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January 19, 2016
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P: alt+right click drag resize opacity lock

  • January 19, 2016
  • 79 replies
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Would be great to have an option that will lock opacity when resizing my brush with alt+right click drag, There is one for brush hardness, but never found one for opacity!

79 replies

Participant
May 31, 2022

ya its all about the opacity you must adjust it. was facing issue while designing this logo with opacity adjustment.

c.pfaffenbichler
Community Expert
Community Expert
May 31, 2022

»Are you here to help or annoy users? You have "quite an attitude"«

@khellstr , are you addressing me? (In Feature Requests that is not displayed directly.)

If so: Have you ever tried unfollowing a six year old thread? 

khellstr
Known Participant
May 31, 2022

...and I have been using Photoshop more than 20 years, so I have been well aweare of the things that have been suggested here for a long time. 

khellstr
Known Participant
May 31, 2022

Are you here to help or annoy users? You have "quite an attitude" 
If first, maybe time to move on then.... 

The problem exist and is has got more attention latyle (here). There can be many reasons for it to get "only" 27 votes in 6 years. For example, it is quite hard to find with google. And maybe a lot of people aren't just using this short cut feature much to resize brush 

I just hope this simple thing could be fixed as it should be quite straight forward. I don't want to hear multiple time same "good" advices how to circumvent this.

Participating Frequently
May 31, 2022

It's hard to get upvotes on this site, most of the people who encounter this problem will probably just curse at it and not look it up or directly ask for new features. It took over 4 years of commenting on a similar thread for a spring-loaded tool issue, but we eventually got an employee to kindly make a fix for us. 🙂
The key is to make the thread known to other illustrators, it is all about finding the right avenues of communication.

khellstr
Known Participant
May 31, 2022

Most of the brushes (I use) don't have Hardness setting, so the Opacity is changed. 
And i would also like to keep my hardness as it is. 

IRC This is not firts time you came to give your same advices that doesn't help to this exactproblem. I can't read whole thread now, but I think all those cases are allready dealt in this thread. 

khellstr
Known Participant
May 31, 2022

I'm talking about that the opacity doesn't stay in 100% when using  CTRL+ALT+ RM drag to resize the brush. 

The image shows the result what happens when you paint 99% opacity. The surface that should be flat is mottled.
And only way to fix this is hand paint over evryhing, as all the other filling methods take accaount that opacity and you just can't get rid of it easily. 

This all is quite obivious if you read the whole thread. 

c.pfaffenbichler
Community Expert
Community Expert
May 31, 2022

Well, you made your case and you are apparently not allone with your irritation. 

But 27 votes in 6 years (not sure if the request carried over from feedback.photoshop.com) does not seem encouraging. 

Participant
May 31, 2022

This ^, plus if the brush doesn't have a hardness option (basically if you're not using the standard PS round brush) the alt+RCdrag shortcut will default back to changing opacity.

Participating Frequently
May 31, 2022

But varying hardness instead of opacity can be even more vicious or hard to fix. If you are trying to have sharp, opaque shapes, finding out you've made a bunch of blurry ones because you changed the hardness is a lot more of a pain to repaint than a correct shape with the wrong opacity.
I tried it but it was even more disruptive to my work.