There are times when it is convenient to draw paths outside the actual image canvas, a good example of this is when you need a nice smooth curve that goes off the edge of your image – those curve handles can get very tricky to manipulate when they get very short!
We have all had this happen at one stage or another – you brush…nothing, you brush again…arghh, its broken you might think! However, there are lots of little things that stop brushes doing what they are meant to do before you reach up for the Adobe install discs, and here are the solutions!
Have you ever come across this situation – you change to a brush based tool in Photoshop, but no matter how big or small you make the brush it just displays a small crosshair instead of the brush outline, even if you change the preference? This also might be mistaken for the brush disappearing as the crosshair is very small and tricky to see making you think that the brush size is not visible.