You can create a brush with a size which will vary by rotating the mouse wheel or by using the keyboard arrow keys.
Start with opening the Brush dialog by double_clicking on the Brush area in Toolbox, or by going through
→ → .Click on the Dynamic” for instance. Your brush will appear in the Brush Dialog with a blue corner.
button to open the Brush Editor dialog. Name your brush at once, “Now, go to
→ → .Check the Enable this controller box.
Scroll through the Events list and select Scroll up (Shift). Avoid Scroll up (Ctrl) because Ctrl is yet used by tools to turn to the Color Picker mode.
Click on the Context item to drop the list down. Scroll through this list and select the context-brush-radius-increase item. (You could choose context-brush-radius-increase-skip). Click on OK.
button to open a window that allows you to assign an action to the selected event. If an action is assigned to the event yet, the window opens on this event; else, click on the small triangular button close to theDo the same way to assign the “context-brush-radius-decrease” action to the “Scroll down (Shift)” event to decrease the brush size.
Save your brush by clicking on the
button in the Brush Editor.Now, if you have selected your Dynamic brush, when you work with a tool that has a “Brush” option while pressing the Shift key, the brush size will vary by using the mouse wheel. This change will be visible in real time in the brush area of the Toolbox and in the Brush Dialog.
By enabling the “Main Keyboard” tab, you can, in the same way, assign an action to the events of the keyboard arrow keys.
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Actions are not removed from the window when you delete the brush. You have to delete them manually by clicking on the button after selecting them. |