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Can I stop losing my adjusted settings on brushes without having to clutter my palette with the variety of hardnesses and diameters I use as new brushes, plus all the visits to preset manager to drag them into order ?
With Pshop4, I could choose an 8px dia 100 hardness brush, alter it to 10px dia and its hardness to say 80, draw with it, then choose another brush, draw with that then go back to the previous 10px (former8px)brush and carry on with its hardness value still at 80. Now with Pshop6 and 7 I find its reverted back to 8px hdnss100.
I removed all the Adobe presets, created a few brushes of my own, 1,2,3 5, 10, 15 px etc all hardness 100 and saved this set as my own. Still though selecting say 5px and altering hardness to 90 for one area of the picture, using it, and a few other diameters for the bit needing 90, sees them all defaulting to 100…aaaaargh !, so ones own set does not get round this problem.
In the course of my work, I often find myself altering the hardness value many times anywhere between 0 to 80 for one brush, whilst tracing in quick mask mode around shapes. A typical minute could see this,…in one area 15dia hd70 may suffice, then move higher onto a more distant item and need 60hd, as I paint into a narrowing space, choose a smaller diameter and adjust that to 60, then back to the 15dia hd70, but now its reverted back to its preset value, so I have to set it up again, the only way to stop it reverting is to make it a new brush, then go to preset manager and drag it up next to 15dia 70, but then when I need 15dia 50, do this new brush-preset manager drag business all over again if I am likely to need it for the next few minutes.
In Pshop 4 I simply accesses a small line up of several diameters, each of which I could adjust hardness on when required, given this new system this would now be a whole line of just one diameter, with different hardnesses.
We thus have a row of diameter 1, various hardnesses, next row 2, 3,5 7,10,15,20,30,40,50 and so on….many rows and visits back and forth to preset manager every time I create a new hardness so as to drag the icon into its appropriate place.
Pshop 6 had an easy access hardness slider in the option bar, part sweetening the bitter pill of things defaulting to preset hardness. Now with Pshop7 its gone, I need to get at it in Brush Shapes, which does mop up screen ‘real estate’ somewhat !
Does CS improve on this situation, or is there a way of stopping these presets reverting to the start setting. It goes without saying that if a user adjusts a diameter or hardness, he did it for a reason, he doesn’t want to lose it.
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With Pshop4, I could choose an 8px dia 100 hardness brush, alter it to 10px dia and its hardness to say 80, draw with it, then choose another brush, draw with that then go back to the previous 10px (former8px)brush and carry on with its hardness value still at 80. Now with Pshop6 and 7 I find its reverted back to 8px hdnss100.
I removed all the Adobe presets, created a few brushes of my own, 1,2,3 5, 10, 15 px etc all hardness 100 and saved this set as my own. Still though selecting say 5px and altering hardness to 90 for one area of the picture, using it, and a few other diameters for the bit needing 90, sees them all defaulting to 100…aaaaargh !, so ones own set does not get round this problem.
In the course of my work, I often find myself altering the hardness value many times anywhere between 0 to 80 for one brush, whilst tracing in quick mask mode around shapes. A typical minute could see this,…in one area 15dia hd70 may suffice, then move higher onto a more distant item and need 60hd, as I paint into a narrowing space, choose a smaller diameter and adjust that to 60, then back to the 15dia hd70, but now its reverted back to its preset value, so I have to set it up again, the only way to stop it reverting is to make it a new brush, then go to preset manager and drag it up next to 15dia 70, but then when I need 15dia 50, do this new brush-preset manager drag business all over again if I am likely to need it for the next few minutes.
In Pshop 4 I simply accesses a small line up of several diameters, each of which I could adjust hardness on when required, given this new system this would now be a whole line of just one diameter, with different hardnesses.
We thus have a row of diameter 1, various hardnesses, next row 2, 3,5 7,10,15,20,30,40,50 and so on….many rows and visits back and forth to preset manager every time I create a new hardness so as to drag the icon into its appropriate place.
Pshop 6 had an easy access hardness slider in the option bar, part sweetening the bitter pill of things defaulting to preset hardness. Now with Pshop7 its gone, I need to get at it in Brush Shapes, which does mop up screen ‘real estate’ somewhat !
Does CS improve on this situation, or is there a way of stopping these presets reverting to the start setting. It goes without saying that if a user adjusts a diameter or hardness, he did it for a reason, he doesn’t want to lose it.
Envirographics
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