Help + Wacom Bamboo Pen and Touch + pressure sensitivity + photoshop

~StevenBishop Jun 22, 2012

Hello everyone reading this. This is my first post.

Like many of us so often do, i went to the efforts of purchasing a Wacom product to draw and paint up some cool concepts as an alternative to pencil and paper, its good to switch media now and then, the Bamboo Pen and Touch to be exact one of the cheaper models not that it matters.

With photoshop ive been write through the Brushes palette or F5 but i still cannot get my wacom to react to pressure sensitivity. If i press on the tablet lightly i get a bold brush stroke when it should be a light opac brush stroke, without having to manually change the brush opacity.

(Has anybody been through his before ?? and beat this beginner hickup) If you cant work with proper pressure sensitivity you cant really blend colour and create values and get that nice painterly look

Any help is greatly appreciated, about this problem or your personal work flow and or settings believe me Thanks.

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=Shadowsprint Jun 22, 2012 Student General Artist

Expanding on Mee-kii's post:

If you go into the brush tab/menu, where it says stuff like shape dynamics, transfer etc, you can also set those things to pen pressure as well. I would advise clicking on these sections and experimenting. Settings I use:
Shape Dynamics > Size Jitter > Pen Pressure
Transfer> Opacity Jitter > Pen Pressure

^That means the harder I press, the bigger the brush and the harder it is. The lighter I press, the small the brush is and the more faded the brush is.

Hope that helps a little bit

~StevenBishop Jun 23, 2012

thanks Shadow Spirit im going to try your work flow settings, this looks promising

~mee-kii Jun 22, 2012

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You should have at least that button pressed down to enable your tablet to control the size of the brush with pen-pressure sensitivity (it actually does opacity too imo - the version in the screenshot is CS5). And in your Bamboo preferences, you can play around with 'soft' and 'firm' tip feels to figure out what you like best when you draw. Hope this solves your problem.

~StevenBishop Jun 23, 2012

Thanks alot this may be the answer im looking for, I cannot find that button anywhere is cs3, is what im using. can you please tell me what the button is called as you mouse over it.

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