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Changing brush size shortcuts(Ctrl+alt +second click and drag)

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March 4, 2017
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Hello, is where any way to change brush size/hardness shortcut (CTRL + ATL + second mouse button drag) to something else? It is extremely uncomfortable while using a graphic tablet. Sadly can't find anything similar in Keyboard shortcut menu.

Correct answer davescm

Can you not just use :

[ ] to decrease/increase size

{ } to decrease /increase brush hardness

Dave

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sambroadleaf

Inspiring

It's been years and they are still incapable of grasping why people demand the remap of those hardcoded shortcuts. As usual adobe devs have no idea about the real world use cases of their products.

jane-e

Community Expert

I don't find that to be true at all about the Photoshop developers. If you want to tell them, though, the best place is:

https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family

As users on this forum, we can only answer questions and help find solutions.

~ Jane

JJMack

Community Expert

If you get yourself a gaming mouse you can set the mouse wheel sideways buttons to [] and to {} with mouse g-shift

JJMack

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Ola Belin

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Hey, I know this is an old thread, but I thought I could update, as I found a solution that worked for me. In case anyone else stumbles in here.

I'm mostly a Mac and iPad user, and I've just started using Photoshop on Windows and am going crazy by the CTRL+ALT+RIGHT BUTTON resizing, as I'm used to only having to use only the keyboard. And I don't want to bind my pen buttons.

My solution was to use my Logitech G110 gaming keyboard which comes with lots of customizable keys, and bind my G12 button to CTRL+ALT+RIGHT BUTTON. That way I only have to press one key and move the mouse / pen to change brush size!

While I was at it I bound the G11 key to SHIFT+ALT+RIGHT CLICK to have only one key plus pen to quick change colors.

If you don't have a Logitech keyboard I noticed that Microsoft has a way to rebind keys. Not sure if this will work with mouse clicks as well, but could be worth a try. Otherwise I'm sure there are software you can get that does this with any keyboard.

Logitech G110 on Amazon:

https://amzn.to/36IhSqe

Microsofts software solution:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4052277/accessories-how-do-i-reassign-hot-keys-for-my-keyboard

A third alternative I Googled for you:

https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/map-any-key-to-any-key-on-windows-xp-vista/

molikos

Participant

Guys,

I see on youtube guys are having current values of size/hardenss of brush while doing the adjustment.

How can I turn it on?

I work on PS CS5.

Will be gratefull for help.

Regards,

Marcin

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MrMoxo

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Hello,

If you use a wacom tablet you can change the right click button to ALT+ right click in the stylus tab in the wacom properties menu :

Keyboard > modifiers.... Unfortunately you'll lose the possibility to just right click with that button.

Matthieu.

Aleksei_Segodin

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matthieug43873433, the best solution!

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thomask77170484

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Hi

thx for the solution!

I changed my wacom pen to that, but that only works till the pen hits the tablet, at this point i have a "left click" !!!

ideas?

davescm

Correct answer

Community Expert

Can you not just use :

[ ] to decrease/increase size

{ } to decrease /increase brush hardness

Dave

eligijusk36286930Author

Participant

Well, it is biggest let down in humans history. Using [ ] or { } is not intuitive and slow, it greatly disrupts my workflow. Let's hope I can find a way to bypass this using some sort of macro/script if not I would have to give up on using photoshop.

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Alexander Fetisov

Participant

In addition to changing the brush size by typing/dragging in the brushes panel, you have two different shortcuts styles to pick from:
Ctrl + Alt + drag
[ ]

BarbBinder

How do I set up the CTRL + ALT + DRAG?

If I do that, then it duplicates the layer I'm using...

I would really love to use just just "ctrl alt drag" instead of my current CTRL + ALT + RIGHT CLICK + DRAG

ctrl+alt+drag is already reserved for creating copies of the things you're dragging.

So if you want you can use Alt+D+Drag shortcut for Brush resize or any other shortcut. I use alt+d myself.

There's a program called AHK which lets you remap your keyboard to your liking.

Install it, create a text file and copy-paste this code below.

#IfWinActive ahk_class Photoshop
!d::
Send {alt down}{Click,down,right}
KeyWait d
Send {alt up}{Click,up,right}
return

Change extension of your text file to .ahk

Double click your file to run it.

Now you can resize your brush by holding alt+d and dragging your mouse/pen.

The first line makes this script work only in Photoshop.

!d means Alt+d. For instance ^d would mean ctrl+d.

You can make an exe file out of your script and run it with windows start up. Ahk to exe compiler is in the ahk's installation folder.

Hope it helps!

PS

I think people who made Photoshop were not thinking that it could be used for painting or drawing. While painting I have to create and merge down like 100 layers and every time I have to use this terrible Ctrl+alt+shift+n combination which is impossible to hit with one hand and you can't change it to something simpler for God knows why. I use ahk to change it to ctrl+n

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