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iMac 4K, photoshop blinking, flashing into black while using brushes... anyone knows how to fix this bug? thank you in advance! and happy new year guys!

iMac 4K, Photoshop blinking, flashing into black while using brushes...disgusting issue which kills the concept of buying iMac for serious Photoshop work... anyone knows how to fix this bug? thank you in advance! and happy new year guys!

iMac, 4K

Posted on Dec 31, 2015 8:53 PM

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Oct 14, 2016 6:39 AM in response to bombsta

I've had this problem ever since I bought my iMac, 3 months ago. Nothing that Apple Care suggested seemed to work. Then, while fiddling cluelessly with the System Settings, I may have fixed it.

Go to Displays, choose "Scaled", and then select some resolution other than "default". Then, where you chose "Scaled", change back to "Default". This did the trick for me. Immediately after that, the flashes stopped and it's been a couple of weeks now.

By the way, this bug is not exclusive to Photoshop. It happens whenever a custom cursor changes back to a default one. Even some websites (like zappos) can suffer from this.

iMac 4K, photoshop blinking, flashing into black while using brushes... anyone knows how to fix this bug? thank you in advance! and happy new year guys!

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