Sep 07, 2014 No Pressure Sensitivity in Krita. Wacom & Windows 7. Photoshop, & Gimp. I was not getting any pressure sensitivity in any of those and the buttons on my tablet and pen did not work properly. Anyways hope this helps anyone that may have the same issue. Eventually, I somehow added an odd offset that only happened to pen while on the. PSA Wacom MobileStudio Pro Buglist. So I plugged it in, booted up, and the pen did't work. Neither did the buttons. After sleeping and waking, the pen is now able to click, but its buttons are useless. Weirdly enough, I still have pen pressure, so at least something still works. Pro Pen 2 not recognizing pressure sensitivity in Photoshop.
Here's the Artisul Pencil Sketchpad review that I've postponed for a long time. I actually received two tablets from 4 months ago in December. The reason why I took so long is because I wanted to wait and see if there are going to be driver updates to solve the issues that you'll read about later. I've waited too long and decided to finally just put out this review and move on.Artisul is a company from Taiwan. If you don't already know, I've reviewed two other products from them, the and pen digitizer displays.
The D10 and D13 are good products. So when Artisul asked if I'm interested to check out their new Artisul Pencil Sketchpad, I said sure.Unfortunately, the Artisul Pencil isn't as good as I expected.
Build qualityThe packaging is cute. It's a see-through packaging box that allows you to see the product inside. The stylus is actually designed to look like a yellow hexagonal pencil. The target market perhaps is not the same as those looking at the Wacom Intuos Pro.The build quality doesn't impress me. The drawing surface is a one thick matte surface plastic board pasted onto foam. For some reason, it reminds me instantly of beer coasters. The huge piece of foam does a good job preventing the tablet from slipping.My first instinct when holding the tablet was to try to bend it to see how durable it is.
That was when I saw a sticker behind that says you should not bend or fold the 'sketchpad'. I didn't bend it of course. It would damage the electronics hidden between the foam.The bottom line is this tablet feels cheap.
I guess the upside is, it's much lighter compared to other tablets so if you need to bring this around, you probably won't even feel its weight when it's in your bag. It so light you can use it like a hand fan. DesignSince the small tablet has the USB port at the top, I have to put my keyboard by the side so that the cable doesn't get in the way.The medium tablet with the USB port by the side, so I can either put the keyboard by the side or at the top.
However because the shortcut buttons are actually protruding out, I find myself pressing the top left button frequently by accident.The light strip in the middle of the shortcut buttons that would pulse with blue lighting. When the pen hovers over, it turns blue. PenThe pen is designed like a hexagonal pencil and feels good to hold. It is made of hard plastic and comes with two buttons on the side and an eraser at the back. It is not battery powered so it does not require charging.The size and weight is just right. It supports 2048 levels of pressure sensitivity.
Driver settingsThe driver allows you to assign shortcuts to the pen's buttons, and change pressure sensitivity.You can also customize keyboard shortcuts to the physical shortcut buttons.The connection is via a micro-USB to USB cable. The tablet also comes with some replaceable nibs and a nib remover. PerformanceI've tested the tablet with Windows and Mac and it's a mixed bag for me.I like the feeling of the pen tip on the drawing area. It has a very tactile feel to it.
It has even more texture compared to the Wacom or Huion tablets. It's not textured to the extent that I think it would wear off the tip fast.The tablet is responsive and has no lag.Where the problems start is when you actually use the tablet. Let me start with Windows first.WindowsI'm using Windows 7 with Service Pack 1 by the way.With Photoshop CS5, it is difficult to get a stroke with consistent width. In the screenshot above, look out for the variations in thickness for the strokes on the left. It is as if the pressure is change ever so slightly all the time when I was drawing. I do not have this problem with other brands of tablets.
Even with plugin turned on, I wasn't able to get the slight variations in thickness. And I wasn't able to get the strokes to taper to a sharp point as I lift the pen.Performance with Photoshop CC 2017 is much better. I no longer have the problem with varying pressure sensitivity, and was able to taper the stroke sharply. And strokes overall are smoother.Adobe Illustrator, and all work perfectly. There are no issues with the strokes.The biggest problem I've faced is the pen would just stop working after a period of time. I'm not sure of the exact amount of time because I do not keep track.
If you can complete your work before it stops working, great. If not, the only way I know of to get it to work again is to restart the computer. It's very likely to be a driver problem.Plugging the USB cable in and out will disable the tablet. To get it working again, you have to restart the computer, again.I'm using Windows 7 and there's a problem with dragging and dropping. I can click and hold a file, drag it to another folder, and the cursor will freeze before it reaches the destination folder. It's very irritating so the work around is Ctrl+X and Ctrl+V.MacHere are the issues on Mac at a glance:Photoshop CS5: Inconsistency with the pressureIllustrator CS5: PressureAffinity Photo: Inconsistency with the pressureMedibang Paint Pro: Works fineKrita: Wobbly diagonal linesTayasui Sketches Pro: Works fineMischief: Inconsistency with the pressureMedibang Paint Pro works fine.Mischief seems to have some issues with the pressure sensitivity.
