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As many of you know, you can change the size of the brush with the keys
"[" and "]" (or "'" and "?" in a spanish keyboard).

When you use these keys, the size of the brush ranges from 1 to
2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,20,30,40,50,60,70,80,90,100,125,150,175,200,etc.
But I find the jump from 10 to 20 is too coarse.

Is there any way of changing this so i can make a finer jump from 10 to
12,14,16,18,20,25,30,40,etc?

Maybe this scale is stored in some editable config file like tw10428.dat
or SourcePathPanel.dat?

JW

Quote:> When you use these keys, the size of the brush ranges from 1 to
> 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,20,30,40,50,60,70,80,90,100,125,150,175,200,etc.
> But I find the jump from 10 to 20 is too coarse.

> Is there any way of changing this so i can make a finer jump from 10 to
> 12,14,16,18,20,25,30,40,etc?

Yes.

When you use [ and ], the brush jumps to the previous and next brush in
the Brushes palette. Change the brushes in the Brushes palette and
you'll change the brushes you select with [ and ].

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Look for a "Master Preset" slider in the brush palette - this allows you to
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Quote:> Yes.

> When you use [ and ], the brush jumps to the previous and next brush in
> the Brushes palette. Change the brushes in the Brushes palette and
> you'll change the brushes you select with [ and ].

No, when you use [ and ] you change the diameter of the brush but is is
independent from the predefined brushes you have.  "," and "." are the
keys that jump up and down in the brush palette, but I can't have a
sequence of brush sizes for each brush I have or each new one I define.
I should have thousands of brushes!

JW

Y dijo Mike Russell, el 28/09/2006 21:03:<br>

Mike, this "Master preset" is the slider you get when you click on the
current brush or click right button to show the brush palette This is
the method used by begineers to resize their brushes. Experienced users
only use this slider when they need a precise size that can't be
obtained by using [ and ] keys. But the point on my question was to do
this fine tuning fast without having to show the brush palette. Using [
and ] keys is way faster.

JW

Quote:> As many of you know, you can change the size of the brush with the keys
> "[" and "]" (or "'" and "?" in a spanish keyboard).

> When you use these keys, the size of the brush ranges from 1 to
> 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,20,30,40,50,60,70,80,90,100,125,150,175,200,etc.
> But I find the jump from 10 to 20 is too coarse.

> Is there any way of changing this so i can make a finer jump from 10 to
> 12,14,16,18,20,25,30,40,etc?

> Maybe this scale is stored in some editable config file like tw10428.dat
> or SourcePathPanel.dat?

I managed to find this sequence inside photoshop.exe so I'm afraid it is
hard coded in the program. I found it as a sequence of unsigned long
words ranging from 1 to 2500 at position 0x010B0930:
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,20,30,40,50,60,70,80,90,100,125,150,175,200,250,300,
400,500,600,700,800,900,1000,1100,1200,1300,1400,1500,1600,1700,1800,1900,
2000,2100,2200,2300,2400,2500

(Most probably your version has the sequence at another position)

So I made a backup of the exe and changed the sequence. I moved all
values bigger than 10 five places up (I had to remove last five values
to make space) and added the following values: 12,14,1,18,20,25
replacing value 20 and the five new spaces. So the new sequence is this:
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,12,14,16,18,20,25,30,40,50,60,70,80,90,100,125,150,
175,200,250,300,400,500,600,700,800,900,1000,1100,1200,1300,1400,1500,
1600,1700,1800,1900,2000

I Crossed my fingers and loaded Photoshop... It WORKS!!

The drawback is now the [ and ] keys only go up to 2000 but you still
can go up to 2500 with the slider (I don't use to work with so big brushes).

Of course this is a last resort solution. I suppose the next patch
upgrade will remove this modification or will give a checksum error, so
I can't reccomend this to anyone without a hacker heart.

JW

[re changing the granularity of the square bracket keys]

Quote:> I managed to find this sequence inside photoshop.exe so I'm afraid it is
> hard coded in the program. I found it as a sequence of unsigned long words
> ranging from 1 to 2500 at position 0x010B0930:
> 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,20,30,40,50,60,70,80,90,100,125,150,175,200,250,300,
> 400,500,600,700,800,900,1000,1100,1200,1300,1400,1500,1600,1700,1800,1900,
> 2000,2100,2200,2300,2400,2500

> (Most probably your version has the sequence at another position)

> So I made a backup of the exe and changed the sequence. I moved all values
> bigger than 10 five places up (I had to remove last five values to make
> space) and added the following values: 12,14,1,18,20,25 replacing value 20
> and the five new spaces. So the new sequence is this:
> 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,12,14,16,18,20,25,30,40,50,60,70,80,90,100,125,150,
> 175,200,250,300,400,500,600,700,800,900,1000,1100,1200,1300,1400,1500,
> 1600,1700,1800,1900,2000

> I Crossed my fingers and loaded Photoshop... It WORKS!!

> The drawback is now the [ and ] keys only go up to 2000 but you still can
> go up to 2500 with the slider (I don't use to work with so big brushes).

> Of course this is a last resort solution. I suppose the next patch upgrade
> will remove this modification or will give a checksum error, so I can't
> reccomend this to anyone without a hacker heart.

JW, this is bit pushing at its finest.  Congratulations.
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Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com/forum/