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1.8K Points
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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sascha_michael_maerz
2 Messages
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78 Points
7 y ago
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stepanrabbi
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170 Points
6 y ago
Ability to assign hot keys for rotating brush
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drchaos
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70 Points
6 y ago
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zhang_zheng
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60 Points
6 y ago
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jim_epler_7058260
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70 Points
6 y ago
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adobe_premedia14
2 Messages
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80 Points
6 y ago
Hello. We are here a lot of graphic designers how really want a shortcut to rotate the brushes without opening the window each time. There is already one to resize and change hardness. Regards, Philippe.
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jean_pierre_turcotte
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274 Points
6 y ago
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yinyin_tang
1 Message
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80 Points
6 y ago
and see this thread...
JPierre33 you are so funny hahahahha
i am using the shoutcut "R" to rotate the picture,
so that i can use my bursh at different angles,
but it still very annoying......
COME ON ADOBE!!! IT IS 2015 !!!!
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zheng_zhang_7138410
3 Messages
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84 Points
6 y ago
some comments from adobe photo shop...:DDD very helpful.
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christopher_rotter
187 Messages
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2.6K Points
6 y ago
I too want to see an option to rotate the brush though some sort of short-cut, I'm hoping this is the year.
In the mean time, I'm sure by now, or atleast I hope by now Adobe has got the message alot of people want to see a short-cut to rotate brushes.
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dane_custance_7160005
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60 Points
6 y ago
I would like to see brush angle short cut also. It could work like this, when you press down the hotkey you could see a little widget that shows the angle your brush is presently at and then this widget could change with any adjustments made. It would also be helpful if it could to be snapped incremental angles. This would be nice and im glad to see other feel the same...
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peter_palava
1 Message
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60 Points
6 y ago
I find it surprising that Chris, being so long winded, in his reasons why a shortcut still has not been implimented after 4 years didnt see it fit to mention this!
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patrick_shannon_7191158
4 Messages
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110 Points
5 y ago
You can rotate the brush angle through the brush dialogue box, but anyone actually using the brush tools in Photoshop will tell you that it would be great if you could do it with a control wheel or keyboard shortcut. Its a no brainer.
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ethan_king_7655439
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60 Points
5 y ago
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ryze_upl8
4 Messages
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310 Points
5 y ago
However, it got me thinking that if I had programming skills, I could map the functionality onto my MIDI DJ controller and possibly assign the knob to brush angle....but no. I'm a designer, not a programmer after all, and though it'd probably be feasible, my time is worth more than the $$ I'd pay to have something that does exactly that for me.
And then, I stumbled upon this piece of gorgeous genius:
http://palettegear.com/photoshop
As per their Nov '15 release notes (http://palettegear.com/release_notes), they've added "Photoshop new functions - Brush roundness and Brush Angle" (CUE: NERDGASM!)
It's not a cheap piece of hardware, nor does it look like it, but having a little dial I can adjust brush angle with on the fly and a slider to control size for EVERY brush I want is about as close as you can get to perfect in the digital paint realm. Plus I can map a few more buttons for undo+redo, AND still have an extra slider for something? SOLD.
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