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I love the new SP4 pen, but I've noticed the pen pressure is not consistent. The biggest problem is that paint brush strokes in Photoshop don't taper smoothly when drawing. I tired using the SP4 pen on my Surface Pro 3 and it doesn't have any problem. Here is a screen capture of what I'm talking about.
Since the pen isn't the problem I'm assuming it's a calibration issue with the Surface Pro 4. I downloaded new Wintab drivers to see if that would solve the problem (got the idea from this thread about pen problems).
It's not just Photoshop. The actual Surface pen pressure app has the same problem. It's harder to see because the brush strokes are thinner, but there is a much faster tapering happening than there is on the Surface Pro 3. Here is a screen cap:
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Hey Everyone!
Thanks for all the feedback!
As some of you have already noticed, on July 14th, 2016, we released an update to the Surface Touch Driver that should significantly improve the pen tapering and pressure experience that this thread talks about.
For more information on the 7/14 update, you can go here.
If you experience any difficulty downloading or installing updates, please check the Troubles installing Surface and Windows updates article for assistance.
Thanks!
Zachary
But, Photoshop doesn't have pressure sensitivity at all without wintab
: Y
Am I missing something here?
(Also I'm using 64, would that make a difference?)
I've been fiddling with the Pen and Touch settings in control panel (changing double click distance, turning off right click) and it has some effect. If I find a set of numbers that fix it for the most part I will screenshot it. But, we shouldn't have to be messing about with those setting to get things to work properly >_>'''
Hum, that is strange...
Did you delete the PSUserConfig.txt file?
I searched my computer, I don't seem to have that file. What/where is it?
Well i purchased a second surface pen to have a spare and to play with the different tips. Well guess what. I switched the pen tip to H which is a harder tip and well id say all the problems were solved by just changing the tip. No more issues making figure eights with parts skipping. No more weird tapering issues either. I think the problem is that the core of the "softer" tips is rubber which is absorbing some of the pressure and causing a skipping problem. I would suggest getting a pen tip kit and see if it helps you guys. I know changing the tip in my case was like night and day. I still like the feel of the softer tips that grip the screen more but a trade off is the pressure and skipping areas where you think it should be drawing. The harder tip just does not have this problem. I would suggest the softer tip maybe for controlled lines that you are going to have a little pressure behind them and i would suggest the harder tip for fast light strokes as it does not seem to skip a beat with the harder tip but you do loose that fine grippy detail you can do with the softer tip. So now that i have 2 pens i have one with a hard tip and one with a soft tip. This way i can just swap pens depending on the work i am doing. Hope this helps you.
