Is it possible to soften photoshops built in brushes

With Photoshops default round brush the user can adjust the hardness / softness of the brush.
Is there a way to soften any of the many other brush shapes that come in the brush pane.
There are lots of great brush shapes, but if they can only be used at 100% hardness, well, doesn't that severaly limit the scope of the brushes usefullness?
Thx - JeffN

JeffN3 wrote:
Using a gau-blur after each stroke is a slow process.
JeffN
Sounds like you know the program better than some of the regulars here.  Best I can think of off the top of my head, is to use Gausian blur at a level slightly less than needed fpr the brush sizes you typically work with, then asign a single Function key to an Action that either does a Cmd f (You have to be a Mac use to go back that far) to repeat the last filter, so you could build with repeated hits of that Function key.  But that is less than ideal, because it operates on the whole layer.
I tried to make Fade work to soften the last brush stroke, but I couldn't make it do anything other than Opacity, and none of the blend options help.
How about asking in the Scripting forum?  There some really clever people over there who might at least provide a means to blur just the last stroke and not the entire layer.  It's an interesting problem though, and I'll keep on thinking about it.
Check out some of the Wacom airbrush presets.  Some of them do have a 'hardness' slider, but I don't think it's what you want.  But you can adjust spatter size and amount, plus granularity, to get a lot of control of the texture you lay down, and get more control with brush pressure.  We are all having to second guess exactly what look you are trying to achieve.  Perhaps you could upload a non client example?
[EDIT]  I should have added to have the brush panel open and the Tip Shape tab selected.

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