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How do you disable pen pressure?

Explorer ,
Jul 16, 2012 Jul 16, 2012

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I'm on a Mac, 10.6.8 and PS CS5 12.0.4 with a Wacom Intuos3.

I select a hard round brush and turn off the Transfer > Opacity Jitter > 'pen pressure' option. However as soon as I thouch the tip of my pen down pen pressure turns back on. This is annoying when trying to do a detailed cutout in a layer mask as it leaves behind opaque areas that aren't always visible right away.

Even if I create a new preset with pen pressure off, it comes back on once saved. So how do I get around this? There must be a way to turn off pen pressure while using the Wacom tablet. Am I missing something?

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Mentor ,
Jul 16, 2012 Jul 16, 2012

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On Windows the Wacom tablets have their own control panel.  Is this the case on MacOSX?

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Explorer ,
Jul 16, 2012 Jul 16, 2012

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Yes there is a Wacom control panel on the Mac. There are options to change the tip feel from softer to harder, but nothing to disable it completely. Good idea though, I hadn't thought to check there.

I read somewhere else to uninstall the Wacom drivers, but doing that makes the tablet pretty much usless. i.e. the pen moves slooooooow, and on a 24" monitor it's practically unusable.

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Engaged ,
Jul 16, 2012 Jul 16, 2012

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Did you try unchecking the Transfer category all together? Also do you have opacity and flow set to 100% in the brush settings on the top?

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Explorer ,
Jul 16, 2012 Jul 16, 2012

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I did try unchecking it. It gets re-checked all by itself once the pen tip hits the canvas.

Turning the opacity to 100% is another good idea, but again, when I touch the pen tip to the canvas it goes back down to zero, and the pen pressure option is reactivated.

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Engaged ,
Jul 16, 2012 Jul 16, 2012

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That is very strange; it's never happened to me. Did you try resetting the preferences on your photoshop and reinstalling the tablet?

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Explorer ,
Jul 16, 2012 Jul 16, 2012

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I'm in the middle of a work day, so I can't trash my preferences at the moment. But I did try resetting the tools preferences and that seems to have worked. (Hold cmd + option + shift on startup; alt + ctrl + shift on PC) I guess something I did with my brushes settings at some point made things funky. Now I can uncheck all the Brush Tip Shape options and use the tablet no problem.

Thank you all for the help and sugestions. I appreciate it.

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Explorer ,
Jan 01, 2016 Jan 01, 2016

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I know it's a 3 year old post, but I was having the same issue. and simply reseting photoshop tools worked! Thanks!

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LEGEND ,
Jul 16, 2012 Jul 16, 2012

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This is a complete shot in the dark, but probably worth trying as it's fairly easy...

1.  Turn off the pen pressure setting.

2.  Exit/quit Photoshop so that the settings get saved to disk.

3.  Restart Photoshop.  Check that the setting is still off.

4.  Test.

-Noel

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Contributor ,
Jul 16, 2012 Jul 16, 2012

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Two things that I can think of:

1) If you are using a custom brush, then you should be aware that any changes you do to the brush (such as turning off pen pressure or adding radial scattering) won't be saved unless you define your settings as a new brush preset.

Tiny triangle icon at the brush panel (right click on canvas when brush tool is selected) > Define new brush preset

2) This is just a guess, but it is possible that some pen tablets come with drivers (or software) that overrides other software. This is common practice with graphics cards but I've seen this trend on other types of hardware as well (such as keyboards). Is it possible that your pen tablet software/drivers are overriding whatever settings Photoshop tries to change? You can try this out by uninstalling your tablet drivers and let windows pick some default drivers for it - then try out Photoshop and see if the problem is still there.

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Guest
Jul 22, 2012 Jul 22, 2012

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OK i have windows but i hope this will work for you too (and others that might read this 😞

!Before turning on the computer, don't have the tablet connected.

1. turn on computer

2. open photoshop

3. plug in your tablet

4. draw

For some reason (at least for me), if the tablet is connected after you open Photoshop, the program doesn't recognize pen pressure anymore.

