Bobbie Gee Posted August 12 Share Posted August 12 I am studying from a beginners tutorial. But, something happened to the cursor or pointer won't change into tools. It stays on a cross hairs symbol. I am stuck! I can't go forward with following my lessons on my own software. Please help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hangman Posted August 12 Share Posted August 12 Hi @Bobbie Gee and welcome to the forums, Which Affinity app are you using? Could you provide a link to the tutorial you're watching so we can see the steps involved? At what time code in the tutorial do you see this happening? Quote Affinity Designer 2.5.5 | Affinity Photo 2.5.5 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.5 MacBook Pro M3 Max, 36 GB Unified Memory, macOS Sonoma 14.6.1, Magic Mouse HP ENVY x360, 8 GB RAM, AMD Ryzen 5 2500U, Windows 10 Home, Logitech Mouse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobbie Gee Posted August 12 Author Share Posted August 12 I am using Affinity Photo 2 on my Mac. It really doesn't have anything to do with the tutorial. I am just following along, on my computer. I clicked on something and the pointer won't pick up the brush tool and make a circle. It stays this 4 point cross symbol. It is just something real simple fix, but since I hardly know anything, yet, about the Affinity program, I am stuck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hangman Posted August 12 Share Posted August 12 5 minutes ago, Bobbie Gee said: I clicked on something and the pointer won't pick up the brush tool and make a circle. It stays this 4 point cross symbol. What width do you see for the selected brush in the Context toolbar... anything below 12 px (for a 300 dpi document) tends to only show the crosshair... If your document is 72 dpi that value will likely be around 2.5 px... With the Brush tool selected try clicking the right square arrow key on your keyboard a few times to increase the brush size and see if the circle becomes visible... Quote Affinity Designer 2.5.5 | Affinity Photo 2.5.5 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.5 MacBook Pro M3 Max, 36 GB Unified Memory, macOS Sonoma 14.6.1, Magic Mouse HP ENVY x360, 8 GB RAM, AMD Ryzen 5 2500U, Windows 10 Home, Logitech Mouse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobbie Gee Posted August 12 Author Share Posted August 12 THAT WAS IT!! The pixel size. I must have made it too small by using the bracket keys. Thank you so much. There is so much to know, and so easy to get into trouble. 😳 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hangman Posted August 12 Share Posted August 12 1 minute ago, Bobbie Gee said: THAT WAS IT!! The pixel size. I must have made it too small by using the bracket keys. Thank you so much. There is so much to know, and so easy to get into trouble. 😳 That's no problem at all, I'm glad you have everything working again... Quote Affinity Designer 2.5.5 | Affinity Photo 2.5.5 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.5 MacBook Pro M3 Max, 36 GB Unified Memory, macOS Sonoma 14.6.1, Magic Mouse HP ENVY x360, 8 GB RAM, AMD Ryzen 5 2500U, Windows 10 Home, Logitech Mouse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted August 12 Share Posted August 12 In the preferences, User Interface section, you may have Always show brush crosshair checked. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.5 | Affinity Photo 2.5.5 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.5 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hangman Posted August 12 Share Posted August 12 10 minutes ago, Old Bruce said: In the preferences, User Interface section, you may have Always show brush crosshair checked The circle is always shown, that setting just adds the cross hair to the existing circle (or brush shape)… Quote Affinity Designer 2.5.5 | Affinity Photo 2.5.5 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.5 MacBook Pro M3 Max, 36 GB Unified Memory, macOS Sonoma 14.6.1, Magic Mouse HP ENVY x360, 8 GB RAM, AMD Ryzen 5 2500U, Windows 10 Home, Logitech Mouse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted August 12 Share Posted August 12 CapsLock is another possible cause of this, I believe, in V2. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobbie Gee Posted August 12 Author Share Posted August 12 Hangman had the right answer for me. I must have made the pointer too small. I had 1pix wide. Thank you all for your replies. You are all geniuses from my perspective. 😀🙏 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RayCr Posted August 14 Share Posted August 14 On 8/12/2024 at 8:35 PM, walt.farrell said: CapsLock is another possible cause of this, I believe, in V2. Many thanks. This was doing my head in. I knew it was a simple press, but assumed it was an accidental shortcut activation by me. Cheers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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