A thought on brush rotation

Apparently, it's not nearly as easy as it should be to rotate a brush.
I appreciate that jitters exist, as well as "manual" rotation, but what I feel would be possibly most helpful would be to link rotation to the mouse wheel...
Just saying.

Hi Charles, thanks for the reply.
This is really more for stamping/stenciling work, although I would like to be able to angle the brush when used like a "real" brush to control the angle of a flat tip.
In other words, to control the angle before the brush tip moves.
Also, I noticed that even when rotated, the preview (brush shape) does not rotate.

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Also for the 3d model rotation/movement...why not use a a simple scheme like Maya or 3DMax. Its such a pain to move that I'd rather learn Zbrush or Mudbox or even do it the old fashion way and paint it on a 2d plane....
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Dear CS3 and CS4 photoshop users,
I hope I can straighten out the whole confusion with the 6D art pen ROTATION feature not working. (not a solution but clarify)
Although we appreciate all forms of opinions, I have a message for people saying that rotation feature will work when you set the brush settings correctly. WE_ARE_NOT_NEW at this. Many of us have been using the rotation feature with CS3 perfectly fine, and yes, we know how to set it up. Thank you for your tips but IT IS NOT working as it should. I don't know whether it is defendant with: x64 or x32 syst on our part, driver problem with wacom, or in fact with the CS4. I will tell you what I did and what I got however.
X64 Vista Ult. 6G RAM, Quad core, both Intuos 3 and Cintiq 20wsx.(Cintiq is my primary and the only one I use now a days and I don't have both plugged at the same time. However, I have tried with Intuos3 separately, and it won't work) I uninstalled old wacom driver and updated to the latest (5days old), remade brush settings fresh with rotation setting (not just using my own saved preset from CS3) and it still WON"T WORK... so there it is. Hope this clarifies the issue so that the TECH can help us (please) and not think that we are all confused.

Rotate Brushes

I asked about this process in the Photoshop forum, but was directed to post the request here.
I have CS4 and a Wacom Tablet.
Currently, we can change the brush size and softness with keyboard shortcuts. I can also change the brush size by using the ring on my tablet.
I need to be able to rotate my custom watercolor brushes in a similar manner. I know I can change the rotation by going into the brush menu and rotate the circle with the arrow, but that is slow and clumbsy if going back and forth to dozens of brushes and needing to rotate brushes on the image.
I would like to see an option to use the adjustment ring on my tablet to rotate the brush instead of just the size.
I would like to see an option to rotate the brush in 5 degree (or any amount set up as a pref) from the current angle by clicking a keyboard character. Actually, it might take two different keyboard characters. One would rotate clockwise and the other counterclockwise by the set amount.
I know I can rotate my canvas in CS4, but anytime I do that, the brushes rotate at the same time. An option to leave the brush angle at the original orientation and rotate the canvas might work, too.
It is possible to adjust the angle or rotation of a brush by telling Photoshop to use the tilt of the stylus on the tablet, but the brush preview over the work surface does not indicate the angle the brush will be applied when clicked.This makes the feature basically worthless for my needs.
Please include any and all of these suggestions ASAP.
Thanks,
M. Jackson

Added to the feature request:
Currently, the Wacom tablet has the option to resize the brush while spinning the ring one direction or the other. It would be a nice feature if they could let you press the Shift button on the tablet (the top one in the lower group) as you spin the ring to rotate the brush. Even better if the software/hardward let me pick the default of "either" size or rotate. If so, depending on the type of image I am working on at the time, I might opt to have Brush Rotate set as the default mode and use Brush Resize as the secondary option requiring the Shift button.
The other option that makes sense to me would be to use the comma and period keys while in the Brush tool. Clicking one would rotate the brush 5 degrees one direction and the other would rotate the brush 5 degrees the other direction from its current angle. Holding down the Shift button would rotate each by 25 or -25 degrees. Also, using the X and Y commands while in the Brush tool could flip its orientation without going to the menus.
This example isn't too pretty, but illustrates what I am needing to do. I am not clicking and dragging a brush, but using it instead like a rubber stamp. I need to be able to see where the brush stroke will be applied and also the orientation on the page before clicking.

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Is there a way to use a hotkey to rotate brush tip angle?

I would like to program my Intuos Touch to be able to rotate the brush tip angle with the touch wheel. But I am unaware if that is an available feature at this time.

There was a discussion in the Scripting Forum about changing some Brush parameters via Script a while back.
If I remember correctly the angle could be changed only for round brush tips, not for custom/sampled brush tips and as this preceded erodible and bristle tips those would likely also disqualify.
Edit: This means I don’t know a default method to rotate a Brush via Keyboard Shortcut.

