Still not understanding Photoshop and touch screens

[moniqueq44024423]

I've never attempted to do anything with Photoshop on a touch screen so I never realized this was an issue.. but I just got a stylus thinking it would help my work. I can't do anything with it on the canvas, though. Clicking from layer to layer, choosing a tool, and clicking on the menu options work with the stylus but as soon as I try to draw or anything else, it doesn't respond. Am I reading correctly that only certain laptops/tables work? I'm not the most tech savvy person, so easy to understand language, please!

PS. I have an ASUS flipbook and a Lenovo flip and a Mixoo sylus. It doesn't work on either laptop.

[Chuck Uebele]

It sounds like those combination don't work. PS will work with other touchscreens and styli, such as Microsoft's Surface Pro laptops. PS will work as you described on those other touchscreens with finger gestures, so it sounds like PS, or your OS, or whatever drivers you're using isn't recognizing that what you're using is a stylus.

[Trevor.Dennis]

I guess you could look at Preferences > Tools > Gestures.

Windows systems need 8.1 or 10 for gestures to work, but I would thing that you are bound to have Windows 10.

Touch gestures in Photoshop

[rockcity2016]

Chuck, Trevor,

I am trying to answer a similar question: Is it possible to use PS CC with a Wacom pen tablet and a Multi touch monitor at the same time. 

E.g., with my right hand I'm drawing with a pen on the tablet and with my left I'm controlling PS via the multi-touch monitor concurrently.

The best response I got was "it should work..." in the below thread.

Which is great and heartwarming, until you buy a $5k monitor and... it doesn't work.

Re: Multi-Touch Screen for PS CC 2015. Will it work?

[ronjrongey]

I had this same issue. I have a Planar HD touch screen monitor and was advised to acquire a capacitive stylus. I am also operating in Windows 10. I dealt with adobe IT for two hours where he saw that neither the stylus, nore my finger would work for the paint and drawing tools,  then he closed out the work order with no result. On the off chance I tried it with the paint tool in Illustrator and it works! I opened, rastrized and saved the Photoshop file as a psd and now I'm cooking.