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Adjustment Brush Resize Tricks

 

*Adobe Bridge CS4 and Adobe Camera Raw 5 Tip*

When using the Adjustment Brush for retouching, you need to change the size of the brush quite often.  You can use the Left and Right Bracket keys ( [ ] ) to make small incremental changes to the brush size, but the mouse scroll wheel is the quickest way to resize the brush.  If you’re using a Wacom tablet (highly recommended), you can still use the mouse scroll wheel.  Place the mouse where you can reach it with your free nonmouse hand and use both together.

5 Comments

  1. Keith McFarland said on — July 15, 2009 @ 10:40 am

    Including the shift key with the brackets (SHIFT+[ and SHIFT+]) will also increase/decrease the brush hardness by 25% increments. Very handy.

  2. Houston Brown said on — July 15, 2009 @ 10:57 am

    This only works in Camera RAW right?

  3. Keith McFarland said on — July 15, 2009 @ 3:32 pm

    Nope, it works just fine in good ol’ fashioned Photoshop. :-)

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  5. Joseph said on — March 23, 2011 @ 1:06 pm

    Shift + [ ] brush hardness…

    Nice tip, thanks!

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