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Can you change the colour of the cursor in photoshop ?

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Old 25-08-2006, 7:47 PM   #1
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Can you change the colour of the cursor in photoshop ?

I often use the rectangular marquee tool for selecting areas for cropping etc and quite often find it very difficult to see the cross-hair cursor on the photo, especially when the background colour is nearly the same as the cursor colour. Is there any way to change the appearance of this cursor ?
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Old 25-08-2006, 8:19 PM   #2
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Re: Can you change the colour of the cursor in photoshop ?

Pretty sure that isn't configurable. My marquee crosshair shows white over a dark background and changes to black over a light background. No problems seeing it.

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Old 25-08-2006, 8:31 PM   #3
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Re: Can you change the colour of the cursor in photoshop ?

You can turn the crosshair into a solid cross with the Caps Lock key. As long as you have cursor optiosn set to 'Standard' in Edit/Preferences/Cursors.

This will also alow you to change the cursor to show the tool type/brush size

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Old 26-08-2006, 7:04 AM   #4
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Re: Can you change the colour of the cursor in photoshop ?

Mine is just a grey colour all of the time
Edit - just tried it again and it's on large areas of water or large areas if green where I get the problem. The larger the original photo the smaller the crosshairs seem to be.

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Old 26-08-2006, 7:22 AM   #5
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Re: Can you change the colour of the cursor in photoshop ?

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I often use the rectangular marquee tool for selecting areas for cropping etc and quite often find it very difficult to see the cross-hair cursor on the photo, especially when the background colour is nearly the same as the cursor colour. Is there any way to change the appearance of this cursor ?
Have you tried changing it in the Windows Control Panel?

Start> Programs>Control Panel>Mouse

Then click on the Pointers tab and change the scheme. I've just tried it on mine and it works.
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Old 26-08-2006, 8:51 AM   #6
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Re: Can you change the colour of the cursor in photoshop ?

Cheers I'll have a play around with some schemes
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