Where did color go on paths in CS4?

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Kurt_Lang
Oct 31, 2008
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This under Mac OS X Leopard, 10.5.5.

I was really hoping that Adobe would bring back color to the precise cursors in CS4. Makes it much easier when you’re doing a lot of paths to both keep track of the cursor and place it more accurately for your next anchor point. The varying gray colors can literally disappear depending on what pixel values they’re over.

What happens instead? Color is removed from the anchor points and segments! Now it’s difficult to see both the cursor and your path against the image. Why on Earth did Adobe do this?

Please, PLEASE, bring back color to these functions!!!
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KL
Kurt_Lang
Oct 31, 2008
Okay, that’s what I get for griping before trying a few more things (just installed the CS4 Creative Suite yesterday). The above information is only partially correct.

You do get color on path segments and anchor points, but they very between highly contrasted to almost invisible. Over white or yellow, they change to black. No problem there. Over a rich red, they turn kind of a salmon color. Not bad. But over a rich cyan or green, the colors are only a shade or two darker or lighter, depending on the color of the underlying pixels, making it difficult to see the path.

Second, you can make PS CS4 display paths in the old color contrasting scheme, but you must turn off Open GL Drawing in the preferences to do so. Which of course makes some things, like the Rotate View Tool inaccessible.

The cursor, no matter what settings you choose, still remains only black, white, or shades of gray. Ick!

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