P: alt+right click drag resize opacity lock

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.

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. 

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. 

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. 

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.

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.

but if you drag up/down, it changes the opacity, which I'm sure most people don't want to do since they're already using a tablet pen with pressure sensitivity.

I use vertical for hardness and the problem with the movements does not seem to affect all users, anyway. 

Edit: … at least not all the time. 

@c.pfaffenbichlerit's not a setup problem, but a PS feature: the "alt+right click drag" shortcut to resize the brush (dragging left/right)

Everyone who uses PS to paint likes to use this shortcut since it's faster than hitting [[[ a bunch of times to make big changes (in my case professionally, so I get extra annoyed when I keep having to redo the work because I keep stumbling on this issue) - but if you drag up/down, it changes the opacity, which I'm sure most people don't want to do since they're already using a tablet pen with pressure sensitivity.

The thing is, since we're (unfortunately) not robots, it's impossible to drag the pen or mouse in a *PERFECT HORIZONTAL ANGLE*, so we end up getting slight, almost unnoticeable changes in opacity together with the resizing, which basically makes all of us want to throw all Adobe high executives out the window (nothing personal).

Please fix this? It's such a simple stupid thing that gets in the way, and also kind of surprising that a software with so many years of developing still has something as stupid as up/down PLUS left/right drag adjusting combo like this, we don't use a physical ruler to be able to be this accurate.


Solution suggestions:

• let us select which properties this shortcut affects in the Preferences menu - also with the option of "do nothing" (by far the best one)
• locking initial direction when using the shortcut - if I start dragging right/left it will ONLY affect brush size, even if I drag up/down during

• locking opacity changes in the toolbar (universal)
• locking opacity changes in the brush settings (although it would be annoying to do this with every brush - still better than nothing)

@khellstr , what are you talking about? 

Could you please post screenshots with the pertinent Panels (Toolbar, Layers, Options Bar, …) visible? 

How exactly did you create the Layer? 

This will never be a task they prioritize I fear, we need to hope for an employee on that team to basically get to this on their own time. 😕😕
Dunno if there is some photoshop community where we could get a survey or petition going? Until we can show there are many of us affected by this it could be hard to get things moving.