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Subject: 'Pencil' mode?

RaysOfLight opened this issue on Dec 02, 2002 · 11 posts

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RaysOfLight ( ) posted Mon, 02 December 2002 at 5:06 PM · edited Sat, 21 September 2024 at 1:30 AM

okay, i know that photoshop is a very sophisticated program, with many advanced features and stuff, but for the LIFE of me, i cannot figure out how to get photoshop to recognize that i've got a pressure-sensitive tablet thing plugged in and that i want it to respond to the pressure on the tablet. i tried doodling with the brush settings, but all i could get was a jittery line when i press hard. and, is there such a thing as pencil mode? like, you know how with a pencil, the both the opacity and the thickness of the line depend on how much you're pressing into the paper? can photoshop do that?

Axe555 ( ) posted Mon, 02 December 2002 at 8:34 PM

When you select the airbrush, paintbrush, ect. the brush dynamics button is available and lets you set the options you want. Setting the size of your brush to respond to pressure is available but not for custom brushes (in PS6 anyway) btw- Ignore the funky colors in the screenshot. My monitor is on its way out. :( Rich

Philywebrider ( ) posted Thu, 05 December 2002 at 9:44 AM

Hi I have Photoshop 7, and I can't find the wacom tablet adjustments in Photoshop. 7 has a lot of pull downs, brush, adjustments, eyc, but I can't locate wacom. The manual has one reference to wacom, but no information. Can you help?

yolkworm ( ) posted Thu, 05 December 2002 at 9:30 PM

Hmm, I've got a Wacom tablet & have used it with PS 4, 6, & 7. They all just simply recognize that the tablet is there. You have to use the Wacom control panel to manipulate the driver settings -- there are no such controls in PS that I know of.

Heronheart ( ) posted Fri, 06 December 2002 at 9:14 AM

You need to download the latest driver from Wacom. When I first installed PS 7, it wouldn't recognize the tablet until I downloaded the driver. -Ken Heronheart-

ReX ( ) posted Tue, 10 December 2002 at 8:17 PM

if your tablet already works in photoshop then I dought that you'll need new drivers. Select Airbrush mode (1) Each special brush tool has a control drop down box for the air brush. This has to be set to pen pressure for the sensitivity to kick in.(2)