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Sergey Kritskiy
Inspiring
March 4, 2010
Question

brush opacity for scripting

  • March 4, 2010
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Hi everyone!

I want to change opacity of brush relatively, similar to what Photoshop have for brush size, so I could just increase/ decrease opacity.

Script listener doesn't 'hear' changes in brush opacity so I wonder if there is a way somehow to accomplish this.

Thanks!

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Reynolds__Mark_
Reynolds__Mark_
Inspiring
March 11, 2010

Brush Opacity can be very easily controlled with the scrubby sliders (permanently visible in the Options Bar whilst using the Brush tool). Alt dragging these and Shift dragging them decreases and increases their rate. No Script based approach could be more efficient than this.

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Michael_L_Hale
Inspiring
March 11, 2010

Reynolds (Mark) wrote:

No Script based approach could be more efficient than this.

That is true IF setting the opacity is the only thing the script does. But as part of a more complex script it would be useful to be able to control tool options like opacity.

The main purpose of a script is to automate some workflow in Photoshop. Not having full access to the save features as the GUI limits what can be done.

It's clear from your post that you don't find scripting useful. Why are you in the scripting forum if you do not think script are worthwhile?

    Reynolds__Mark_
    Reynolds__Mark_
    Inspiring
    March 11, 2010
    That is true IF setting the opacity is the only thing the script does.

    Thats what's been asked, as far as I'm aware.

    It's clear from your post that you don't find scripting useful. Why are
    you in the scripting forum if you do not think script are worthwhile?

    Nonsense, at no point have I ever said that Scripting is not useful.  Just 95% of the time - there are much better, less involved solutions.

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    Michael_L_Hale
    Inspiring
    March 4, 2010

    The only way I know to control brush settings like opacity with scripting is by using tool presets.

    You can control some settings of a computed brush with a script such as diameter, hardness, angle, roundness, and spacing. But even those settings can not be set if the brush is a sampled brush.

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    Sergey KritskiyAuthor
    Inspiring
    March 4, 2010

    Oh thanks Michael, that's sad to know

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