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Graphic tablet and pen pressure

Graphic tablet and pen pressure - Photoshop Tutorial

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Graphic tablet and pen pressure

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- [Instructor] We've now covered all important brush settings and every setting you saw so far can actually be used no matter if you're using a mouse or a graphic tablet but there's one aspect of the brush settings that is only available to you if you use a graphic tablet or a pen display because in both cases, the pen does not only send its position to Photoshop but also the amount of pressure you put on it and this pressure value can be used to control the brush settings in Photoshop. Let's have a look at some examples to see how this works. So, if we look into the Shape Dynamics, for example, we see that we can introduce a size jitter which randomly changes the size of our brush tip. But we also find this little pull-down menu here which is labeled Control and which is currently set to Off. If we expand it, we find different options here and the one that interests us at the moment is Pen Pressure. If we activate it, take a look at the brush stroke preview below here, it already…

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