Su_liam: thakns so much for that! Wonderfully, wonderfully helpful! That's just great of you to post that!
Su_liam: thakns so much for that! Wonderfully, wonderfully helpful! That's just great of you to post that!
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Thank you for the kind words Pyrandon. I owe so much to this little group and to the guy at zombienirvana.com that it's good to feel as if I might be giving a tiny measure back.
I'm really liking the ability to quickly and easily change the landforms simply by changing the pattern in the texture part of the bevel and emboss effect.
Doing it again, I'd probably do the mountains as a selection mask like I did the river, so I could apply a subtle cloud shading with a couple shades of gold or brown or greyish. That would also increase my ability to go back and recolor parts. I could see a virtuoso photoshop artist(not me) doing almost all painting in grayscale in alpha channels.
This has kind of gotten away from my wacom tablet(which I still love), but many of those little squiggles I made would have been a whole lot more difficult without benefit of that pressure sensitive stylus.
I've been trying to get a better feel for my stylus by using it for a lot of my computer work, instead of the mouse. I've gotten to where I can successfully click without dragging most of the time, and my pointer pretty reliably goes where I expect it to when I put stylus to pad. It's still a little inconvenient and without a scroll wheel it will never replace my mouse, but I am getting the feel for a new tool. My wife is a pro with the pressure sensitivity, I think her calligraphy experience tells.
OK- spill the secret for that one. I have to keep alternating between tablet and mouse because of my complete inability to click without moving....possibly the way I am holding the stylus?Originally Posted by su_liam
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Well, it's not 100% reliable. Beyond just practicing till my hand is permanently into a painful cramping claw, I don't know of any secret.
One thing that helps a little when I'm not on photoshop is to use the eraser end; it seems a little less sensitive :shrug:. All my teachers tried to teach me how to hold a pencil the "Right Way®" without success. Maybe there's an upside to the way I hold my pencil. Or maybe it's the effect of having my knuckles rapped with a ruler for years on end... Catholic school rocks... and stuff. I know the way I hold a pen certainly wakes up the carp in my tunnels.
Hm? That sounds a little dirty...
Oh! Try reducing tip sensitivity in the Pen Tablet control panel. I don't know the Windows(©Microsoft, Inc.®) way of doing that, but there would have to be some equivalent driver preferences or settings panel.. Might help.
I don't understand. I haven't had this problem at all. Are you clicking with the tip or are you using the side button on the stylus?
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Clicking with the tip.
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I think I understand the problem: you thunk the tip down and it skitters across the surface a little. The only solution I know is practice. I've found the softer my touch gets, the less I have the problem. This is my observation from less than two weeks of constant use.
Interesting... Do you have an acetate sheet covering the writing surface? Maybe that is why I haven't had that problem. I got the sheet with the tablet since it was part of their special edition series so I don't know if it is standard or not. It definitely gives a different feel than drawing directly on the normal surface.
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I think the issue is that when I press down with the tip it registers as a "click-drag" with the OS rather than just a click.
For example, I find it very hard to select a node in Inkscape without moving that node (as if I had click-dragged).
It could be related to the way I hold the stylus/wrist mechanics. Do you hold your pen angled or vertical?
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