Regular (not art) brush "ghost" cursor rotation

This feature has actually been requested and discussed elsewhere in the Photoshop forums, but it's worth mentioning again, one, and two, I don't think it's utility has been fully explained.
Chris Cox, who works for Adobe, explained that OS mouse cursor limitations make this feature dififcult to impliment properly. I don't understand the issue well enough to comment, but I can't see why the OPTION shouldn't exist (even if it slows the cursor dramatically).
I frequently use custom brushes for texture and collage work (say, ink splatter brushes or leaves or whatever). You can get a lot more life out of a brush if it can be rotated, so that the textures don't look repetitive.
But here's the key thing -- it's VERY important that you can see the angle of the brush -- a leaf, say, may have a rounded bottom and pointy tips. If you're using it as an eraser to create a jagged edge, for example, you need to know that the pointy tip is facing the correct side. Doing this blind is obviously a chore. What's more, the cursor doesn't need to be especially responsive as I'm basically just stamping with the brush, rather than fluidly painting with it.
I have to imagine that the already existing OpenGL support could help greatly here. I mean, if realtime canvas rotation is possible, rotation a cursor ghost shouldn't be THAT hard, right?
P.S. Corel Painter doesn't exactly do this well either (with custom "capture dabs"), so the feature would be an way for Photoshop to jump further ahead.

Thanks for the response -- I agree that in general responsiveness does matter. What I was saying is that if cursor lag is an insurmountable problem, leaving it as an option would still be helpful as there are many times when even a sluggish (but accurate) cursor ghost would be of immense help.
You could also come up with a hybrid solution. Create a static brush cursor outline (as exists now), but create an option to superimpose an arrow over it that indicates rotation direction. While not perfect, I imagine my brain would grow used to it pretty quickly.
I realize that these features are harder to impliment than they sound, and that Photoshop's primary audience is Photographers, not painters, so I appreciate Adobe's willingness to at least consider the feature.

Rotate canvis unintuitive, hot key limitations, new adjustment layer features? Brush size slider bad

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Rotate canvas unintuitive:
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alt R and control R and shift R cannot be assigned to different things. I would prefer it if i could customize all of these.
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Photoshop crashes when I change the roundness and rotation of brushes

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Rotating a Brush in Photoshop

I did a search and see people have been asking for some easy way to rotate a custom brush in Photoshop similar to using the brackets to resize the brush. I have a Wacom Intuos 4 tablet. I can change the brush angle by tilting the pen, but as far as I can tell, I don't get to see the brush orientation on the screen before clicking...making it basically useless for my purposes. The current method of going to the brush shape box and rotating the circle and arrow is very slow especially if I need to rotate it a little with each stroke or impression.
Does anyone know of an add-on command or script that might help me out? Or, if I am missing a feature, please advise. I did a lot of google searches on this topic and didn't see a solution on other sites either. It looks like a feature in demand, but still missing in the current software.
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About the time I asked this question on this forum, I sent an email to Wacom about any possible feature the Intuos 4 might have to rotate a brush. I received this response about a week later:
"What you are looking for is the 6D Art Pen. This pen has enhanced barrel rotation so as you rotate the pen it rotates the brush on the screen (worst with most non round brushes). "
I am now curious if anyone here has one of these pens and if you are able to see the rotation of the brush image on the screen as you rotate the stylus as described above?
Thanks again,
M. Jackson

Brush Cursor Rotation - Preview available?

The problem is well known:
If you are using a tablet that can detect rotation of the pen you can rotate the angle of your brush along with it. This is very useful in inking and painting. In CS5 you get a preview of the way the brush is rotated - but only with the bristle tip brushes. Normal brushes are completely static in preview. When starting the stroke the preview freezes completely however.
Is there any way to fix this? What reason is there it is not already happening?
This is annoying me no end, as I bought the a wacom art pan to that particular end and now I cannot properly use it. Please fix this, if possible.

"This is expected behavior. Unfortunately it would be too big of a performance hit to update the cursor during painting."
So I can only assume by that statement that this feature has actually been created but not implemented into CS6 do to performance issues? I honestly believe that the minds of Adobe can write this feature without having performance issues if Corel Painter can do it. Also looking at the new features and gpu enhancements, why would performance be an issue? This is a beta, at least have the option be available to use or not use for users .
" Is there an option that allows your Brush Cursor to stay active while you paint? If not, will this option be available?"
The first question was answered but not the second question.
Thanks for your quick responce M Shaw

A thought on brush rotation

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