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Photoshop: Rotate Brush Tip 'On the fly' (Keyboard shortcut, Mouse-wheel or Click + Drag)
This may seem wild, but many ideas might've seem that way when first introduced, so bare with me as I believe it would be rather sexy addition to using brushes in Photoshop.
Imagine you choose a brush tip and are ready to use it in your art. But it's not quite right and you could use the Brush Tip to rotate few degrees. So you go to your Brush Palate and Brush Tip Shape Palate and manually rotate the wheel in that Dialog Box or type the number of degrees in a Angle Box(°).
Then you go back to your art and continue using the newly set up brush. Until - you need to adjust the rotation of the Tip again, and again... you get the point.
Wouldn't it be fantastic if we can rotate the Brush Tip 'on the fly' without having to go to the brush palate over and over again, just like we can now change it's size and softness?
Perhaps Left Bracket and Right Bracket would rotate the brush Tip CCW and CW by a 1° (by 10° with Shift) or in increments you set up in Preferences?
Wouldn't that be something?
I am aware of similar function can be achieved using the Pen Tool. This idea however would be available for both, Pen and Mouse and for all Tools using Brush Tip, including Stamp (Clone) Tool.
If this is already possible and I was living in the dark, please enlighten me.
Imagine you choose a brush tip and are ready to use it in your art. But it's not quite right and you could use the Brush Tip to rotate few degrees. So you go to your Brush Palate and Brush Tip Shape Palate and manually rotate the wheel in that Dialog Box or type the number of degrees in a Angle Box(°).
Then you go back to your art and continue using the newly set up brush. Until - you need to adjust the rotation of the Tip again, and again... you get the point.
Wouldn't it be fantastic if we can rotate the Brush Tip 'on the fly' without having to go to the brush palate over and over again, just like we can now change it's size and softness?
Perhaps Left Bracket and Right Bracket would rotate the brush Tip CCW and CW by a 1° (by 10° with Shift) or in increments you set up in Preferences?
Wouldn't that be something?
I am aware of similar function can be achieved using the Pen Tool. This idea however would be available for both, Pen and Mouse and for all Tools using Brush Tip, including Stamp (Clone) Tool.
If this is already possible and I was living in the dark, please enlighten me.
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stephen_nielson
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Enjoy!
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jean_pierre_turcotte
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pierre_courtejoie
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vaughan_greer
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9 years ago
Rotating brushes using the widget in the brushes panel is archaic and a major impediment to my workflow.
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
When are we going to get a keyboard shortcut for ROTATING BRUSHES?.
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FerdiCildiz
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vaughan_greer
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roman_laney
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9 years ago
While we're on the subject; keyboard commands to brighten or darken the current color, add or remove red, add or remove blue, add or remove green, increase saturation, decrease saturation all to the current color would be a great option under the hood of PS. Thanks for listening!
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Photoshop: Keyboard keys for rotating brush.
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allison_westbrook
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jean_pierre_turcotte
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candra_nur_rokhman
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set your Angle, for example 90°
-go to Brush Presets and save your brush without capture brush size in preset
-repeat with different Angle (90°,65°,45°,25°,0°,-25°,-45°,-65°,-90°)
-now you can use < and > to change that brush
-if you have two or more brushes you can use "tool presets" with 0° as the default
I hope this can help
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candra_nur_rokhman
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8 years ago
set your Angle, for example 90°
-go to Brush Presets and save your brush without capture brush size in preset
-repeat with different Angle (90°,65°,45°,25°,0°,-25°,-45°,-65°,-90°)
-now you can use , and . to change that brush
-if you have two or more brushes you can use "tool presets" with 0° as the default
I hope this can help
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jean_pierre_turcotte
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alphavalues
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7 years ago
Photoshop: Keyboard shortcut for "Brush Rotation" and "Brush Roundness".
I want to rotate my brush with my Wacom Intuos5 ring. To do that, I need to be able to use keystrokes to change the rotation angle of the brush. Looking in Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts > Tools we have "Brush Hardness" and "Brush Size"* but no option for "Brush Angle". Huge bonus points for adding keyboard controls for "Brush Roundness", too, but that's not as important to me.
Thanks!
*these are handled well by Wacom
I'm using Photoshop CC 14.1.2 x64 (Windows)
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