any photoshop users.... need some midi help

**dj stifffy** · 11-14-2011, 03:09 PM

do any of you use a midi controller to control stuff like colour, brush size etc..... and if soo how do you do it??

ive been looking for plug-ins and scripts to do this for a while and thought I might aswell come here... I have something like this for lightroom called paddy

but havent found a ps alternative... I want to run a korg nano kontrol2 with it put have no experience with glove pie.... thanks in advance, Steven.

**DJ_Pabloco** · 11-14-2011, 04:06 PM

...... im sorry but why the hell would you need that. your only making everything harder to use.

**dj stifffy** · 11-14-2011, 04:08 PM

because it saves me moving my mouse for quick drawing, it means whilst keeping my mouse in the one place I can change colour shade, and size making it faster for me to draw and edit, i have buttons aswell that would be good for eraser, pen, pencil, brush selection means i can get rid of the tool select boxes and have a bigger work area.... better productivity

**minimal** · 11-14-2011, 10:20 PM

hmmm...interesting. I guess you know all the keyboard shortcuts and you're maxed on that?
Opens some possibilities but doesn't seem obvious at first.

**dj stifffy** · 11-15-2011, 04:55 AM

Originally Posted by minimal

hmmm...interesting. I guess you know all the keyboard shortcuts and you're maxed on that?
Opens some possibilities but doesn't seem obvious at first.

I know where your coming from and do use a lot of shortcuts cut what I want to map is fadders for quick selection like to make a brush larger or harder it takes a lot of presses, if i have a fadder with the full range I can just move up and down as I create. Same would be helpfull with colour select but also a bit harder.

**sparkbro** · 11-15-2011, 04:56 AM

What kind of things are you wanting to control with the nano kontrol.. You could use midiox or something to convert the midi to keyboard shortcuts i guess?

**dj stifffy** · 11-15-2011, 07:50 AM

it would be to control adjustments like said above... brush size etc.... thought there may have been a program out there to do it but there isnt so it doesnt work as expected only way I can kind of do it is in bomes and that is to make it so that if i want a bigger brush I map it to a fadder 0 for smaller size, 127 for bigger size and then mapped to the corrisponding shortcut keys in photoshop which isnt that great... it means to make it smaller i have to keep hitting it down and bigger i keep hitting it up.

I know its sort of how I want it but maybe there is a way to do it so that moving the fadder up makes it gradually bigger to the max size and down makes it gradually smaller to the smallest size brush....??

**photojojo** · 11-15-2011, 07:57 AM

[ will decrease brush size and ] will increase brush size. Or does that not do what you want?

**dj stifffy** · 11-15-2011, 08:07 AM

it does in a sence but it would of been nice to have it on a fader if possible meaning laptop could be out of the way and just need my mouse, nanokontrol and bigger monitor.