Cursor size

[Tracy-Gregory Gilmore]

I am using version 4.2.16 on Win10 with a stylus and graphics tablet on a 34inch ultra-wide screen. The application works exactly as expected but I am finding, with the higher resolution of screen, the mouse cursor is incredibly small and annoyingly easy to lose. Is there some way I can increase the cursor size in the application or could an enhancement be considered for the roadmap?

[BoltBait]

 

 

Open your start menu and type "Mouse settings"

 

Run that.

 

Click the link in the upper right corner, "Adjust mouse & cursor size":

 

 

Scale your mouse cursor:

 

[FBooth]

I'm having the same curser issue. Adjusting the system curser doesn't help. My curser is big enough to handle all applications. It's a standard size when outside the gray area.. but immediately becomes micro-sized when inside the gray area and canvas. I tried increasing the brush size - and even zoomed up to 800% to see if that would help, but no.. the + curser is the size of pin head at all times. Please add a button to increase the + when inside the canvas. Thank you 

[BoltBait]

Switch Paint.NET to dark mode. Problem solved. 

[BdR]

Paint.NET is an awesome image editor and I use it a lot, but I'm also finding this issue increasingly annoying. I often find myself wiggling the mouse just to see where the cursor has gone.

 

The problem is that the tiny cursor is lost against the grey background that surrounds the image canvas, see image in attachement. I work with just a standard HD (1080p) monitor, and the cursors for the Select, Paintbrush and Text tools are tiny and hardly have any contrast against this grey background.

 

Admittedly, switching to Darkmode helps with this cursor visibility issue but imho that's no excuse to leave the "Default" or "Light" color schemes and/or cursor appearance unchanged as they are now. Btw also like others have already pointed out, changing the mouse cursor size in the Windows10 settings doesn't have any effect on the Paint.NET cursor.

[Rick Brewster]

On 8/6/2023 at 3:28 AM, BdR said:

Btw also like others have already pointed out, changing the mouse cursor size in the Windows10 settings doesn't have any effect on the Paint.NET cursor.

 

This is now fixed for 5.0.10. You can try the beta here: 

 

[edgar]

Seems to work great! Many thanks!

[BdR]

I'm sorry I keep coming back to this when working with paint.net.

 

The fix with the cursor size works, changing the mouse cursor to 2x or 3x does make it larger and more visible in paint.net and I appreciate the effort for this fix. However, this means I have to change the Windows mouse cursor size so I have a big mouse cursor in all my Windows apps, even though it's just to be able to work with paint.net.

 

But afaik it's mostly due to the default background color and the mouse cursor having low contrast (especially when moving). See the mockup image below.

 

Are you able to repoduce the following steps?

1) open the above image in Paint.net
2) move the (normal 1x size) mouse cursor across the 3 areas, from left to right and right to left
3) notice the mouse cursor seemingly disappears in the center area (almost like an optical illusion)

 

I've checked the Settings -> User Interface -> Color Scheme and the "light" themes (Default / Blue / Light) all have the same border color #CFCFCF.

So my question is, is it possible to change the border background color #CFCFCF to something else for the light themes?

Edited June 23 by BdR

[Tactilis]

The ability to change the canvas background colour will be available in paint.net 5.1.

See the Canvas Customization section of the notes here: https://forums.getpaint.net/topic/126920-paintnet-51-alpha-build-8900/ 

 

You can try this now if you install the alpha build. It's safe to do so but read the other recent posts in the Preview Centre first.

 

 

 

[BdR]

Oh wow, I already had that version 5.1 installed and completely missed that new option. 😀 Thanks, this work great, it's so much better now

Edited June 23 by BdR

[Tactilis]

1 hour ago, BdR said:

Oh wow, I already had that version 5.1 installed and completely missed that new option

It's worth reading all the release notes, including back through each of the previous alphas, which are all linked.

 

 

With regard to your earlier:

2 hours ago, BdR said:

Are you able to repoduce the following steps?

1) open the above image in Paint.net
2) move the (normal 1x size) mouse cursor across the 3 areas, from left to right and right to left
3) notice the mouse cursor seemingly disappears in the center area (almost like an optical illusion)

On my laptop screen, the 1x size mouse cursor is easily visible in all 3 areas. There's honestly no hint of it "disappearing almost like an optical illusion".

So I'm wondering whether your monitor colour/brightness/contrast setup is not optimal?