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Thu, Nov 2, 2017 3:10 PM
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Photoshop CC 2018: Selected a brush but instead it changed to a tool
When using paintbrush and wanting to change from hard brush to a soft brush the brush changes to the clone tool and vice versa when using clone brush
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mike_shaw_2320649
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107 Messages
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3 years ago
Recent brushes created from preset loaded with the shortcut are tool agnostic if the tool specified for the preset differ from the tool it was loaded to.
The Recent Brushes has an icon showing tool association if show additional preset info is enabled on the panel
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hannah_nicollet
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3 years ago
Thanks for the heads up. We're looking into this.
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mike_shaw_2320649
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laura_timmel
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590 Points
3 years ago
On the whole, I'm happy with the new Brushes panel in Photoshop 2018. And I'm thrilled that all of Kyle Webster's brushes (which I'd been drooling over for years) are now included! But, thanks to one major issue, what could have been a major upgrade has become a crippling step backward in functionality:
Most brushes are locked to a particular tool.
This seems to have been a deliberate choice by the dev team, and I get why. Each tool has its own unique settings, and by making a brush tool-specific, those unique settings can be saved along with the brush. That's a great feature, but the problem is that there's no way to use these full-featured brushes with any other tools.
So now, if I want to test out different erasers, I can only use the brushes saved without tool presets (General Brushes and Legacy Brushes) and the Kyle Webster brushes saved as erasers (of which there are very few).
Please, Photoshop devs, add an easy-to-access checkbox that allows the user to either use brushes' tool presets or apply the brush to the selected tool. For instance, "Use Selected Tool" or "Use Tool Preset."
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kynu
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392 Points
3 years ago
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. And it basically ruined my workflow I loved since the recent brushes were introduced.
So: if I see all my recently used brushes there WITHOUT tool settings attached to it I can finally use the same brush very quickly for painting, erasing or smudging. That would make it better, not worse as it is now.
(This is one of the strongest features of Clip Studio Paint: changing to transparency while painting effectively turns your brush into an eraser with the very same settings. Making this possible in PS's world sounds like a very-very good goal. )
So I'd praise this tiny addition to recent brushes but now I'm using an older version of PS because of this (and of course to have device preview :( )
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luisa_uribe
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160 Points
3 years ago
I know this has been a bad change for a lot of illustrators, and it would really help if there was a way to use the brushes with different tools.
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shan_dee_hucn2agd3eqy4
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3 years ago
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mischa_kolbe
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102 Points
3 years ago
Seriously... It's annoying, restrictive and doesn't add anything. Leave that tiny icon to hint at what tool a brush was designed for. Otherwise: Please roll back, it's not useful in the slightest.
Just noticed this is marked as "Solved"..... I strongly disagree.
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kendra_corpier
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104 Points
3 years ago
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nick_hasselblad_6wv8kh72bu32k
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60 Points
2 years ago
1) Select the Background Eraser tool 2) Go to the Brushes panel and select a brush WITHOUT Photoshop jumping to the Brush tool? I don't understand Mike's answer at all Ctrl Alt click seems to have no effect.
thank you
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