: Is there a way to toggle paintbrush in Photoshop by holding a key down? I just had an idea and not sure if its possible. Can toggling the Paint Brush be done with a keyboard button instead

@Jamie315

In windows you can use Autohotkey to do this.

Autohotkey accompanied with the script below, will essentially do a mouse click every time you press b key.

Download the scripthere or alternatively copy it from below.

Once you have AHK installed, double click the script and it'll start running right away.

To close the script: Right-click the script in the system tray and choose to Exit the script

Note that this essentially overrides your normal b key behavior, so be sure to exit the script when you don't need it anymore. Also, you could set multiple key combinations instead of a single key.



...and here's the code, if you don't feel like downloading the file, or it's not available anymore.

b:: Click down
b Up:: Click up


Copy the code and paste it into notepad or something and save it as .ahk.





As a bonus:

If you want to click a key to activate it and click a key again to deactivate it, you could do it with this code:

b::
if toggle := !toggle
Click down
else
Click up
return

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