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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
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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

Admired_yogi157F
Known Participant
March 23, 2016
Yes, please post a link to the Wacom forum post.
Participating Frequently
March 23, 2016
Thanks for the clarification Chris. Can you link please the post with your suggestion on the wacom forum? I would like to leave a comment as well to show that someone else wants this feature too.
StrongBeaver
Legend
March 23, 2016
Cristian, more or less, yes to answer your question regarding added this at a driver level, or expose something so with a little work the user could have this functionality within Photoshop. 

I have made a suggestion, hope and wait !
Participating Frequently
March 21, 2016
Christopher, this basically means that wacom could implement the rotation at a driver level or something? Would be awesome to use the touch ring of my intuous 5 to rotate the brush.. It would feel pretty natural doing it like this.
So maybe we are barking at the wrong tree here... Have you tried to suggest this to wacom on their forum?
StrongBeaver
Legend
January 30, 2016
Is it safe to assume that Tablet events which are written to drivers to communicate with the hardware though the OS, essentially making tablet events, just OS events ?
Inspiring
January 30, 2016
yes.
StrongBeaver
Legend
January 30, 2016
Tablet events come from the hardware via drivers as well, correct ?
StrongBeaver
Legend
January 30, 2016
Ah, I follow ! 🙂
Inspiring
January 30, 2016
No, OS events have to come from drivers or the OS.
StrongBeaver
Legend
January 29, 2016
I understand; are there any methods to which it can be done with scripting identical to the method the company used to get their hardware to communicate with the rotate brush tool in Photoshop ?