From the course: Mastering Selections in Photoshop CC
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Configuring your mouse - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Mastering Selections in Photoshop CC
Configuring your mouse
- With the default settings in Photoshop, your mouse pointer, or the cursor, is not always especially useful, and that can especially be a problem when you're creating selections because often times, with a selection, you need a center degree of precision. For example here, if I'm working with the Lasso Tool, you can see that my mouse pointer has this lasso sort of a shape and a little arrow. That doesn't make it very easy to see exactly where I'm painting with that tool, or tracing in the case of the Lasso Tool. If I go to the Photoshop Menu on the Macintosh version of Photoshop, or the Edit Menu on the Windows version, and then choose Preferences followed by Cursors. That will bring up the Preferences Dialogue, where I can specify the shape that I want to use for my mouse cursor, or my mouse pointer. You'll see that the Painting Cursors, at the moment, it is set to Standard which will reveal just a little icon for the tool that you're using. And for other cursors, I also have the…
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