Adding a Wacom tablet to Photoshop

DN
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DS_Nelson
Apr 16, 2004
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I’ve had an Intuos 2 4×5 tablet sitting on the shelf, and I finally got around to installing it on a computer that already had Photoshop CS installed on it. I’m just wondering if Photoshop detects the tablet on startup and configures itself accordingly, or are there some settings that I need to manually change to take full advantage of the tablet? Also, are there any settings in the Wacom Control Panel that should be tweaked?

The bundled software that came with the tablet included a Photoshop brush set, but the brush engine in CS seems so comprehensive, I’m not sure if the Wacom brushes are really needed. Maybe I’ll give those a try later.
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Helen_Polson
Apr 16, 2004
Hi Dan 🙂 If you go into the Wacom driver, you can add Photoshop to the list (using the "Add application to list" button). That means that you can tweak the Wacom to work slightly differently in Photoshop compared to any other program (e.g. with more of a tilt, or a more sensitive eraser). If you go through the control panel setting things like your double click speed, that should be all you need to do. Let me know how you get on 🙂
DN
DS_Nelson
Apr 16, 2004
OK, thanks Helen! I’ll give it a try.
JH
Jake_Hannam
Apr 16, 2004
I have a related question and perhaps someone knows. I am trying to get a Calcomp Drawingslate (very old!) to work on my son’s computer with Photoshop 7.0. Isn’t there a ‘scratchpad’ or something similar in Photoshop that you can use to tell Photoshop about the tablet? If there is, I can’t find it.

I have an Intuos on my CS and there is no problem but can’t seem to get Photoshop to use the Calcomp properly.

Thanks.
Jake

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