There's no real toggle for the actual paintbrush tool, except for that hold and release tilde toggle yo mention. BUT, you can try using the B shortcut and the E shortcut to jump between tools. Since I don't have a Cintiq, I'm unsure how you'd set that in it's tools. For my Intuos Pro, I can assign a button, or set up the setting in the tablet driver.   ... View more

Yeah - selections and automation are very rarely compatible. Since there's SO much variety in making selections, Adobe never seems to have bothered to try to give it any power in scripts, or actions... no matter what, it's going to want to ask what you want... ... View more

Creative lady like that - I KNOW she loves to play! 😄 ... View more

Okay - now I understand... The Select Color Range too is not intended to work as you request. It really is about selecting contiguous colors, and there's no good way to make absolute selections - UNLESS the original colors are very distinctly different, in which case, Melissa's suggestion above will work. ... View more

This is pretty fun. Non-stress way to "play!" 🙂   ... View more

Pretty sure this is my favorite so far. 🙂 ... View more

https://lightroom.adobe.com/learn/remix/068e685f-32ad-455f-b72e-922f4a2be948 This is my first Remix in this forum.  ... View more

I'm thinking this may not be a Photoshop setting, but rather, a Mac setting. I just tried what you said, using my iMac to a 2nd monitor, and it worked fine. What OS are you using on the 2017 Macbook pro? Is there a big discrepancy in the screen resolution between the MBP and the 2nd monitor? ... View more

Hi. Have you tried using the Brushes Panel menu to get more brushes?   ... View more

Hi. From what it sounds like, you may be using some rather large files, and the scratch disk is filling up. Do you have a 2nd drive you can connect? If so, you can have Photoshop use that drive for your scratch disk. Scratch disks are hard drive space used to hold parts of an image you're not working on, at a given time, so your RAM can focus on what you ARE working on. Please take a look at https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/system-requirements.html - to ensure your computer is within Photoshop's system requirements. ... View more

Hi. Can you please be more specific about "not working". Does an error come up, or does it just not do anything?  If your issue actually matches any of the previous comments, please add your issue to the "Bugs" section, at the top of this community - or better yet, search for the problem IN the Bug section, and upvote one that exists. The more votes a but note has, the more of a push to get the developers to do something.  ... View more

Hi. May I ask what precise issue the Refine Edge brush is doing? When I went to test this, I realized I'd acidentally been focused on the wrong layer- one that already had a mask, yet the Refine Edge brush worked fine. As it did when I readjusted my focus to the correct layer. But, Decontaminate Colors was OFF, when I was on the wrong layer, and when I switched to the correct, original, unmasked layer, Decontaminate was just fine... ... View more

Photoshop's touch screen support is very general, and not really specific to any particular screen (however, they generally address more common screens, like iPads, Tablets, and Chromebooks, etc.)  From my experience it's likely a setting in your Wacebo device's interface. I think your question would be most quickly and accurately answered by contacting Wacebo, directly. ... View more

I can't speak to #1, but for #2 and #3, you may want to change your Export preferences to JPEG. Then, to so your Save As..., instead choose File>Export>Export As  In that dialog box, you can use your slider, and still see your resulting file size. ... View more

I think for this, your best option is to create an Action (https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/creating-actions.html) Once you've done so, you can use that action individually on any open image, or run it as a Batch Action (https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/processing-batch-files.html), or create a Droplet, so you can drag images to it (https://www.slrlounge.com/photoshop-tips-how-and-why-to-use-droplets/   ... View more

Hi, In your Apple>System Preferences>Keyboard, is the Spanis keyboard installed in the Input Sources area? IF not, you can add it, using the plus sign. Then make sure it's the selected keyboard at the top. ... View more

Hi. Are you using MacOS Monterey? Are you updated to the most recent version? There seems to be a thread that said this was fixed with a MacOS update: https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-bugs/p-photoshop-23-2-2-can-t-open-update-vector-smart-object-in-illustrator/idc-p/12822210/page/3#M51031 ... View more

Is there a way you can log into another account on your computer? Something like a guest account, with none of your usual background processes running? If you can test this problem in that environment, you'd be able to see if any of your background apps are interfering with it. Same with externally connected peripherals. By disconnecting them and testing you can determine if there's a problem being caused by USB (that happens, sometimes). ... View more

The only thing I can think of, that makes that happen is if there's a dialog box popping up UNDER your Photoshop window... Next time it happens, please move the PS window around, and look behind it.  This kind of thing can happen, if you somehow activate the Finder, when switching among applications... ... View more

I am SO SO sorry for the delay. I had lots of business to attend to, and then Adobe MAX. I wonder, did you find an answer?  For me, when I try what you did, it works exactly the same way - but all my measurements remain in px measurements.  The only resolution I found, is to resize each layer down - they DO fit each artboard when I do that, making each artboard have it's own background layer, made to size. It's annoying, but I had to resize each one, individually... Perhaps an option to constrain new layers to fit artboards would be helpful to a lot of people.  May I suggest adding it to the Ideas section at the top of the Photoshop Ecosystem community? ... View more

Hi. This does look odd - but may I ask, how did you add your purple layer? In Artboard, if you click a particular layer, it should come up with the color picker. To add a layer within an artboard, you'd want to focus on the layer portion of the artboard, and then add your layer (which will come up above it, the size of your artboard). So, knowing your steps will help us to determine what went so wonky here... ... View more

The fuzziness slider is supposed to be like the Threshold setting in the Magic Wand, but like it's counterpart, it's difficult to determine the setting that will get what you want. Instead, use the eyedroppers to add to your original selection, or delete from it. So, select one color - then drag around your additional colors using the eyedroppers (OR, use the Shift to add to selection, or Option to delete from the selection). You can even use the tools inside the Preview window. Avoid touching colors that are close to those outside what you want, or you may select way too much. Use Eyedropper to Add to Selection with Select>Color Range  ... View more

On my Wacom tablet, I think I see what you mean... when I touch the tablet with the pen, the icon for the cursor is fixed, even though, with the settings below, I get great response to my tilt as I draw - but the cursor doesn't change. Is that what you mean?  If you're interested in SEEING that cursor change, my best suggestion is to enter your feature request in the Feature request section of the forum (https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem/ct-p/ct-photoshop?page=1&sort=latest_replies&filter=all&lang=all&tabid=ideas). Before posting, do a search to see if someone else made the same request, and if so, upvote it. The more upvotes a request gets, the sooner Adobe gets on implementing it. ... View more

I'm not a Windows user, but I'm wondering if your shortcut is also used by another app, or your OS? So, maybe PS isn't using it at first, until your system recongizes the focus for that shortcut? Not sure I'm wording that well, but perhaps check for other apps using yrou F5 - or maybe try just changing PS's use to something like ctrl+shift+F5 or something?   ... View more