[Tillek]

I'm having an odd problem with photoshop. When I paint, I guess the only way to describe it is that the strokes aren't antialiased, but when I let up on the pen photoshop smooths the strokes out. This makes it hard to paint since you can't see the accurate brush strokes until after you've made them.

Anybody know why this happens, and better yet how to fix it?

[egerie]

What version of Photoshop and what brush type are you using ?

[eyewoo]

That is odd... I'm not sure what Photoshop function does something like that... Sounds more like Adobe Illustrator than Photoshop...

[Catfish]

The only tool that I can think of that doesn't take effect until after you lift the brush up is the healing brush in PS7...you're not using that to paint, right?

[Impaler]

That's just the pixel doubling feature that Photoshop uses so you won't kill your computer trying to anti-alias realtime as you paint. It works the same with all the tools. I don't know if there's a way to turn it off.

[HaRdC0rePixxX]

Edit>Preferences>Display & Cursors>uncheck 'Use Pixel Doubling'
(that is, if your are using photoshop 6 or 7).
this option should only be activated on slower systems (<PIII 500) or when working on very big pics, since it avoids the cpu to calculate real time antialising but produces an annoying 'lag effect' (you can't see what you are *exactly* painting before you finish each stroke).

[Tillek]

Thanks for the help guys, the pixel doubling was driving me crazy. Now I just have to apologize to the poor computer that I was using for kicking it so much.