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

So I bought a Surface Pro partly because I want a pressure sensitive stylus for use in Adobe Creative Suite 6. Adobe uses the Wintab API to detect pressure and tilt sensitivity primarily in Wacom digitizers (but anyone can implement the API). It turns out that even though the Surface Pro does use Wacom technology (Wacom pens will work with it), the drivers were not made to support the Wintab API needed to communicate pressure variables to Adobe CS6.

Is Microsoft going to update their drivers to support the pressure sensitivity API's properly?

Hello Onslaught_2000,

Sorry to hear about the feature not being active with Photoshop.

Advanced features such as Pressure or Eraser support may not be available until Adobe updates their apps to take advantage of the new Windows APIs but Photoshop absolutely runs on Surface Pro and you can use the PEN in a similar way to the mouse.

Hope this helps.

no one is questioning whether Photoshop will run on the Surface Pro. people are

discovering that with all the hoopla over the digitizer and stylus with 1000+

pressure sensitive points that marketing deliberately omitted the info that the

pressure/eraser features would not be usable with the apps that designers and

photographers use most often. do you actually think that Photoshop users will

accept using a PEN like a mouse as a substitute??

why can't Microsoft customize and provide an appropriate driver from base

drivers available from Wacom? it is soooooooooooooo unlikely that Adobe will

make updates for this.

"Advanced features such as Pressure or Eraser support may not be available until

Adobe updates their apps to take advantage of the new Windows APIs but Photoshop

absolutely runs on Surface Pro and you can use the PEN in a similar way to the

mouse. "

Barb

MVP - Windows Entertainment and Connected Home

http://digitalmediaphile.com/

Please mark as answered if this answers your question

Indeed, this is an essential feature to me. I waited in line at my local Windows Store and got a Pro the day it came out. I love it. But the pressure sensitivity (and touch pan and zoom, by the way) is essential to my hobby of digital art. Here's some of my work: http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?226429-TheGiffMan-s-Sketchbook&highlight=

I realize that Sketchbook Pro works great (though no touch pan and zoom that I can see), but there are features I need for my workflow that it simply doesn't support. I need Photoshop. That's the tool of my trade.

It looks at the moment like there is a standards war going on between Microsoft and Adobe, and we digital content creators are caught in the crossfire. This is digital heartbreak. The Surface Pro is amazing. It's an absolute dream of a computer. I really don't want to return it in 14 days, but I'll need to without this feature.

Is there any way we can have some sort of assurance, one way or another, within two weeks, so I know whether or not I must return this beautiful machine?