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

I understand that you feel like you have to prioritize the most requested features, Chris, but I hope you also understand why people who use PS as a drawing and painting tool are frustrated. In the past, you've added features to PS that cater to us, like the erodible tips, bristle brushes, mixer brush, etc., and used it as a way to get us to buy your software. It makes us feel a little bit cheated when you give us the impression that PS is meant for us too, with features that have sadly ended up being a bit gimmicky with limited use, and we invest our time into getting proficient with your software, but the lion's share of the new features you add are aimed at other types of work.

My favorite improvement when I upgraded from CS5 to CC was actually the subtle improvement to how the brush tool handles and responds to pen pressure. It was a small change, but it made it feel more comfortable to draw, and it is a good example of a change that we've needed, but we didn't necessarily ask for or know that we wanted. So disregarding features that aren't highly requested is not necessarily the best way to go about it.

You're probably aware of it, but I feel I should remind you that it's not the PS development team's job to work off a list of most requested features, but rather understand what kind of changes are genuinely useful to your users and prioritize accordingly. Most users will probably want to request new and fancy tools, but it's often not the most important improvement to them. They just don't know that.

As for the comparison between content aware fill and adding easier brush rotation, it might be true that content aware fill is much more requested, but I'm willing to bet it also required quite a bit more work than this feature does.

Sorry, but either you or I are missing something, because I have my old CS2 copy here and it allowed me to do that...so why is that feature lost to you?....I noticed its loss immediately upon first use of my CS5 Extd version. Maybe it's hidden in my new version and no one will tell me where the 'switch' is...

Yes, it is (especially since Photoshop CS2 had no such feature). We have a lot of requests on our backlog. We have to prioritize. Worse, as time goes on, we get more requests, and more bugs to fix, and more OS issues to work around or implement. You filed the request, and voted for the request. Now you need to wait for us to get to it.

3 years waiting for something that I actually had with my PS version in CS2?...that's reasonable??? c'mon

Clearly, you are not paying attention.
Photoshop has millions of customers, with thousands of feature requests that we need to prioritize. Just because we don't implement your favorite feature instantly does not mean that we are not paying attention - it just means that we're busy doing other things that are needed.

Actually, Content Aware fill was requested a LOT, and improvements to it were requested a LOT. (probably 1000:1 versus this request)

Glad to see that this thread is still active, though I'm disappointed that Adobe has yet to implement. It's even more infuriating because when they do implement it it will be in CC and I have CS6.

I love that I keep getting updates to this post... angry digital artists are my people! Clearly Adobe doesn't read this/doesn't care. When it comes to revisions to their products, if they can't scream to the heavens some "kick-a**" feature that sounds super-techy and bleeding edge they don't do it. "Content aware fill"? Who was begging for that? Sorta neat under very constrained conditions, but I never use it. "Keyboard Assignable Brush Rotate" on the other hand would be very useful, yet doesn't sound very sexy. And thus we all go back to our desks and do it the way we have been. Sigh...

just to reiterate: I WISH ADOBE WOULD WAKE UP. WHAT'S THE HOLD-UP ON HAVING BRUSH SIZE ADJUSTMENTS ON THE SCOLL- WHEeL OF the MOUSE? IS THAT SO DIFFICULT A CONCEPT? Three (3!!!) years and counting now and not a spark of light from the Adobe shadows.
It would be a valuable tool to have since often I have to resize the brush to a specific size on the image and this can ONLY be achieved by hOlding the brush tool in position while resizing....THINK Y'ALL HAVE THE CONCEPT NOW...THINK YOU CAN DO SOMETHING SMART ABOUT THIS? LET'S SEE RESULTS ON THESE ISSUES PLEASE.

@NOel: using R doesn't work with the Intuos5 ring. If there were a proper keyboard shortcut - 3+ years and still waiting - we could assign it to the ring on the tablet and not have to interrupt our drawing while we change the angle. This would be especially useful when trying to airbrush at an angle around curves, for example.

just use the short cut rotate canvass press R paint press R paint easy