P: Use brush as an eraser (german)

wanted to add an Information. German Keyboard. MacOS. I can use the "Brush Toggle Erase"-shortcut. But only when asigning it to any other key than "<". The "<"-key, is assigned to "first brush". When I unassign the "first brush" in the KBSC, it is still assigned. Even when i assign any other key for "first brush", it is still assigned to the "<"-key. 

When assigning the "Brush Toggle Erase" to the "<"-key, u can erase with your brush, but when letting go of the "<"-key, it goes to first brush. Always. 

A pitty, because the "<"-key is right, where you have your left hand when painting in PS. But this key is hardcoded to "first brush". But still a big upgrade to be able to erase with your brush

Hello,

I made a plugin that targets this very issue, @PECourtejoie mentioned it in a comment earlier, except the name has been changed to KeyFlow. The Windows version has been released in the creative cloud marketplace and a version for MacOS is 70% complete.

I'm giving it out for free this week to 10 people from this community. Just send me a DM

Cheers

Good news is this works, bad news is when you release the hotkey to go back to normal paint mode, the brush changes to another brush (possibly the "first" or "last" brush). Super annoying.

@chad.rolfs 
Ok... I have to correct myself.
There is an effect, when I use a brush... since I often use the pen, there was no effect, so...
It is only working with the brush 😞

@chad.rolfs 
This would be indeed great news, if this would work.
unfortunately, at my machine I only can apply a shortcut ... however, when I press the key, nothing happens. 😞
I have Windows 10 and just updated PS to 24.4.1 ...
Absolutely not effect when pressing the assigned key.

Wonderful, thank you for championing this, @chad.rolfs !

Great NEWS!  With the latest release, 24.4, we have exposed this feature to apply a custom KBSC so you can use it with a non-Engish keyboard/OS. 

Good news indeed! 

How about allowing the setting of keyboard shortcuts to select Whites, Neutrals and Blacks in the Selective Colors Adjustment? (Since the default shortcuts have been removed a while back.) 

This is some great news indeed, thanks for looking into this.

But I just realized this nice little feature only works with the brush tool and not with the pencil tool.

Pleaaase add this keyboard toggle for the pencil tool, too.

It was the actual reason I was looking forward to this update and I think it makes a lot of sense to expose it for the pencil.

Hi, for Windows users, there is a promising Plugin, Master Keys that targets this very issue (incredible that someone has to write a plugin to work around the lack of an entry for a given funtion in the keyboard shortcut editor...)

https://edgidesign.com/portfolio/master-keys-for-photoshop/