Wacom tablet and Photoshop CS

[LKJohnson@adobeforums.com]

Okay, this may be a dumb question.

Finally, upgraded to System OS X and Photoshop CS, downloaded the latest driver for my wacom tablet. Works fine except that I can't find the pen control settings for the brushes and other tools in Photoshop CS. I'm stuck on the size setting and I'd like to use my pen for some opacity effects. Thanks for any help.

[Buko@adobeforums.com]

Have you read the fine manual??

Did you look in the well??

[LKJohnson@adobeforums.com]

Never mind. Found it.
I had read the help before but didn't realize that I needed to highlight the brush preset, not just click on it. Thanks anyway

[Rick_Stare@adobeforums.com]

I'd like to use my pen for some opacity effects




Most of the common Photoshop brushes (Hard Round and Soft Round) are set up so that the pen pressure will vary the brush diameter, but the Airbrushes (they are right after the Soft Round brushes in the default set) are set up so that the pen pressure will always vary the opacity instead of the diameter.

You can change any of this behavior yourself in the Brushes palette. In the Shape Dynamics section notice that the Size Control is set to Pen Pressure for the common brushes, but you can turn this off or select other settings. To get opacity control, look in the Other Dynamics section and set either Opacity Control or Flow Control to Pen Pressure.

Setting the Opacity or Flow control to Fade will give a fade-out over a set distance. This setting used to be much easier to access in Photoshop 5, and I still get questions from people who assume the feature was dropped in Photoshop 7.

* Rick

[Buko@adobeforums.com]

there is also a FAQ you can read.