Brush indicator not showing actual brush size

[lippemartinsm]

Why is my brush indicator not showing the same size as when it previews with ctrl+alt+drag left mouse button? Is it a setting, is it a bug or what? That's annoying af

[walt.farrell]

A screen recording to show what you're seeing might be useful.

For a guess: the size of the circle is influenced (I think) by the Hardness setting, and also possibly by Pressure settings. Perhaps they explain what you're seeing.

[keiichi77]

On 10/3/2023 at 5:14 PM, lippemartinsm said:

Why is my brush indicator not showing the same size as when it previews with ctrl+alt+drag left mouse button? Is it a setting, is it a bug or what? That's annoying af

Agreed.
It shows an average brush size what really has no use at all. Even if it is controlled by pressure, why it shows a useless inbetween size? And if I switch to mouse it shows the same inbetween size. Why? It is plain stupid.

[StefanK]

On 1/28/2025 at 3:11 AM, keiichi77 said:

It is plain stupid.

I have already mentioned that several times. But it doesn't seem to disturb anyone else. 

But the brush could be set and controled much more precisely if you can see your edges or limits.
This is even more uncomfortable with the copy brush. Here the source brush is only a tiny cross.

[GarryP]

17 hours ago, StefanK said:

I have already mentioned that several times. But it doesn't seem to disturb anyone else.

Walt, above, requested a screen recording so that we can see what’s happening, but none was given.

If we can’t see what’s happening then we can’t know the context in which the issue is happening, so we don’t have the details we need to advise or diagnose properly.

If you can supply a full-screen screen recording then someone can look into it further.

[StefanK]

7 hours ago, GarryP said:

Walt, above, requested a screen recording so that we can see what’s happening

It does not need screen recording. Everyone can see for themselves that the effectiveness zone of the brush goes well beyond the limit of their line marking.

[NotMyFault]

2 hours ago, StefanK said:

It does not need screen recording. Everyone can see for themselves that the effectiveness zone of the brush goes well beyond the limit of their line marking.

Mostly for soft brushes. There the 50% opacity line is shown.

[walt.farrell]

18 hours ago, StefanK said:

It does not need screen recording. Everyone can see for themselves that the effectiveness zone of the brush goes well beyond the limit of their line marking.

It needs a recording to provide the best answer to why it is happening in any specific situation, since it could be due to brush hardness, or to brush pressure settings. Or possibly other things.

For your comment about the Clone Brush Tool, the cross-hair lets you set the precise center point of the cloning operation. The brush Preview will show what you're going to clone as you prepare to actually paint. 

[StefanK]

20 hours ago, NotMyFault said:

Mostly for soft brushes. There the 50% opacity line is shown.

No. For me this is with every brush. And also at 100 % hardness

4 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

about the Clone Brush Tool, ...

Yes, I know that. But I would like to see its precise border while moving the source brush. I can work much more precisely with it. That is not too much requested.

And also. The target brush also has a border line for its limits! And pretty much precise in the effectiveness limits. See the above to the limits of the brushes. 🙃 

[keiichi77]

On 2/8/2025 at 10:54 AM, GarryP said:

Walt, above, requested a screen recording so that we can see what’s happening, but none was given.

If we can’t see what’s happening then we can’t know the context in which the issue is happening, so we don’t have the details we need to advise or diagnose properly.

If you can supply a full-screen screen recording then someone can look into it further.

Because lots of simple screenrecorders doesn't capture the brush size indicator.

The same case when I try to get the rotation info from the cursor. when the brush opacity is low, the brush preview is also transparent, so I cannot see anything from the brush. I cannot see neither the size nor the rotation value in the cursor, because the transparency info (what I really don't need) cancels out every other feedback what would be important! It doesn't show a middle value as in the case of brush size (what is in reality not an average value), so it is not a consistent ux decision!
And when the size info could be useful, there is an unusable small circle giving no information at all about the size.

I drew a copy of the brush cursor in the design persona, because I couldn't capture in screenshot, but I matched with the brush size cursor in pixel persona.
I also drew a pressurized stroke. But setting the brush to the softest curve in the tablet control panel the 100% size is the same, so it is not a pen pressure calibration issue.
Nothing to do with the actual brush size, even in 100% applied pressure! And no, it is not even the hardness!

[keiichi77]

I checked: when I use a brush that has no pressure sensitivity applied the cursor is right. After I enable pressure and set the dynamics to 100%, the cursor changes to a 100% larger cursor, though I didn't change the actual cursor size at all. It is just stupid. If I add pressure sensitivity to a 128 px size brush, the dynamics pressure settings change the effective size of the brush cursor to 255px! What is that! Why???
Even considering this, using the 128px size brush with 255px cursor I cannot reach 128px size at 100% pressure!!!