I cannot reset my brushes in Photoshop CC 2017.1.0

[ajm057LR]

Hi -- for some reason no matter what I do the active area of my brushes seems to be only 60% of the diameter of the "size" of the brush I have selected. It matters not if this is the brush tool, a healing brush, clone stamp, eraser or any other brush -- the behaviour is the same - I am not aware of setting any feathering - the behaviour does not look like feathering and have forgotten where to look.  As can be seen in the example below -- I have set the brush size, but I only get part of the diameter painted (etc..)

My brush settings are shown below. Does anyone have an idea how to fix this ?

[davidc1815]

If you haven't already, try the Normal Brush cursor...

David

[ajm057LR]

Thanks but  - I already tried switching to Cursors from Normal to Full and back to Normal and this makes no difference - at normal or full.

[JoeLib]

You might have a corrupted preference file.

Reset your Photoshop Preferences.

Joe

[ajm057LR · Accepted solution]

OK thanks to the help in the retouching forum in DPReview - I have found out what I did.

MartinGus - Have you by any chance changed the cursor size in Mac OS? System Preferences> Accessibility> and then set it to "normal" (if changed). I had this problem with an earlier version of PS and after trying "everything" this solved it for me. Maybe a longshot since it´s not the same PS or MacOS version but maybe worth a try.

Me -- MartinGus - you are aces -- yes I had - so not a long shot at all -- and putting it back to normal fixes it -- BUT I now have the problem of not being able to find my mouse cursor -- Apple give you very few choices.  Thanks to all I now know what I did to break this. This issue is now resolved.