Brush texture acting randomly

[omena]

I'm working with a tablet and this particular brush. Sometimes I have this result with this brush:

And this is what I would like to have but the brush suddenly turns to this:

while I haven't even touched the settings. I have tried to figure out why it's acting that way by trying different settings.

 

[IamSam]

Take a screen shot of your Brush Tools option bar. (Not the Brush Panel/settings)

 

[omena]

Is this ok?

 

[IamSam]

Yes this is fine. I don't see anything odd about the way you have the brush set up.

The second image looks consistent with the brush. I'm not exactly sure what differences your seeing between the two images you originally posted.

 

[omena]

Sorry the second picture was accidentally there. So you can't tell why sometimes the brush is like in the first picture or how I could set the setting so it could work that way?

 

[IamSam]

I'm still somewhat lost, I cant tell what the brush is doing different. I don't understand what your wanting the brush to look like.

Try doing some new brush work in a small area on a new document with a black brush and a white BG, so you can demonstrate what the brush is doing.

 

[omena]

I can't really demonstrate it any better because I can't make it to look like in the first picture. The problem is that I have the same setting and same brush and I want the look the first picture and I get what's in the second one. Except when it randomly makes that what's in the first picture. I think there's a quite of a difference. I was hoping it was just some kind of bug or wrong settings?

 

[omena]

Though I can tell PS gets really slow when the brush is like in the first picture.

 

[IamSam]

Try resetting your preferences.

This is how to reset your preferences in Photoshop: Press-and-hold Command-Option-Shift on a Mac or Ctrl-Alt-Shift on a PC, while you start Photoshop. As you start the program you will get a pop-up dialog asking you if you would like to delete the settings file. Deleting the file will create a new set of preferences from scratch.

 

[omena]

I already tried that.

 

[IamSam]

This is not the brush then. Since you can't re-create the texture in your first image, then something in the settings got changed. The brush can only do what it's told to do.

Undo all the settings for that brush and start from scratch. Try the brush after each setting change until you have it acting the way you desire. Try the brush with the tablet and without, this may help to narrow down where the problem is.

If your thoroughly convinced that the settings did not change and the brush is acting on it's own accord, then you might try uninstalling Ps and then reinstalling it.

 

[omena]

I'm pretty sure I used the default setting for that brush but somehow the texture was different when the first picture happened. Then after that I couldn't find that texture anymore. There was default textures + this texture. I have tried many setting but I'm running out of time. Could it be my tablet? If I accidentally pushed some button in my tablet? What setting it could have changed?

 

[IamSam]

Well, you set up your tablet, are there any buttons that could change the brush settings?

Experiment to see if any changes happen.