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

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

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.

[Incredible_daydream1587]

What I'd like to see is the brush tip controlled from the scroll wheel of my logitech - For those of you also wanting to change angles (it's the sizing that I'd presently want to be able to control with the wheel) leaning the wheel over one way or the other should also be available in preferences. Then you could really fly.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Your scroll wheel isn't an absolute value control - just relative (up, down).

For rotation, you really want something like a Wacom Art Pen -- and that's already available.

[Incredible_daydream1587]

Not for me. I've got a Wacom but for work I do falls way short. Used to be I could go and select brush sizes, then bring my cursor down to workspace and use scroll wheel to set exact brush size I wanted (+/- 1 pix), but for some reason I can't do that now. Why?

[PECourtejoie]

Jean-Pierre, Bonjour! The shortcut for brush resizing in CS5 is: alt+right click+drag on windows, ctrl+option+drag on mac left-right for size, up down for hardness.

[Incredible_daydream1587]

salut PE, merci pour ton renseignment. This will work for me.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Chris, like it or not, there are many people using mouse while working in Photoshop.

[Guest]

Photoshop needs a better way to rotate brushes! Why can't we rotate brushes by holding down a hotkey and click-dragging with the left or right mouse button? I can't be the only person who's thought of this.

Rotating brushes using the widget in the brushes panel is archaic and a major impediment to my workflow.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

When resizing and changing hardness the brush, i mean holding alt and right click button we can rotate the brush with mouse wheel same time.

[Guest]

Wait pHeR-d, is that a suggestion for Adobe? or are you saying that's a way we can rotate brushes now? because I just tried it and it's not doing anything

[Incredible_daydream1587]

salut PE, getting back to this...now that I've given it a bit of a trial, as it turns out this does work but is not very practical nor is it very precise for some instances in the work that I do. If there was some way to control resize with the scroll wheel once the resize brush has been selected (as in some previous versions of PS) then that would be optimal...less entropy. thanks again, cheers

[macamator]

Everyone loves the ease of bracket up or down to change brush size right? How bout the same thing for changing the angle of the brush? (For it to be really useful, the brush ghost preview needs to rotate too ) This could allow for quick decal like dropping of shapes, as well as quick adjustments to calligraphy brushes without any visits to the menus and windows.

While we're on the subject; keyboard commands to brighten or darken the current color, add or remove red, add or remove blue, add or remove green, increase saturation, decrease saturation all to the current color would be a great option under the hood of PS. Thanks for listening!

[sharkcellar]

Oh, man brush rotate key commands would rock so much! It would be very nice to program them into a slider on a wacom tablet or a peripheral like the Griffin Powermate. If you use PS to paint in, you understand how monumental this would be. When Adobe introduced the rotate page feature, that was like manna from heaven, this would be equally monumental and appreciated. Their implementation of the color wheel "shortcut" is a total cockup, but that's another story...

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

I don't even see brush tip! Where is it?

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

If you're using a pen tablet (that supports tilt) to draw, there's a workaround you can use. In the "Shape Dynamics" options inside of the brush settings, change your Angle Jitter Control to "Pen Tilt". This will change the rotation of the brush based on the angle in which you hold your pen. 🙂

[sharkcellar]

Nick, the results of that method are unsatisfactory, as you end up having to hold the pen at goofy angles to draw. It becomes a situation of the software controlling you instead of you controlling the software. Thanks though.

[Incredible_daydream1587]

still no brush size adjustment/control on mouse wheel - Xmas perhaps?...YEARS LATER AND NO NOTICE

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

-go to 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(°)
set your Angle, for example 90°

-go to Brush Presets and save your brush without capture brush size in preset

-repeat with different Angle (90°,65°,45°,25°,0°,-25°,-45°,-65°,-90°)


-now you can use < and > to change that brush

-if you have two or more brushes you can use "tool presets" with 0° as the default

I hope this can help

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

-go to 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(°)
set your Angle, for example 90°

-go to Brush Presets and save your brush without capture brush size in preset

-repeat with different Angle (90°,65°,45°,25°,0°,-25°,-45°,-65°,-90°)


-now you can use , and . to change that brush

-if you have two or more brushes you can use "tool presets" with 0° as the default

I hope this can help

[Incredible_daydream1587]

still no brush SIZE adjustment/control on mouse wheel while cursor is on workspace (not anywhere in the menu or some sidebar) - Xmas perhaps?

[Incredible_daydream1587]

might help someone else who uses brush angles

[mr_synyster]

I want to rotate my brush with my Wacom Intuos5 ring. To do that, I need to be able to use keystrokes to change the rotation angle of the brush. Looking in Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts > Tools we have "Brush Hardness" and "Brush Size"* but no option for "Brush Angle". Huge bonus points for adding keyboard controls for "Brush Roundness", too, but that's not as important to me.

Thanks!

*these are handled well by Wacom

I'm using Photoshop CC 14.1.2 x64 (Windows)

[StrongBeaver]

I made the same request, lets hope Adobe listens !

[StrongBeaver]

Rotate a brush with a keyboard short-cut or a combination of mouse and keyboard shortcut.

[Incredible_daydream1587]

Wow, someone else who gets it. I'm surprised that no one else has clued on to this technique and just how time saving it is. We need more 'stars' to be noted...other our request is just a black hole. This has been 2 years since my original and still waiting. I don't know why, because my previous copy of PS in CS2 allowed me to do so with just a cheap mouse. Strange...I was thinking about this today...wondering if it might have something to do with my much higher end Logitech. The short cuts recommended as you posted above are to me not short cuts at all. Does anybody over there ever read any of these?

[sharkcellar]

Thanks! I hope so. This would be a fantastic addition to brush functionality.