101. The Brush Opacity Hotkeys

Photoshop hotkeys improve your workflow and give more freedom to better design. Although brush opacity has many variants of keyboard shortcuts, these settings have no two keys combination for the fasters changing. In this post, I’ll show you how to fix it.

Inability to use two key combinations makes work uncomfortable: no capability to assign opacity on touch rings in graphics tablet or keyboard buttons. Fortunately, Photoshop has an opportunity to write scripts that allows automated or add new functions. So was created scripts to adjust the opacity by two keys and I want to share them.

The scripts make you able to set up hotkeys for changing the opacity. One decreases opacity setting on 5% and another one increase it in the same amount.

Compatibility with Adobe Photoshop CC 2014 and above on Windows and Mac

Download by link and read the instruction below.

Installation

There are two script files in the archive: [R] Opacity Up.jsx and [R] Opacity Down.jsx. Put them into photoshop path to the scripts Photoshop/Presets/Scripts/. After restarting Photoshop, scripts are available in File→Scripts.

Scripts are on top of the list

Assign custom hotkeys

Open keyboard shortcuts preference choosing Edit→Keyboard Shortcuts.... In the list of command, go to File > Scripts, find out installed scripts names and define your shortcuts for them. For example, this one:

• opt+cmd+[ to decrease
• opt+cmd+] to increase

The Application command shortcuts

After all steps, new custom hotkeys are ready to use for speed up your work!

Additionally-

You can set up your percentage amount of opacity in the script files. Replace var Amount count:

var Amount = 5; // Replace on your adjusted percentage