Anyway to get the airbrush size options to display like it used to in PS 5 where all the brush sizes were displayed graphically in a window? This new popup menu with numerical slider in CS really sucks. I used to be able to change brush size with one click, now I have go in a popup menu and fiddle with a numeric slider with no visual reference everytime I want to change brush size. Crap.
Am I the only one who thinks this is a crappy way to do this and much less useful than before?
I looked in the preferences and didn’t find any options for tool display and such.
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clicking on the value brings up the slider…but yes, its not as easy as before…i hate the way you can invoke the flyout menu with a control click, but cant get rid of it without painting or touching the keyboard.
i’ve been using one for over a decade Ann, i can paint just fine with it…not Da Vincis but good enough for what i do with it…if i needed a wacom i’d get one ๐
still drives me mad to have to take my hand off the mouse to close something i openeded with it on it…
When I upgraded to CS from 5.5 I felt the same way as Claude. Most of use just don’t like change. I had created 5 sets of round brushes, each set was a different hardness: 0-25-50-75-100 and then created size increments starting at 1 pix up to 999 in various jumps that worked for me. Then used the F5 short-cut to pop open the brush pallet when I needed to change brush size or hardness. The pallet showed me visually which brush I wanted to pick. I also used the [ ] to make small changes is brush size.
This system worked great/fast in 5.5, but didn’t work so well in CS, I had the same issues with the brush window behavior.
With all that said; CS actually makes it easier and faster once you "change" the way you work. I was able to forget the custom made brush sizes and hardness sets, and the need to open the pallet, because now CS all ready includes those options (as posted earlier), I just use the [ ] to change my brush size, and the Shift- [ ] to change the hardness from 0-100 in 4 increments. But change is hard ๐
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