Edit Buttons and their arrangement
This section is about editing individual button properties and customizing your panel.
To edit button settings, chose Edit button...
from RMB-menu or Alt+Click the button:
Edit Button window structure resembles the Add Button window.
The assigned preset and its type are indicated in the first section
The second section is used to change the appearance of the button
The third section is used to update preset setting or change new appearance options
Button Appearance
Select a different appearance type to recreate the button with different name, background color or update the thumbnail.
To change a name or a button title for thumbnail button, select
Custom image
, useCurrent Thumb
and change the name inName on the panel
field:
Update thumbnails
Edit thumbnail
will open open thumbnail of the button for editing in PS, Edit stroke preview
will open stroke preview for Brusherator Preview.
Update Preset and Create/Update Alternative
Current Brush ot Tool Preset can be updated directly from Edit Button window of Brusherator. Use Update the preset
button to replace the preset, assigned to the button, with active instrument. Alternatives also can be created or updated from this window.
Edit Mode
In Edit mode you can
resize any button
grab and move buttons around
align them
match size/color
rearrange shelves (if you have
Show Shelves as Tabs
option enabled)
Hit Alt+Click on empty space, use RMB-menu or Edit Mode button in the Bottom Menu to switch to Edit Mode.
Selecting and moving buttons
Draw rectangular selection, add or substract from selection with Ctrl/Cmd+Click.
Move buttons freely.
Note that in older CC2013 Ctrl
/Cmd+Click
won’t work, there’s a Add to Selection
item in button RMB-menu.
Resizing
Grab and move a handler in the bottom-right of a button to resize it.
Aligning, stacking
Use Align
submenu to align or stack buttons together
Matching Size and Color
Use Match
submenu to match buttons size or background color. The button on which the submenu was called will be a reference for size or color.
Transfering buttons between shelves
Select the buttons you want to copy or move to a different shelf and use Transfer Buttons
command from Fly-out menu (or Bottom menu for CC2013)
Deleting Buttons
Shift+Click on a button or use Delete button
RMB-menu command to delete a button from the panel.
While in Edit Mode you can delete several selected buttons with RBM-menu command.
Only the button
will delete the button from Brusherator without deleting the preset and thumbnails (useful if you have the same button on several shelves)Button and thumbnails
will delete the button and all the thumbnails, but leave the preset in PhotoshopButton, thumbnail and preset
will also delete the Preset from Photoshop