Hope it helps, let me know ^_^

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New Here ,
Mar 28, 2013 Mar 28, 2013

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Thanks Angel!

It works everytime when I follow as you described.

Thinking it is time for Adobe to pay attention.

Others have reported they only see this problem only in Photoshop...

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Community Expert ,
Jul 22, 2012 Jul 22, 2012

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If that happens again check the override settings in the tool options bar.

One overrides Opacity and the other overrides Size if they are enabled.

I guess i missed seeing this question when it was posted.

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Community Beginner ,
Jan 09, 2013 Jan 09, 2013

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We're having the problem that the button on the toolbar shown above has no effect, pressure sensitivity is on all the time no matter whether the opacity button is on or off.

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New Here ,
Jun 18, 2014 Jun 18, 2014

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Plug tablet after opening the Photoshop.

Then disable opacity and tablet control in the toolbar.

That fix the problem for me, after some agonising hours.

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New Here ,
Dec 11, 2014 Dec 11, 2014

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I was experiencing the same thing. I recently migrated to a new work system so have been having fun tracking down new quirks.

At some point, the "Pen Pressure" option had been checked in the Shape Dynamics box. Switching that and every other option to "off" seemed to resolve my issue. Looking at your screenshot, the Shape Dynamic option doesn't seem to be a factor but this could be helpful for others nonetheless.

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Community Beginner ,
May 01, 2017 May 01, 2017

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So I was confronted with a similar issue just a minute ago and found this thread.

This ist what happened and how I solved it:

I wanted to retouch using the healing brush and it kept changing size with pressure, even if I turned it off via the button in the top bar designed for this.

After trying all sorts of stuff (Wacom settings, Windows Freehand and so on) I found that on the very bottom of the brushs window (the one you get from the top bar too) there is a drop down. I changed it to not use pen pressure for size and now the buton works as it should.

The brush doesn't use pen pressure for size unless I use the button to override this setting. Even makes sense now.

I hope this can solve it for some of you.

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Community Expert ,
May 01, 2017 May 01, 2017

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More or less all tools that use a brush can be used with any of the brushes in your brush folder, and will respond to the same settings in the presets panel.  Just right click inside the document window, and select the tool that works best for your situation.  i.e.  I find a square brush is often a good choice with the eraser tool. 

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New Here ,
Aug 20, 2017 Aug 20, 2017

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Disable the Pen Pressure button from the top.

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Community Expert ,
Aug 20, 2017 Aug 20, 2017

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nagad94572858  wrote

Disable the Pen Pressure button from the top.

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New Here ,
Jan 02, 2021 Jan 02, 2021

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I had the same problem, for me going to brush settings, texture, depth jitter and then changing the control to off worked. 

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New Here ,
Jan 06, 2021 Jan 06, 2021

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I fixed it in Adobe Photoshop 2021 by going into brushes and choosing a brush from the "General" category.

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Community Beginner ,
Jan 17, 2022 Jan 17, 2022

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This is an old thread, but still an issue it seems for many. I was trying to enable and disable pen pressure for different situations in my art. In my tablet display settings, checking/unchecking windows ink seems to do things that can't be achieved with Photoshop settings. I was trying to keep the brush size in tact while using varied opacity as well, and was able to achieve this by manually using the number keys to switch opacity on the fly. 

 

Also of note, pen pressure doesn't seem to work without this windows ink box checked. 

Don't go down the rabbit hole of Photoshop brushes or you may never get anything done! Just a handy tip hehe. 

 

Good luck!

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New Here ,
Feb 06, 2024 Feb 06, 2024

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OK I've read these but it's not helping me so far. I've tried turning off transfer, changing pen pressure, changing it and turning off then back on. No mater what I seem to try transfer won't stay off, pen pressure won't stay off and that symbol up top only turns shape dynamic on and off.....help please.

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New Here ,
Feb 06, 2024 Feb 06, 2024

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OMG I FOUND IT !!! I WAS LOOKING AT THE WRONG PEN WITH CIRCLE SYMBOL!!! thanks for the person who posted that earlier I wouldn't have looked at it twice without you. *sighs with relief*

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