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Tap. Tap. Tap. That’s probably a sound you are getting used to if you are using a Wacom tablet, a fantastic ergonomic alternative to a mouse! And Wacom tablets work hand in hand with many Photoshop features. Let’s talk about one of those features- pen pressure.
You may have encountered this in a drop down list before and scratched your head. What does pen pressure have to do with anything? Well in Photoshop when you are using a Wacom tablet, it can make a WORLD of difference! So are you ready? Let’s learn about it!
Start with a new document or background image. I opened up a background so that we can see what’s going on as we experiment with pen pressure.
We are going to try out the pen pressure using a soft round paint brush. Choose your paint brush tool from your tool palette. I chose a soft brush set at a size of 100. Once you have your brush selected, let’s open up the brush palette and make some changes. You can open your brush palette by going to Window>Brushes.
When you installed your Wacom tablet, this may have caused the Photoshop default brush setting to change automatically to PEN PRESSURE when we look at the Shape Dynamics tab on the Brush Palette.
For this example let’s pull down the drop down menu and set it to OFF so that we can see what a paint stroke would look like with NO Pen Pressure.
Now on a new layer above your background, make a paint brush stroke.
Notice how the size and width of the stroke does not change from beginning to end of the stroke.
Now let’s make some changes on in our brush palette. While in the Shape Dynamics tab still, change the drop down menu from OFF to PEN PRESSURE. Again on a new layer make a brush stroke. This time start the stroke by lightly dragging your pen across your tablet and increase pressure as you go.
See the difference? You can experiment with how hard or softly you push down on the pen and also with the size of the brush. Have fun playing with pen pressure and enjoy your Wacom Tablet!
For some reason, that doesn’t work for me. I’m using Photoshop CS4 and a new Bamboo Fun Pen & Touch and Photoshop doesn’t register variations in the pressure. :((( Any ideas why?
It looks like the minimum diameter must be set at 0 for you to be able to see the pen pressure work.
It looks like the minimum diameter must be set at 0 for you to be able to see the pen pressure work.
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Marcie_H, indeed the minimum diameter should be set to 0!
Thank you v ery helpful.
Marcie_H, indeed the minimum diameter should be set to 0!
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I have Elements 5.0 and my pen pressure worked before (somehow, I have no idea, which bugged me). I recently reinstalled it and I keep trying to make the pen pressure work, which it won’t. It also doesn’t help that I don’t have a brush panel or at least one I can’t find.
Can ANYBODY help me figure out how to get pen pressure to work in Elements 5.0?
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