Photoshop CC 2018: Selected a brush but instead it changed to a tool

Much better!

Still, this seems more like a temporary patch than a permanent fix (especially since it's not mentioned on the What's New page). It's not exactly intuitive or user friendly, and there's still no way to keep the same brush while switching tools--you have to switch tools and then find the brush again.

Now that the issue is on Adobe's radar, I hope to see a more complete solution implemented soon.

Why would you make something harder to do then before? There was nothing wrong with the latest brushes list. Who complained that he can't find another tool there?

Software needs to be streamlined not more complicated. Ctrl+Alt+click, really? That's the most cumbersome solution to an absolutely unnecessary complication.

I DO NOT want to hold down 2 additional buttons just to choose a brush shape.
This is not a solution... you made it worse.

If you really want to show latest tool specific presets just make another line for it in the right click menu, and don't mess up a perfectly valid workflow.

Ever thought about tablet PC-s?

Agreed, I could just set the brush to clear if it was easy to use a complicated shortcut, but it's not a great replacement for just changing the tool and then selecting any of the recent brushes.

Why can't we work this way again?

Thanks Mike!  This workaround will help a lot.  I was duplicating my brushes and making sure to uncheck "Include Tool Settings," but this will be more helpful!

This better be a temporary workaround, because photoshop is getting a lot of painting competition. As it is I'm buying Rebelle to give it a shot. I know it wasn't intentional for photoshop to be used as a painting program, but are you really going to lose that niche market with bad decisions like this? 

> This better be a temporary workaround, because photoshop is getting a lot of painting competition>

I don't find it a bad decision because I have a lot of Brush tools, I find it really helpful to have them in the same place, and now I can eliminate the tool part of the setting with modifier keys and use a brush tip for an eraser or any other tool the original preset wasn't designed to use. At the same time, I don't wind up modifying the preset itself, which I don't want to do, and I don't have to remember that oh yes, that isn't a brush preset, it's a tool preset and I'm in the wrong place.

Holding down modifiers is the same method I use for quick access to the color wheel, for altering size and hardness, and just about everything else I might be doing in Photoshop. I only wish we had more modifier keys or more letters in the alphabet in order to have more kbsc.<G>

And I do use a couple other painting apps, but with all this redesigned, I'm much happier to stay in Photoshop—so it's one of those YMMV features how much you like it, I guess. It took me a bit to remember what keys to use, but now I don't think about it.

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Please get on it fast, it is awful. I have been using cc2017 and am awaiting a permanent fix. This change is extremely disruptive to my workflow and I don't want to have to use a secret 2-modifier keybind + click every time I want to bounce between an eraser, brush or history brush. This is probably the worst unasked for change made yet.

It's driving me round the bend.
I often need a specific shape for an eraser -- that option is now gone.
Please, can we have this back. It's really messed up as it is, right now.

I am finding this a real pain as well - often want to switch brush type or size etc. and am fed up with it switching to a different tool instead, meaning I have to go through a whole lot of extra steps to get the tool to work in the way I want it to.

I agree with this original statement from David Kozma above:

"When I right click with a tool I'm interested in THAT tool. Changing it to another tool from the recent brush list is simply incorrect behaviour."

It isn't an improvement - it is a BUG.

If I want presets for a particular tool, I already have the ability to create and activate them etc. - I don't want the program to decide for me which tool it is appropriate to use.

This change is illogical, incorrect and messes up my workflow.

^^^ The quote in the comment above 1000% this change was awful and this puts into less angry words my exact feelings on this stupid, stupid change. Very obvious nobody making this change uses photoshop to paint.