Setting 'Preferences' in CS3

Clive R. Haynes FRPS

The 'Cursors' dialogue box allows you to choose how the brushes and brush-related tools (such as Clone Stamp, Eraser, Pencil,etc.) appear on-screen.

It's debatable as to whether under 'Painting Cursors' that one chooses 'Normal', 'Full Size' or 'Crosshair' settings. It's really down to individual preferences. However, if for a particular project one setting is prefered rather than another, then simply revisit this dialogue box and make the change. You can always reset it later.

I usually get along fine with 'Normal' but I'll swap to another setting as the occasion demands - it's no problem. Personally, I find the 'Crosshair' setting for general purpose use a little distracting but it's great when you need to pinpoint the exact centre of a brush for precision - it's 'horses for courses'.

In the 'Other Cursors' section, it's far preferable to set this to 'Precise' otherwise all you see for these tools is the rather simplistic and not very helpfull icon, according to the tool.