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Problem w/ brushes (turned into crosshairs)

I have numerous brushes, mostly of things and textures such as blood. Recently, PS crashed and I lost most of the brushes that I loaded, so I reloaded them again and everything was fine until I realized that when I selected a brush and moved it over to my canvas, there was no 'preview' of the brush (the shape/outline of the brush wasn't there). In its place was a crosshair. This is the same for all of my brushes. It's a bit frustrating because I want to be able to see the outline so that I know where I'm going to put the shape. How do I fix this?

Chances are Caps Lock is on. or Precise Cursor is selected in your Preferences.

either that or your brush size is at a minimum

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More problems & a question

Caps Lock wasn't on and neither was Precise Cursor selected and the brush sizes weren't at a minimum. However, something went right and they fixed themselves after some closing and opening of PS.

Unfortunately, PS is now crashing all the time and I keep losing my brushes. I've deleted the Pref file, but it still happens now and then.

Also, is there any way to rotate the brushes before applying them to a canvas? It's probably a noob question, but any help would be appreciated.

What do you mean rotate the brushes? Change the lineup of the brushes? Change the angle the brush strokes at?

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Change the angle the brush strokes at?

Yep, that. Before applying the brush to the canvas.

try edit>preferences>display&cursors