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[tomt]

In painter 8 you have couple of keyboard shortcuts for resizing a brush, the first is the [ or ] keys to make a brush larger or smaller. Typing 1 through 0 to adjust the transparency, and for erase, assuming Wacom use, simply turn the stylus over.

[Cris-Palomino]

In addition to what Tom pointed out, there is also a keyboard shortcut:

option+command (mac)/alt+ctrl (pc)

When you press these keys, you get a crosshair, click and drage and you will see a circle. This is the size of the brush.

There is a caveat to this. If your brush has the ability to go from a thinner stroke to a thicker stroke, say by pressure, the circle represents the extent of the brush when you apply full pressure.

A goauche brush, not set to pressure, no variation in stroke (below each brush is the size of the circle i made - I made it with the brush because my screen capture turned the circle into an arrow).

http://www.elektralusion.com/painter/BroadBrushGouache.jpg

Scratchboard Tool in pens...set to pressure.

http://www.elektralusion.com/painter/ScratchboardTool.jpg

A soft pencil.

http://www.elektralusion.com/painter/SoftPencil.jpg

A felt marker.

http://www.elektralusion.com/painter/FeltMarker.jpg

and Vine Charcoal.

http://www.elektralusion.com/painter/VineCharcoal.jpg

The exceptions are the wet brushes, Watercolor and Digital Watercolor brushes, which extend past the circle you make with full pressure. Those you will need to play with this method to know how large or small to make the reference circle with these keyboard strokes. But it does afford you a quick way to resize your brush.

Cris

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