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Q: Aperture 3.6: Disappearing Brush Cursor

I experience the following issue with brushes in Aperture:


In full-screen mode the brush only gets bigger to a certain amount, than does not visibly get bigger any more. If I try to paint with it, I can only see the standard mouse-pointer. The brush though, paints in the selected size. This is of course out of control, cause I can't really see what I am doing there. The brush works fine to a rather small brush size.

 

My config:

 

iMac 5K, AMD Radeon R9 M295X, OS X Yosemite 10.10, Aperture 3.6

 

Any help is appreciated.

 

Rainer

Aperture 3, OS X Yosemite (10.10)

Posted on Nov 5, 2014 2:51 AM

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Q: Aperture 3.6: Disappearing Brush Cursor

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  • by Kirby Krieger,

    Kirby Krieger Kirby Krieger Nov 5, 2014 4:44 AM in response to rleidl
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    Nov 5, 2014 4:44 AM in response to rleidl

    Hi Rainer,

     

    Send me your computer — I'll examine it  .

     

    Since your machine is new, I'd go straight to Apple Support for this one.  I regularly experience the missing cursor when I open my hole in the shade of the giant sequoias (i.e.: using Aperture under Yosemite).  Does making another program active, and then switching back to Aperture resurrect the cursor?  Does is show if you just wait a couple of minutes?

     

    I suspect you will be asked to go through all the trouble-shooting steps, including deleting your user preferences.  Additional trouble-shooting steps will include seeing what happens with a new user account, and/or removing all of the log-in programs from your user account.

     

    Does the problem occur in the regular windowed environment (not full-screen)?

  • by rleidl,

    rleidl rleidl Nov 5, 2014 12:21 PM in response to Kirby Krieger
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    Nov 5, 2014 12:21 PM in response to Kirby Krieger

    Kirby,

     

    thanks for the answer. Switching back and forth from another Application makes it worse, Aperture will only show the standard mouse pointer. The problem does occur in windowed environment as well. And after working for a couple of minutes w/ Aperture under Yosemite: omg - this is very far away from where it belongs. Very erratic behaviour. Let's hope for an update.

  • by rleidl,Solvedanswer

    rleidl rleidl Nov 7, 2014 4:56 AM in response to rleidl
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    Nov 7, 2014 4:56 AM in response to rleidl

    Hi,

     

    the problem is solved - or maybe it disappeared just so. I made two changes to my machine:


    First I got rid of x-rite profiling software and the running services wich came w/ the calibration software. I just did this, because the services caused lots of dumps and console messages.

     

    Then I changed the preview size in Aperture preferences to "don't limit"; I had them limited to "half-size". I just guessed that using my library from a machine with a much bigger resolution (imac 5K) could have anything to do w/ my problem.

     

    I did NOT generate new previews or had my originals newly developed. At least I did not tell Aperture to do so.

     

    I do not know if all of the above has anything todo with the brush-cursor in Aperture, but it simply works now. Brushes size from zero to 200 and back flawlessly.

     

    Cheers,

     

    Rainer

  • by Pochop,

    Pochop Pochop Feb 27, 2015 5:42 AM in response to rleidl
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    Feb 27, 2015 5:42 AM in response to rleidl

    I am having the same exact problem with the same exact configuration.

     

    I do not have x-rite profiling software, and my Aperture preview preference is already set to "Do not limit"

     

    Has anybody found another solution?