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Well, I just hooked up my old Bamboo tablet (the medium size) and downloaded the new drivers. The reports of issues with the pen tablet are well founded. For me I have several issues…
1. If you press to hard on the pen you get this animated ring and then a brush adjustment dialog pops up. I hate this thing but can’t figure out how to turn it off. If this is supposed to be useful it isn’t at least not for me, it is so annoying. I don’t know if this is a Photoshop thing or a Wacom thing but I hate it. If anyone knows of a way to turn this off please let me know.
2. The brush is very choppy when you are painting, etc. What I have noticed however is that as you paint even if you never pull the pen from the tablet surface Photoshop is creating dozens of history states as it does this Photoshop must be doing something with memory or scratch space because it is during the rapid creation of history states that it causes the pen to pause making it seem choppy. I have no idea why Adobe would set it up this way. When I create a single stroke no matter how much area I cover that should be one history state and not dozens.
I hope Adobe fixes these problems soon (asumming that number 1 is an Adobe thing, otherwise I will contact Wacom about that one) I don’t know why but it seems with each major release Adobe breaks the pen tablet support in some way or another. Until number 2 is fixed the pen is next to useless.
Robert
1. If you press to hard on the pen you get this animated ring and then a brush adjustment dialog pops up. I hate this thing but can’t figure out how to turn it off. If this is supposed to be useful it isn’t at least not for me, it is so annoying. I don’t know if this is a Photoshop thing or a Wacom thing but I hate it. If anyone knows of a way to turn this off please let me know.
2. The brush is very choppy when you are painting, etc. What I have noticed however is that as you paint even if you never pull the pen from the tablet surface Photoshop is creating dozens of history states as it does this Photoshop must be doing something with memory or scratch space because it is during the rapid creation of history states that it causes the pen to pause making it seem choppy. I have no idea why Adobe would set it up this way. When I create a single stroke no matter how much area I cover that should be one history state and not dozens.
I hope Adobe fixes these problems soon (asumming that number 1 is an Adobe thing, otherwise I will contact Wacom about that one) I don’t know why but it seems with each major release Adobe breaks the pen tablet support in some way or another. Until number 2 is fixed the pen is next to useless.
Robert
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