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Configure brush keyboard shortcuts

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Configure brush keyboard shortcuts

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- [Narrator] As we've seen in other movies, brushes are used for a lot of things in GIMP, so it's important that you can get your brushes to behave exactly the way that you want, with the least amount of effort. One way to do that is by setting up a few keyboards shortcuts to work with brushes. By using keyboard shortcuts instead of dialogs, you don't have to move your cursor away from your artwork, and you can make adjustments on the fly and just keep working. And you can create keyboard shortcuts for just about every aspect of a brush, including aspect ratio, angle, size, hardness, spacing, and more. For example, one thing that I almost always want to do when I'm using a brush, is to adjust the hardness. While you can adjust the hardness of a default brush in the tool options, you can't control its hardness with a keyboard shortcut. But you can use a keyboard shortcut to adjust the hardness of a custom brush. So if I take the hardness 50 brush and click the button in the brushes…

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