Need Help: Brushes drawing a series of circles, not a constant brushstroke. :(

[badass]

I am working with Photoshop Elements (it came with my new Intuos 3) and I am having a technical problem.

Everything has been working fine, but today there has been/is a problem. The brush stroke (the normal plain brush, not the airbrush or the other brushes) appears as a series of circles on top of each other instead of a steady gradient /smooth transition.

Please let me know if anyone has any suggestions or has had similar problems, Thanks!

(PS: I have messed with toggling pressure sensitivity, opacity and brush size)

[Equality72521]

put your spacing down to zero on your brush tip shapes, that should solve your problem

[badass]

I feel like such an idiot haha.

Thanks though

[Orkidea]

I have the same problem (with CS4) yet changing the spacing doesn't help. If I drag spacing all the way down (the lowest is 1%) then it's the same, then I uncheck the spacing box, and then it just appears as two dots with huge spacing between them.

It's seriously annoying, and I've tried everything. Thought that since there already is a thread about this, that I wouldn't start another one

Also, I've been trying to fiddle with size jitter and everything else, nothing seems to work. Does anyone know what's wrong? Here's an image of how it comes out:

[The7Artist7]

Sorry if you have already tried this but just to make sure -

Try: under brush presets/ uncheck all boxes apart from 'smoothing' and 'shape dynamics' - click on 'shape dynamics' and set everything to '0' and 'off' apart from setting the 'size jitter' control to 'pen pressure' (if you want to use a pen)

Also spacing should to be set to 1% (and it's perfectly normal to do what it did when you uncheck the spacing box)

Hope that helps - if not let us know

As far as I can tell it looks very much like either size-jitter, roundness-jitter or scatter are set to more than 0%