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Inspiring
October 18, 2011
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P: Rotate Brush Tip 'On the fly' (Keyboard shortcut, Mouse-wheel or Click + Drag)

  • October 18, 2011
  • 143 replies
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This may seem wild, but many ideas might've seem that way when first introduced, so bare with me as I believe it would be rather sexy addition to using brushes in Photoshop.

Imagine you choose a brush tip and are ready to use it in your art. But it's not quite right and you could use the Brush Tip to rotate few degrees. So you go to your Brush Palate and Brush Tip Shape Palate and manually rotate the wheel in that Dialog Box or type the number of degrees in a Angle Box(°).
Then you go back to your art and continue using the newly set up brush. Until - you need to adjust the rotation of the Tip again, and again... you get the point.

Wouldn't it be fantastic if we can rotate the Brush Tip 'on the fly' without having to go to the brush palate over and over again, just like we can now change it's size and softness?

Perhaps Left Bracket and Right Bracket would rotate the brush Tip CCW and CW by a 1° (by 10° with Shift) or in increments you set up in Preferences?
Wouldn't that be something?
I am aware of similar function can be achieved using the Pen Tool. This idea however would be available for both, Pen and Mouse and for all Tools using Brush Tip, including Stamp (Clone) Tool.
If this is already possible and I was living in the dark, please enlighten me.

143 replies

Participating Frequently
October 19, 2011
Not for me. I've got a Wacom but for work I do falls way short. Used to be I could go and select brush sizes, then bring my cursor down to workspace and use scroll wheel to set exact brush size I wanted (+/- 1 pix), but for some reason I can't do that now. Why?
Inspiring
October 19, 2011
Your scroll wheel isn't an absolute value control - just relative (up, down).

For rotation, you really want something like a Wacom Art Pen -- and that's already available.
Participating Frequently
October 19, 2011
What I'd like to see is the brush tip controlled from the scroll wheel of my logitech - For those of you also wanting to change angles (it's the sizing that I'd presently want to be able to control with the wheel) leaning the wheel over one way or the other should also be available in preferences. Then you could really fly.