Lost outline on clone tool

[Beth Haney]

First take a look at the size, in pixels, of the brush you're using when compared to the resolution of the image you're working on. If you are working on a 150ppi image, a brush setting of 25 pixels will look much bigger than the same 25 pixel brush on a 300ppi image. It's a proportion thing. You can check the brush size in the Option Bar. This is one of the more common things that will throw people off.

[Byron Gale]

Also, having CAPS LOCK enabled will force your cursor into "precision" mode,
which is a cross-hair cursor.

[Tel]

Look at the preferences settings, displays and cursors. There you can choose, for the brush, outline, precision or symbol. The + is the precision setting.
Tel.