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

Forum|Forum|14 years ago
October 18, 2011
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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.

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CorneliaYoder

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This does NOT work for me. All it does is change the brush size.

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FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor

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I've already voted and they won't let me vote again. (frowny face<G>) I use a lot of brushes that really need to be rotated often, and Dynamic brushes, which are terrific, are not the solution for every time I want to rotate a brush. Right-clicking, twirling a widget, hovering to see the effect, dismissing the modal popup, all that interferes with a pleasant experience. It's bad enough that PS still doesn't actually preview the effect when we hover and before we use the brush (it can do that for Clone Stamp and Affinity always does that), but they have made a simple rotation of brush tip rather more complicated than easy. All built into using Brush settings or the widget, not just doing it.

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Mike-K.

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It's something they can do easilly and would be great for users, share this request and maybe it will be done 🙂

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CorneliaYoder

Known Participant

Just adding my voice to this request. Rotating the entire canvas is a poor workaround. If you can do this for the clone stamp, you can do it for brushes. PLEASE!!!!!!!!!

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jugenjury

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In response to your second paragraph, that is all possible via JavaScript. I have mine set up this way for lighter/darker. I haven't done the rest but it is certainly possible. One script file for each of the functions you want to do then assign a shortcut key to run each of those script files. The catch, though, is that you have to hit the key combination once for each increment you want to do so if you set your increments to, say, a value of 1 unit and you want to add 50 units, you'd have to tap that key combination 50 times. Holding the key combination doesn't allow for repeating to get around this like it does for brush sizing/softness.

I've not been able to find a way to rotate the brush via JavaScript yet, though.