Multi tool actions

[KenC]

I'm getting to love the cutbrush tool and I'm trying to create an action that first uses the cutbrush freehand, and then free resize to get the brush tuned like I want it.

So I have an action doing this:

Brush:Cut freehand
Brush: Free resize
End

Only the Cut freehand action is triggered, the free resize is ignored. Maybe this can't be done or I'm doing something wrong. Would be pretty cool if it worked.

[Fabrice]

I'm getting to love the cutbrush tool and I'm trying to create an action that first uses the cutbrush freehand, and then free resize to get the brush tuned like I want it.

So I have an action doing this:

Brush:Cut freehand
Brush: Free resize
End

Only the Cut freehand action is triggered, the free resize is ignored. Maybe this can't be done or I'm doing something wrong. Would be pretty cool if it worked.

It should work, I will run some tests.

[Svengali]

Ken,

Maybe I'm wrong but I don't believe those two commands assigned to a button can be made work one after the other...


Here's my solution to the cutbrush feature which I use A LOT.

I've concatenated two operations onto one shortcut key (letter i) to be: Drawing Mode:01 (Color) + Brush:CutFreehand. (by including the drawingmode command I guarantee being ready to stamp no matter what drawingmode I was in when I did the cut)

I've also set the rocker switch on my stylus to be:

upper rocker = i (letter i)
lower rocker = right click

What this means is that any time I want to create a cutbrush from the current frame, I click the upper rocker on my stylus which puts me in cutfreehand mode and I can immediately COPY from any part of the frame just by drawing the shape.

What's cool though is I can follow the upper click with a click-and-hold of the lower rocker as I draw my shape, which lets me CUT - i.e. pickup the cutbrush - and leave the clean background underneath.

At that point I can either press my shortcut key to free RESIZE the cutbrush or my other shortcut key to ROTATE the cutbrush as required, then start stamping.

No buttons involved.

Sven

[KenC]

Thanks Sven.

I've hooked up my numerical keypad to do cut, freehand resize and rotate now instead of the rocker switch, because I have those bound to rotate canvas and move canvas which I use constantly.

Would be nice if the actions waited for one to complete and then the next would be triggered so you could string such operations together. I've found I allmost always resize the cut brush a bit, so having cut and then resize trigger would be quite usefull.

I need more buttons on my keyboard, there's so many things I discover in TVP that I want on shortcuts, just not enough keys to go around