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Hi Alexia. I have just tried this with current release and beta versions, and it is working as it should. I can only think that something has broken in your situation, and much as I hate to go straight in with a reset Preferences suggestion, I can't think what else could cause the behaviour you are seeing. You could maybe try resetting the tool rather than Preferences as a first try.
I take it you can see the size in the Recent presets strip as well as the Option bar?
I thought about this some more. AFAICT if the preset has a size in the Brush panel then it will work the way you want it to.
If no size is shown, as in the presets I highlighted below, then if you resize them, select another brush, and select the first brush from Recent brushes, its gone back to it's original size. Give that a try. It's late here and I am out of time, but that's the way it seems to work.
Did you try what I said about presets that have a size against them in the panel, as opposed to presets that dont?
Your screen shot looked to be showing the General group presets, and they don't sizes. Try test with presets that do have sizes against them.
If you want to use those general presets in the way you describe, try re-saving them as new presets with Capture Size checked.
Make a new group with all of your custom presets, and export it out to a .abr file to keep it for other versions.
BTW, I just tested my workaround, and it works
Hi Trevor,
As you can see, as per your suggestion, I made three new brush presets with size captured in their tool settings (once again, this does not fix any of my problems, but moving on for now...).
I've found out something very absurd. After I use a brush that I selected from Brushes, D in this example, and use it, it goes to the top of of my Recents bar as you would expect. If I continue selecting from Brushes, everything behaves normally.
However, when I go to Brush Settings to switch to E or F (etc.) after using D, E and F change to their preset sizes, but their settings are replaced with D'S. They look and behave completely unlike they are supposed to. This is also the case when I select them fromthe Recents bar.
I have a hunch that this is related to the problem of the Recents Strip in general not remembering the size of a brush during the last state it was used in.
Up until recently, whenever I switched from one brush to another using the 'recent brushes' box within the 'Brushes' panel, the brush I switched to maintained the size at which I was last using it. Now, whenever I pick a recent brush, it converts to the size of the brush I just used. I have to keep resizing my brushes every time I switch back and forth. This is slowing down my workflow and it's driving me nuts. This is a huge issue for me as an illustrator.
As an example: let's say I am using Brush A at 10 px, and I switch to the previously used Brush B, which I was using at 50 px. Picking Brush B from within the 'recents' strip resizes B's tip automatically to 50 px (the size I was using it at before using A). This is what used to happen, and it is also exactly what I want.
Currently, the strip (misleadingly) still visually reflects the size that each recent brush was at before switching to the current one. However, now when I switch from A to B, it remains the same size. As in, when I switch from A to B, B's new size is 10 px instead of 50. Same as A. Because of this, whenever I switch between different recent brushes I have to resize them manually Every. Single. Time.
A and B are different brushes; I'm using them for different purposes. There is a reason why I want B to be 50 px when I switch back to it. What is the point of the recent brushes strip if the size of the current brush carries over to the one I want to switch back to? What happened to this simple and extremely useful feature?
I already tried resetting the brush tool several times now to no effect. I do not want to simply make a new brush preset with "capture brush size in preset" checked off. That would not fix my problem. I would STILL have to keep resizing that brush manually every time that I want it to be a size other than the preset one. I tried resetting the tool already.. I reset all my preferences several times. There is no difference between when I select a brush from the Brushes panel, or the brush tool options bar drop down menu. PLEASE do not suggest that I make new brushes with their sizes captured in their presets. That does not fix my problem. That just creates the same problem through different means.
Selecting my brushes from the 'Brush Settings' panel is also not a viable solution for multiple reasons. For one, if I do so, the brushes revert to the default size in their settings. I still have to keep resizing them.
I already went so far as to completely uninstall and reinstall Photoshop.
I’m attaching a diagram of the A vs B example.
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