Brush Tool Color

This is just an idea I thought might be worth posting. Today I was messing around with the brushes and viewmode, I hit f into the full mode and found the only way I could see what color the brush was was to actually paint then ctrlz, I thougt a perfect place for the color to display would be in the middle of the brush itself. Hope this gets implemented!

If your using cs5, in the fullscreen mode you be able to move the cursor
to the far right or left side of the screen and see the toolbox or panels pop
into view.
If you have open gl enabled you could use the keyboard shortcut Shift+Alt+Right click
to see the Hud color picker.
MTSTUNER

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seodude wrote:
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caligula1 wrote:
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A couple of thought for you... There are no easy to use shortcuts unused in Photoshop nowadays, so I sometimes steal them from little or never used operations. For instance, how many people use H for panning instead of the Space bar. I know H has the benefit of locking in panning, but I don't think I have 'ever' had a need for it. I have, in the past, stolen Y from Blur and Smudge, but I have not done so in recent versions.
But for quickly and constantly picking background colours, you need a convenient key, and that suggests the Z key to me, as I always zoom with the mouse and Ctrl (or Alt) Space bar. Just a thought.
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Shift F4 is for an Action I used to use a few versions back, to place guides at 50% vertical and horizontal. They are easy to snap drag nowadays.
One last idea on a similar vein, are programmable keys on custom keyboards. I don't know if they are available for the Mac, but I use a Logitech G110 which has 12 programmable keys on the left of the usual layout. These 12 keys can be programed three different ways, and selected by the M keys above. I originally bought this keyboard for its illuminated keys, but I quickly got used to the extra functionality. Even the little volume control, in the top right corner, (highlighted in magenta below) is such a convenience. I use these keys for launching Actions,, although I found I had to make both G8 and G12 mirror the Ctrl key as I occasionally hit them by mistake.

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Thank you, Sudarshan.
Actually the first video explain what I'm trying to achive, but not how to do it.
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