It's the same problem I face with Photoshop CS5 on Windows.Another issue is when I tried drawing diagonal lines with a ruler, the lines aren't perfectly straight. The diagonal lines wobbles slightly. This is the type of wobble commonly seen in screen display tablets so I'm really surprised to see the problem here. ConclusionSo I did not have a good experience using the Artisul Pencil tablets.If you're using the latest version of Adobe software, there probably isn't going to be much issues. The potential deal breaker for me is, with Windows, the pen would stop working after a period of time, and there's no obvious way to get it working again short of rebooting the system.The accuracy of the tablet is also questionable.I probably won't recommend this to digital artists who are serious with their work. If you just need a tablet for clicking instead of drawing, then maybe you can consider this but even so at the same price, you can get, unless you really need the tablet to be really lightweight in which case this is unbeatable.
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Hello,I'm shopping around for my first drawing-display - but I'm trying to do it on a budget so I'm looking at a lot of non-Wacom brands. I've used drawing-tablets for a while now and know that both driver and software support can be pretty hit-or-miss, especially with these less common manufacturers.I'm aware of the difference in hardware on these display-tablets and not looking so much for a comparison of color or contrast or ghosting between them. I'm mostly interested in knowing if pressure-sensitivity works in Affinity Designer with each of these particular tablet drivers.I'd like to know if any of you have experience with any of these brands and how well they work with Affinity Designer.Parblo.Artisul.XP-Pen/Ugee.HUIONI did use the search bar before writing up this post, of courseI know the Parblo Coast pressure sensitivity might not work according to - does anyone know if this is still the case or has the issue been resolved yet? I'm really leaning towards getting a Parblo display, but this would really suck if it didn't work in ADCouldn't find any posts confirming pressure sensitivity worked with ArtisulXP-Pen is rebranded Ugee hardware, I believe - and according to their driver completely froze AD. Is this still the case?
If not, does pressure-sensitivity work now too?And lastly, it sounds like Huion - might- work but couldn't find confirmation regarding pressure-sensitivity. I know from other software experience that Huion is generally likely to be supported - however it is at the bottom of my list-I've got open-ears to other brands of similarly priced drawing-displays, however of the ones I have seen these 4 or 5 seem to be the most bang-for-your buck and also most current. Hi, sonicbomb77I have a Huion wh1409 paired w. The pressure sensitivity is decent. The response time is good. Very small lag.
The surface is rather slick, and unlike drawing on paper. I have medium bad arthris, so do not get quite the exact line weight I would like.My daughter tried it out, found the response comparable to what she gets w. Her Surface tablet. She thought it would be worth recommending to a friend who did not have a tablet.I have since bought an iPad and Apple pencil. Better performance, but the pencil alone cost almost as much as the Huion. And I bought a 'paper=like' surface for the iPad. Still slick, but not glass like.
Hello,I am new to this forum and just loaded the 10 day Trial version of Affinity Photo to test with my new Huion GT-191 Graphic Pen Tablet, which is the same type mentioned by Sonicbomb77 so I figured I'd give my experience with pressure sensitivity here so it might help others.When I first tried the paint brush tool, it worked but no pressure sensitivity, (the line was the same thickness no matter how hard I pressed the pen on the screen), so I went looking for any setting that might help. Do you have for a chance 'E' key set in your tablet driver control panel, set to delete, in any of the pen device buttons, or tablet buttons? As other than a software bug, what I am thinking of (which is kind of a bug too, unsure if Affinity or tablet related, or in their combination) is that the tablet could be 'understanding' separating the pen as an 'action', which triggers the programmed key, surely 'e' key.
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If i were in your shoes, I'd try to (for the sake of eliminating factors, mostly) reset/delete that key in all software configs in your driver (I am a Wacom user, and long since I used non wacom tablets), VERY specially if you have it in your STANDARD, main general settings, at least in Wacom, you have a general setting, and then specific settings per application (which should override general ones but NOT ALWAYS happens).EDIT: An easier test would be to set a different key in Affinity other than 'E' and restart Affinity. But might not be conclusive. This is all a shot in the dark, but is what I'd try (first this easy method, if does not work, the above explained).as I can't see other solution at user level.Weird as it sounds, the bug could be caused for that. So, disabling it would be a first step to find a solution (and probably a good clue to developers)Also, very stupid thing I'm thinking of, but I've seen it happening in companies. Sometimes side tablet buttons in the tablet margins are over sensitive.be sure that you are not triggering those with your resting hand.Last thing I can think of: Some drivers DO assign gestures to actions.
Just like one can set side button to be ctrl + z, a pinch, a fast circling gesture (maybe you do certain gesture by habit when separating the pen), and is somehow programmed by default in the driver to activate the eraser.Well that wasn't the last. If some other drawing app, driver, or anything special for the pen is resident in memory or active, try to fully eliminate it (even as a process in the task manager, if you are on Windows) to see if is some sort of weird conflict.My strongest bet is fidling with your huion driver control panel settings, as if is a Affinity bug with the Huion (I believe they have tested to work Huions, dunno what model), you can't solve that one, anyway.