Photoshop: Real-time, hotkey control for Brush Rotation

If you have a Wacom tablet and the art tip pen you can control pen rotation that way.

This is not true.
It's not a default on the Intuos 4 and there isn't a hot key to map it.

http://forums.adobe.com/message/2728392

HOW ABOUT a feature when you can orient the angle of brush.stamp.etc without opening the panel where you have all the option?It would help for a fast workflow.For example when using the smudge tool to create hair.To keep the orientation for the hair direction you have to open the brush panel every time the orientation change its angle.It can be a shortcut like Space+R.

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Brush,Stamp,Smudge Brush Rotation a better solution.

I love using control+option to change brush size on the fly, but I think it'd be even cooler if you could add the shift key to rotate the brush with live visual feedback (especially for clone and heal tools).

This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Photoshop: quick easy brush rotation with visual feedback.

I'd love to have this as well!

There are the hotkeys SHIFT+OPTION+> and < but the speed/increment is too tiny.

At a minimum I'd love to see a preference to control the increment so that I can map the key stroke to my tablet's touch strip/ring to quickly rotate interactively.

I would definitely use this feature to rotate a brush as I am painting...just like in real life. Artist always shift and rotate the brush almost every time a stroke is created. The engineers need to pick up a real brush and paint so they can understand what we need.

This is so needed feature, i have no idea how many votes it needs to get in, but I can imagine there are so many people like me, who don't know about this voting. Otherwise it would get at least thousand.

Add my vote. Today I searched in vain any working solution. I wish I could set my brush angle with Wacom scroll wheel. Please Adobe!

This is apparently an old thread, but I've been searching for a keystroke combination I can assign to an F key, or to my Wacom Intuos to change the brush angle without having to open the separate palette every time.

I agree, Clayton. I wish there was a hot-key solution as I am still not very proficient with the Wacom Pen. Rotation, like others have said, would be a very nice feature.

warning, bit of rant mixed in:

the general brush settings need a huge overhaul and loads more customization and hotkeyability. general brush management and brush preset modification is prehistoric and terrible but theres other threads for that.

the art pen is very clumsy and the tip of the pen body is too thick even if you strip all the rubber and grind off most of the front plastic, still cant fully utilize tilt then, and the nib has alot of play to it that i didnt mange to diy stabilize compared to grip/pro pen, especially if using the regular nibs and not the proper art pen ones, which are clumsy for precision drawing, impossible to do precision stuff for me and make it feel like a pencil no matter what i do to it, there is also huge data problems with it, either lag or slow update rate which makes quick faded out stroke ends not register compared to the pro/grip pen (on cintiq 13hd and intuos4 at least, the tech suport confirmed it for me, too much data apparently because of the added rotation), also if you make a huge thin brush (whole screen size) and observe how it behaves if you just hold the pen without rotating, just move very slightly, it will rotate quite abit on its own, its very unprecise (i tried few of them, all the same).  so i found it impossible to do precision drawing with it, especially when caffeinated (as someone already mentioned here), its very triggering and no matter how much i was looking forward to getting one, once i got it i actualy never used it because of all that

the hotkey system needs an overhaul, allow us to control rotation, then we'll find a way to bind it to a midi controller rotary knob or something, allow us to create per brush hotkeys without having to create actions to select brushes,  stuff like that, workflow speed and brush+hotkey customizability. take a deep look at manga studio and take notes about brush customizability and potential workflow speed cap. and then add your sick tech on top of that and ill never need to open manga studio again

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it's amazing that this option is still not implemented, may be CTRL +
Left Mouse button = brush rotate

Currently I'm using a script I made as a shortcut to increment and decrement the brush angle with F1 and F2. I'm planning to create a widget so you can change the angle by dragging from the widget. You can follow can me on twitter @patrickdeen if you're interested.

Just adding my voice. Would love to see that feature implemented in Photoshop!