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:

http://fc29.deviantart.com/fs38/f/2008/328/9/5/9572ecd6c2ddc763305d96229c9184b8.jpg

[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%