On The Fly Precise Brush Sizing

[4DragonsMedia]

So maybe everyone knows this but in every tutorial i've ever seen, they all talk about right-clicking the mouse and using the slider to size your brush as being the 'quick' method of accessing brush size if you are using a mouse.

The way that I do it is to press and hold the ALT key and then press and hold the RIGHT mouse button and drag the mouse left and right to re-size my brush. If you use Paint Shop Pro it works the same when you press and hold the ALT key and press and hold/drag the LEFT mouse button.

Cheers,


4D.

[Steve]

Wow that's cool, thanks.

[$1r_M4x1mu$]

So maybe everyone knows this but in every tutorial i've ever seen, they all talk about right-clicking the mouse and using the slider to size your brush as being the 'quick' method of accessing brush size if you are using a mouse.

That's right that's one of those very useful tricks.
I've been working this way for a very long time. "also works whit pen tablets"

[iDad]

on a mac all you have to do is push [ ] keys for increasing size or decreasing size on the fly

[4DragonsMedia]

on a mac all you have to do is push [ ] keys for increasing size or decreasing size on the fly

That also works on PC, but it is not as precise. Mine jumps like 25 pts for every push.

[iDad]

hm thats strange mine goes i think 1 pix

[iDad]

hmmm just tried it, at 10 px it drops by 1 above 10 lets say 25, it drops by 5 never noticed that before, I usually keep the brushes fairly small though

[SeniorS]

Is that only for PS5? Pressing ALT gives eyedrop tool for me and no brush size after mouse presing. What do i do wrong?

[TerryC]

What do i do wrong?

First off you woke up this morning.

Yes, this only works with the "CS" family, so Version 7 & 8 no worky.

[SeniorS]

LoL...right, i should woke at noon.

Then must been something else, i have CS3. And Stamp tool + ALT is for stamping "example" and still not brush size too.