Pencil tool center/crosshair offset to bottom right corner at 2px size

[Vayra]

What happened here and how can I undo it? I've dug through all the settings, and can't seem to find anything. I even reinstalled Photoshop and removed my settings. It's offset down and to the right on any even-numbered brush size, but placed correctly dead center on any odd-numbered brush size. I swear it wasn't always like this. The ideal behavior, and how I remember it working, would be for it to "target" the grid point between the center 4 pixels on even sizes.

[Barbara Ash]

Under the View menu, see if snap is turned on.

[Barbara Ash]

And in Tools preferences, see if snap is on.

[Vayra]

Hi, thanks. Unfortunately I tried both and neither seems to solve it.

[Vayra]

Just as a followup note, things I have tried:

- Turning "View > Snap" off

- Turning "Preferences > Tools > Snap vector tools and transforms to pixel grid" off

- Changing the settings in "Preferences > Cursors"

- Resetting brush settings

- Uninstalling and reinstalling Photoshop

- deleting the Photoshop folder in /appdata/ and restarting Photoshop

None of these have changed the behavior. I'm certain it wasn't always like this and used to center on the pixel grid intersection in the center of even-px sized pencil brushes.

[Barbara Ash]

I tried it on my computer and the crosshair is in the same position as yours is when the Pencil is set to 2 pixels. I don't see any way to change that.

You could report it to Adobe. Feature Request/Bug Report Form

[Vayra]

Thanks, I'll do that. Unfortunate that there's no way to change this right now.

[Barbara Ash]

Not a show-stopper, but It certainly is annoying.

[Vayra]

Posted on the other forum: Photoshop: Option to center crosshair on pixel grid intersection for pencil brush at even-numbered p...

Linking it here in case anyone else is confused by this and would like to go "me too" that post.

[Vayra]

In case anyone was wondering, by the way, this is my issue with the new behavior. I drew the black pixels on the right-hand side with symmetry active, and the resulting copies on the left are offset by one pixel.

[Sebastian Bleak]

Wow! I've never seen that. I was going to tell you to do a hard reset on your preferences but I think Barbara is right, you should report this in the bug form.

[Jeff Arola]

Unfortunately, that's nothing new.

Photoshop 6.0.1 (circa 2000) running on mac os 9.

First photoshop version to show crosshair with pencil tool.