Friday, January 6, 2012

Photoshop Keyboard Shortcut: Changing brush size

I'll keep this Photoshop Tip brief. You can use the [ and ] keys to decrease or increase respectively the size of any Photoshop brush that you have selected. Just click on your Airbrush, Cloning Tool, Eraser etc an watch your cursor's circle brush size indicator change size as you press either of the bracket keys. Holding either one down will make it change quickly or you can just tap it to change the brush size incrementally. This is definitely one of the handiest shortcuts as you can see the brush size change while it is on top of the image which is much better and quicker then using the size slider. Have fun with it and watch how much faster you can work.

One side note is that there are instances where you won't see the circle brush size indicator. It is a preference that can be turned on or off but is usually on by default. Even when it's on however, I've run into instances (guessing they are memory related) where the brush size indicator doesn't show up and the only way to get it back is to restart Photoshop.

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