P: Selected a brush but instead it changed to a tool

Wow, really horrible. Can someone please tell me how to do the following:

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

I hate the new update. The brushes are so frustrating to deal with. This update slowed down my workflow big time... so much so I switched back to the previous version. What were you thinking when you did that? Once they actually "solve" this issue, I'll start using the new update. Disappointed in Adobe this round.

Why on earth don't you roll back to the way it worked before and add the new behaviour as an option (by Ctrl + Alt clicking)?!

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.

> 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.

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? 

^^^ 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.

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.

Good Lord I'm glad I'm not the only one wondering what the heck was going on. Why would you make things less intuitive?