools from the context menu.
For more information on setting options for a specific tool, search for the tool’s name in Photoshop Help.
Create and use tool presets
Tool presets let you save and reuse tool settings. You can load, edit, and create libraries of tool presets using the Tool
Preset picker in the options bar, the Tool Presets palette, and the Preset Manager.
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