brush hardness = pen pressure ?

[jfrancis]

I don't think so.

Maybe - and I'm just blue sky-ing here - you could design a brush that has a sparse array of dark dots throughout, and a dim, but dense arrangement inside that, so that light pressure picks up the sparse dots as 'soft' and heavier pressure pickes up the now, visible dim clump as 'hard'

Never tried it - I might be describing something undoable -

[jfrancis]

I wish the 'dual brush' (http://www.digitalartform.com/archives/2009/06/photoshop_dual.html)were the answer, but I don't think dual brushes are as useful as they sounded at first.

[sanakris]

With pen sensitivity corel painter is better with that. The best thing you can do right now is to switch brushes. And a short cut to do this is your right click on your mouse or tablet.

[gruhn]

The range of values seems a bit chunky and you have to stop to prevent from drawing straight lines, but shift-[ and shift-] are at least quick. Easier for me cuz I'm left handed :-P

[DeltaMikeSierra]

you can set up several brushes in your brush palette, make sure they're side by side, as in immediately adjacent in the brush cue.

use the < and > keys to switch brushes, [ and ] keys to change the size of brushes, and shift+[ and shift+] to change the hardness of the brushes.

mind you, as soon as you switch brushes, you lose the settings. always 'make new brush preset' when you want to keep the settings.

[zoster]

thanks to everyone for the useful tips!
maybe adobe will implement pen sensitivity to brush hardness in future suits

[CGTalk Moderation]

This thread has been automatically closed as it remained inactive for 12 months. If you wish to continue the discussion, please create a new thread in the appropriate forum.