P: Rotate Brush Tip 'On the fly' (Keyboard shortcut, Mouse-wheel or Click + Drag)

3 year for a hot key for color picker , how long we can get a hot key for rotating brush,,,,,,,,,,, this time, ,,, ..... :DDD

Very useful feature!

Ability to assign hot keys for rotating brush

Now we are on CC2014, no "rotate-brush" hotkey in sight....Come on Adobe, this is really an essential feature for digital artists!

You might want to read "The Mythical Man Month" -- larger teams tend to slow things down, not speed them up (and this has been proven many times). We do divide work among subteams who target different areas and customer segments -- but there are too many customer segments for Photoshop to possibly assign a team per segment. We do what we can, but we aren't going to have something for everyone in every release. And just because one particular feature is your favorite, does not mean that it is highest in priority when compared against every other feature request from every other customer segment.

Again, you have registered your request and votes - now you need to wait until we have a chance to address your request.

no good for what I need.

You probably read a lot of posts on these forums where people seem upset and frustrated with you, and I understand how that can skew your view of our posts toward having the impression we're throwing a temper tantrum, but please don't assume that we are. I can only speak for myself, but I was only trying to bring up points I think are valid as calmly and well-articulated as I'm able to. I'm not sure how I can better convey that with text alone.

Also, to be fair, it has been years since this feature was requested, so I don't think it's entirely fair to accuse us of being impatient and expecting things to happen straight away.

If your to-do lists are long enough to take years to get through, maybe you ought to look into increasing the size of your development team? Maybe even assign different software engineers to each specific user group? This way everyone will see improvements to the tools they use, and you avoid having some user groups feeling left out. I realize this is easier said than done, but if we were to avoid suggesting things that are easier said than done, I imagine the whole feature request section of the forum would be empty. 🙂

We add features for many different users all the time. But we aren't always going to add your current favorite feature immediately -- we can't, because we have too many different types of users and way too many requests. (honestly, my personal TODO list for Photoshop is over 30 pages, and growing)

You've made the request, you've voted for it -- good. The more people who vote for a feature request, the more often we hear a request from different sources, or the more people who provide good explanations for why they need it - the higher priority it will get And yes, we try to know how our users work and weight the requests and needs of all our users accordingly (which isn't easy when you have millions of users and thousands of requests, plus bugs, OS changes, hardware changes, etc. to deal with every release). Product management wants lists, and they work from lists. The engineers prefer to work with customers, and try to keep the lists reasonable.

But throwing a fit and proclaiming "they obviously don't love us anymore" when you don't get your favorite feature immediately and other users get new features is really childish. Also, it detracts from the apparent validity of the request (it isn't easy to take those requesters seriously - and all caps and misspellings kinda don't help either). Plus, trying to tell professional engineers how easy something must be... doesn't help your case. That ranks right there with armchair quarterbacks and the guys who said "go to moon, pick up rock, how hard could that be?".

No, I did not work on content aware fill - but I know how much that functionality was requested by many different customer segments. And I know how fun the image processing and math is to make it work, much less make it work in a reasonable amount of time. I'm glad we finally got that feature in and are continuing to make improvements on it. And I'm seeing it used by an awful lot of customers in different market segments.

Every release, we get in a lot of customer requested features, plus a lot of little JDI features, and a ton of bug fixes (plus OS and hardware compatibility stuff that isn't always obvious). But we can't do everything instantly. And we can't get something for every customer segment every time (even if we could identify all the unique customer segments). We have to prioritize, we have to figure out what we can do in the available time that will help the most users. Unfortunately, that won't always be your feature request. But your request is there, and we will try to get to it. Don't get impatient, just get more votes and good explanations about why the feature is needed (especially what real problem it will solve, or how it can help you work better or faster). And especially don't throw a temper tantrum when a new release don't include your feature -- we just haven't gotten to it yet.

Nailed it, Yngvar!

Chris,

I think I hit a nerve by using "Content Aware Fill" as an example. I am sorry if that was something you worked on specifically. I was just trying to illustrate my point. I could have chosen a host of other neat but less useful features that have been rolled out over the years.

I am going to hazard a guess from your post, that you are frustrated at users of the software moaning and groaning on about their meager concerns, and disparaging Adobe on this site and others, when we don't have a clue how complex and difficult your job is. I get that... You guys make great software that we all need to do our jobs and that is rarely said... so let me say it now: "Photoshop is AWESOME! and thank you for making it so!"

But I very much agree with what Yngvar is saying above. Users of the app have a hard time understanding how making small improvements to the app isn't seen as easy, low-hanging fruit, that could help everyday users. As opposed to making whole new features that few even had the imagination to know they wanted.

I really loved Snow Leopard (10.6) on Mac because Apple said "no new features" and just improved what was already there. I've dreamed that Adobe might try a similar approach. Making the brush rotation a hot-key is not really a new feature as much as an improvement to what is already there.