Surface Pro Pen pressure sensitivity is not working in photoshop CS6.

I was in Best Buy today to look at the Surface Pro. Not only did they NOT have it's stylus there with the demo model, the salespeople were insisting that ANY stylus would work and it WASN'T pressure sensitive at all. I know that it is (in theory), but the Best Buy people were so clueless, they thought it wasn't even a feature. Way to sell a product!

That sounds like Best Buy all right! They'll say anything rather than admit 'I don't know'.

>don't know if it has anything to do with their contract with Wacom in order to avoid hurting the sells of Cintiq product line or they just don't think people would care to use that pen in some popular apps until you guys brought it up. I don't know,

So either they are conspiring with Wacom or are arrogantly dismissive of their customers, or possibly too cheap to pay licensing fees for Wintab (I've seen references to that issue but not sure if it is true). Either way, it paints MS rather poorly at a time when they seemed to really be focusing on quality and customer value. This is not a brand new issue that MS can claim to be surprised by. I was expecting better for the Surf Pro. I think in time MS will get it right, but the those damned 'first impressions' have a way of sticking, and MS surely is cognizant of that danger. This whole affair reeks.

Hello everyone.

As Barb mentioned we are working closely with Wacom on a solution and we will provide additional updates as soon as more information is available. Thank you for your patience.

Best regards.

This is good news. Implementing the older win tab libraries integrated with the new MS ones will yield the best solution to meet demands for the pen working in not only Photoshop but a host of other applications that all respond to the wintab library. It should also open the door for better pen compatibility in the future too. Maybe we'll one day get tilt and rotation support too but for now I'd be happy with pressure sensitivity. But I must give props to the developers of the MS libraries that handle the palm blocking feature. That's been a problem with all tablets up till now. I understand that it's based on Wacoms electromagnetic resonance technology that they use in the Cintiq Touch devices. Nicely implemented in the surface. I won't be taking mine back. I know the hardware is perfectly capable and the software will catch up soon. I appreciate the response though. Please keep us posted!

I really appreciate the palm blocking on the recently updated version of OneNote... it works fantastically on my N-Trig Sony Duo 11 and probably just as well with Surface Pro. I had it at a conference this week and was able to take notes finally without *any* worries of what my palm was doing ... just writing. I want this feature in all inking applications now.

Or Paint Tool SAI.