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Utilizing the side switch buttons - Wacom Tutorial
From the course: Wacom Essential Training
Utilizing the side switch buttons
- When using the Wacom pen, you've literally got a pair of convenient, customizable controls at your fingertip. The side switches. There are a lot of different ways to employ this pair of buttons. And you can get pretty creative in what functionality you assign to them. In this video we'll take a look at how these easily accessed controls can be utilized. I'm going to start off by talking about how you hold this in your hand. You'd think that's basic (laughs) stuff. But what happens for some people is that they seem to hit the buttons unintentionally and as a result, they'll pop up some control that they've assigned the keyboard shortcut to for that button and one way you can get around that is if you rotate this 90 degrees in your hand, you can use your thumb to do these. Now some people may look at this and this is exactly backwards and looks very cumbersome so whatever way you want to use it is possible. I've even seen people turn it the other way and use it. I'm old school and I…
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Setting up the Intuos Pro3m 11s
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Utilizing the Wacom Desktop Center4m 5s
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Setting up the tablet for handedness2m 31s
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Using the Wacom property pane4m 7s
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Taking Advantage of ExpressKeys7m 12s
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Utilizing the side switch buttons3m 22s
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Using precision mode4m 57s
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Improving interaction10m 30s
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Using the touch ring6m 12s
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Saving multiple settings with utility3m 41s
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