Lack of Tool options in CS2?

[Eliseu Gouveia]

Hey, folks,

I wonder if you can help me out here, I made the leap from Photoshop 5.5 to CS2 a while ago and it´s taking some getting-.used-to.
The main reason why I still use 5.5 and go back to it every chance I get is simple... more art tools.
CS2 brushes may be more powerful, but 5.5 gives me a plethora of choices at my disposal, only a keystroke away:

B- brush,
j - airbrush
n - pencil
shift+n - line tool

Funny as it may be, I have optimised my work process over the years by merely circling between these 3-4 options. Sometimes I´m painting with a normal brush, doing SFX with an overlay airbrush and correcting linework with the pencil tool.

Now skip to CS2 and I have just two options:

b- brush
u - line tool

Sure I can turn the brush into a pencil by hitting shift + b but if I want to work with two tools, say a normal brush and an overlay brush, I have to go back and forth to the panel at the top of the screen dozens upon dozens of times, switching overlay to normal and back.

That´s not the most productive workflow...

Do you have any ideas of how I could optimise/improve this or whether there are tools at my disposal that I haven´t taped yet?

Thanks. :)

[Huey Yeng]

You can actually modify the keyboard shortcut to match your PS 5.5 settings.

Only thing I think missing when they introduce the new brush engine in PS 7 is the airbrush tool as you need to enable it when the Brush tool is active.

Too bad Adobe still doesn't allow users to assign keyboard shortcut for Tool Presets.