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Tutorial: Hotkey-ing Brushesby ~firedudewraith

Resources & Stock Images / Tutorials / Application Reference / Photoshop

A few people suggest that I make a tutorial on how to assign hotkeys to different brushes in Photoshop. I think it's a great idea as I'm sure it helps many artist to save plenty of times when painting.

"Action" is a powerful tools. Besides brushes, you can use the same method for dodge / burn tools, pen tool, etc. Feel free to ask me any question and I'd gladly answer them.

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~garrette2010 Feb 15, 2013

thank you very much !! this has been extremely helpful and gonna save me a lot of time .

~MrPassover Jul 9, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

Actions are the business tbh and this is a good introduction to using them.

I use several self created actions for little things like say I created a vector path between 2-3 points, I use upto 3 actions to decide what to do with it - Stroke: With Pressure Sim., Stroke Without Pressure Sim & Stroke Fill, so it inks the line/space I created- it also deletes the path as well.
Another one I use is for Block fills - It selects the Bucket tool, Expands the selection by 2 Pixels, Fills the selected area and then Deselects - combine with the Quick Selection/Magic Wand tool this is a great time saver. I have one the contracts the selection too for Masking.

Its the little things that make a difference

~The-Shmooze Jul 14, 2011

I love this so much. Thanks for the great tip!

~tilt-dk Jun 1, 2010 Professional General Artist

thanks - never thought of that

*DominicHautmann Mar 11, 2010

awesome! thx ery much!

~MiatoSakura-chan Feb 25, 2010

I did save my preferred brushes in the tool presets but to have a hotkey for those is cool! thanks for this!

~theHarechan Feb 15, 2010 Hobbyist General Artist

Thanks! This will be so helpful! ^__^

~Aracos Feb 15, 2010

In general I´d say nice tutorial and it could be really helpful, but I only use about 4 brushes per painting so just cycling through them via hotkeys work just fine for me