PSE - I love my brushes, but...

[chrisgreiser]

I am a PSE user and love my brushes. I hate that I have to go to such lengths to rotate and/or resize them (the pull-down menu)... I'm wondering if there's a quicker way? Can anyone help?

Lazily yours... Chris

[ccubed]

Well, maybe tell us how you are doing it to begin now. It is not that hard.

One of the easiest ways to resize quickly is by using the [ or ] on your board - - this make the size increase or decrease quickly.

As far as rotating them I don't know of another way to quickly rotate them other than the pull down menu under More Options and dragging the circle. PS3 is similar - -maybe someone else has a secret keyboard shortcut for us.

[k.joi.studios]

In PSE, PS, CS you can use your brush as a "stamp" on a new layer.

Then click ctrl + T. You will get a box around the brushed image and you can rotate and resize with this box (I don't recomend using this method to enlarge a brush by very much due to possible quality issues)

[chrisgreiser]

Thanks for the brackets pointer... I'll try that out.

My "best" techniques is to stamp on a layer and use the transform too to resize and spin - then I collapse the layers back into one when I'm "happy"...

[ccubed]

Originally Posted by scrappinpeep

My "best" techniques is to stamp on a layer and use the transform too to resize and spin - then I collapse the layers back into one when I'm "happy"...

I usually rotate my brush prior to stamping it onto its own layer. I never really rotate it much after stamping it on a layer unless it is to just nudge it a bit.

[HelenaJole]

If you have a Wacom Intuos 3, you can get the 6D pen which detects rotation. If you're looking for a rather extreme solution.

[Thena]

You can also save the brush in a couple of different directions.....

[andreagold]

I have to add that even in CS2, the rotation thing is a pain! I wish there were a better way too.