Possibly many of you already know first hand that the popular image editor Adobe Photoshop offers almost all the functions that we need. Whether we are new users or professionals in the sector, working with our photos here allows us to obtain the results we are looking for. But we can also configure the application to make it more effective, like these changes in the cursor that we will talk about.
The first thing we should know, as it is easy to imagine, is that this application offers us many customizable parameters. All this allows us to adapt a good part of the functions and interface of the photo editor to our way of using it. Here the level that we have in this type of tasks has a great influence, as well as the ways of working to which we are accustomed. An element that usually goes quite unnoticed, both in Photoshop and in the rest of the applications, is the cursor that we see on the screen. This is the pointing element that we constantly work with and manage through the mouse.
It goes without saying that when it comes to performing tasks such as editing photos , this cursor that we are talking about is an extremely important object. So much so that the Adobe program offers us a series of parameters that allow us to adapt this element to what we need. That is why we are going to talk about how to customize this very useful object in the program to edit images. We will find all this in its configuration section that we access through the menu option Edit / Preferences / Cursors.
Adjust the behavior of the cursor in Photoshop
At that moment, the program configuration window will appear on the screen with the different available categories located in the left panel. In this case we will be directly located in the Cursors section, where we find the possibility of customizing two different ones. On the one hand, we have the possibility of adapting the so-called Paint Cursors to what we need. Here we have several options depending on the type of use that we are going to make of this element, that is, Standard, Precise , Normal Tip , or full size.
In turn, we will also have the possibility of adapting its appearance in order to be able to work more comfortably with this object. We can even add a cross, or make the cursor disappear in certain circumstances and modes of use. At this point, what we recommend is to try several of these configurations so that you are sure which is the one that interests us the most or is the most comfortable. We must know that the changes that we carry out here can be undone at any time and return to the original configuration .
It is also interesting to know that, in this same window, but in the Other cursors section, we have the possibility of activating the Precision option . As you can imagine, this change will allow us to work in more detail on editing our images with the Adobe program.
Of course, we must bear in mind that, to get the most out of this functionality, it is advisable to have a mouse of a certain quality . In fact, this is a hardware component in which we are interested in investing a little more money mainly due to the widespread use we make of it.