Another Pen Pressure Thread

[gredgie]

Before I begin I want to clarify that:

1) I've turned off the Tablet Input Panel Service thing.
2) I'm 99% sure that it's not so much the pen pressure thwarting me, but some aspect of Windows.

Either way, I basically have purely Opacity set to adjust with Pen Pressure. On the little Wacom Tablet properties test-pad, the brush size increases and decreases with pressure nicely, no worries.

But in Photoshop, every time my Pen is detected as touching the wacom tablet, I get those Windows rings circling round the cursor and EVEN IF I'm effectively lightly-tickling the tablet with my Pen (such pressure that would SURELY result in a low opacity line), there is a high chance that either Windows... or Photoshop... just decides that i'm gouging my Pen into my tablet and gives me a solid black line.

Back on Vista, I recall this issue... but I might be dreaming that I recall it. I've heard some conflicts surrounding Windows 7 (which I'm on now) but I'm unsure if this issue is just a simple "Ahh you haven't done X" problem or is actually down to Windows 7.

Any help would be awesome, for my sanity alone :P

[Arshes Nei]

If you're in windows 7 you also may want to turn off the Pen Flicks or the Pen and Touch service if you're not using a Bamboo touch. Also, make sure you're using the latest drivers for the tablet.

[gredgie]

Can't see either of those in the Services list.
It's annoying to troubleshoot since on my old Vista 32bit laptop I was on CS2, now with 64bit Win7 and CS4 it could be anything.

I'm just so sure that Photoshop never use to do the Windows rings around the brush cursor when tablet contact was detected.

[Arshes Nei]

It's not so much the services but something found in the Control Panel itself in Windows 7

Seen here: http://www.aspecttechnologies.net/wp-uploads/www.aspecttechnologies.net//2009/06/control-panel-fingerprint-data-snip.png
http://www.aspecttechnologies.net/wp-uploads/www.aspecttechnologies.net//2009/06/control-panel-fingerprint-data-snip.png

[gredgie]

Hmm, well I discovered the Tablet PC Settings Control Panel item, but nothing in there seemed to spark me as the reason it's not acquiring the pressure.

You know, it's almost like sometimes it knows it's a pen... and the times it disregards pressure it thinks i'm clicking a mouse...

Yet the tablet is seemingly in non-mouse mode since if I took the pen off the top, then started it from the bottom of the tablet, the cursor would jump to the bottom of the screen accordingly (where as in mouse-mode it would just stay at the top).

Edit: Turns out it was CS4 being funky. I tried CS3 and it's perfect. Guess there's not a great deal I'll miss in CS4 anyway. Now, finally time to get some drawing done! *happiness* Cheers for your help Arshes!

[Viridis]

I'm having the same problem: no pen pressure at all.

I have an Intuos2 and Windows 7 x32. I turned off pen flicks in the control panel, but still no luck. I've tried both Photoshop CS2 and CS4, and if anything CS4 is even more sluggish and slow (and still no pen pressure).

I installed the latest driver (613-5), too.

What else can I do?