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Let's continue to make our way through the preferences and in this movie we'll talk about the Cursor preferences , We'll start off by talking about the painting cursors , Now, these preferences are actually pretty important because we're going to be using the different brush tools quite often inside of Photo shop , All right, well the first two options in my opinion are worthless , The Standard Brush, we click on here, we see we have a little icon , Really hard to see the size of your Brush tool or the brush that you are using, dozen't really work well for me , Precise, it gives us this little cross hairs , That can be nice because we get rid of the circle , Yet there is a shortcut to get rid of the circle, so again I don't like that option very much , The best options are going to be Normal Brush Tip or Full Size Brush Tip , Now in order to show you how these brushes work, I need to exit out of the Preferences for a moment and to show you how they actually work , So let's do that , Click OK , I'll create a new layer, click on the New Layer icon and here I have another portrait of Lynda Weizmann, and she is a person who continually inspires me as an artist and an educator , All right, well, I have my Brush tool here , I'm going to change the brush size by pressing the left bracket key , We can see that normal brush circle is changing sizes , Well, I can also access the cross hairs by pressing the Caps Lock key there , It navigates the cross hairs , Cross hairs don't work very well for me again because I can't see the size of the brush as I'm painting , So I'll press the Caps Lock key again to turn that off , Yet I need to show that because a lot of times what happens to people who are new to Photo shop is they are working and they are like, where do my brush go? I don't understand what's happening , And what's happened is they accidentally pressed the Caps Lock key , So again you can toggle back and forth between the cross hairs and the brush circle by pressing the Caps Lock key , All right, well, so far so good , We'vie seen how the normal brush works , So one of the things that's interesting in regards to the normal brush, I'll delete our brush stroke, is that if I paint something here, in this case I'm painting black , You'll notice that the brush is actually going outside of the size of my actual circle , So the reach is further than that actual brush circle or that brush size preview , How can we change that? If we go back to Preferences, Command+K on a Mac/Ctr+K on a PC, and we then choose Full Size Brush Tip and click OK , We'll now take a look at how big this brush is , If I keep clicking you'll notice that slowly, slowly, slowly it will build up to that size of that brush , So that gives me the actual reach of the brush which is especially helpful when I'm using a soft-edge brush as I'm using here, and a lot of times in Photo shop you're going to be using those soft-edge brushes , So then the question is, do I actually use this option? Well, I don't, and here's why , I'm going to go back to the Preferences, Command+K on a Mac/Ctr+K on a PC , And I'm going to go back to my Normal Brush Tip and then turn on this new option, show the cross hair in the middle, click OK , Now we can see my brush with those cross hairs in the middle, I'm going to delete what I did there , Make this brush nice and small by pressing the left bracket key , Now as I paint, I know that I can go beyond this, if I keep painting let's say in one spot, back and forth, it's getting bigger and bigger , I like to have that small size because it's going to show me the initial reach of my brush , So again the initial pass, notice that it is about the size of that brush , Now if I were to go back over that, yes, it's getting bigger , It's slowly building up out beyond that reach , And I want to see that initial size plus I like that the graphic for this brush is much more simple , So that's the preference that I recommend , Press Command+K on a Mac/ Ctr+K on a PC, navigate back to your cursors , The next option we have is our Brush Preview, now this Brush Preview is incredibly important because there is a new shortcut inside of C'S which allows us to change our brush size , Currently the color is red , I'm going to click OK, navigate back to the document, delete all those brush strokes, because I just made those in order to illustrate a point, and hover over the document , Now you remember the shortcut, right , On a Mac it's Command+Option-click-and-drag, and I can change the overall brush size , And then on a PC it's the Alt+Right mouse button and drag, and then you get that brush size , So what I'm seeing here in that preview, red color was determined in my Preferences , Let's open up those Preferences , Command+K on a Mac/Ctr+K on a PC , Go to Cursors, you can change that color , I'll go ahead and change this to a nice color, let's say, kind of a muted blue there , That's kind of interesting color, click OK and then exit out of your Preferences , Now, voila! You have that new preview color , So that's really going to be continued upon your own preference , I'm a visual guy so that bright red USN't very appealing to me , I'm going to go for a little bit more of an interesting color , So I'm going to try to find one that's appealing to me , All right, well, let's go back to Preferences , Command+K on a Mac/Ctr+K on a PC and click on Cursors , Now I'm going to set this back to that default red color because I want to keep things somewhat normalized so as we progress to this training, we all are saying the same thing in case anyone skip this movie , All right, the next set of options have to do with Other Cursors , Here we have Standard or Precise, we either have the tool or it looks a little bit like a target or cross hairs , In this case the default setting of Standards is going to work really well, and let me show you why , I'll click Okay, grab the Eyedropper tool by pressing the I key on the keyboard , Now what this is going to do is going to sample a color when it changes from Point Sample to one of the other averaging like 5 by 5 Average , And then I click over the skin area here and when I do that I know that it's sampling the area right at the end of that tool , I'm not painting with this tool; I'm clicking a particular point , The icon for that tool, that graphic, makes sense to me , I know exactly where I'm sampling that color and again I could move over to a different color just to illustrate , We can see here as I click around, I'm sampling different tones, not really colors because this is a black and white image , But in my opinion that preference works well.
