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December 7, 2015
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P: Finger painting/drawing support for touch screen monitors. [2015]

  • December 7, 2015
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Whaaaaaat.I'm finding it incredibly hard to believe that every graphics program supports using the brush and pen through touch screens EXCEPT for Photoshop, the Queen of them all. Am I really going to have to draw in GIMP?I'm well aware that touch screens aren't nearly as ideal as graphic tablets but really, GIMP even supports pressure sensitivity and Photoshop doesn't support anything?Please, please incorporate this feature, it should have come standard years ago.

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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    September 28, 2020

    I have an HP touchscreen computer and I use photoshop to create interior design concept boards and 3D renderings. I would like for Photoshop to integrate the benefits of using a touch screen into their design. I pay good money for a program that claims to be the best imaging editor of its time though it has yet to integrate touch into its design when tons of online designers have touch screen devices and it would save us a great deal of time using our finger rather than the mouse. PLEASE DO THIS ADOBE IT IS ABOUT TIME!! I understand you guys try and make this application for professionals therefore being innately not user friendly but this is about your customers, please help. Its the 21st century baby, time to act like it...

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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    August 21, 2020
    Adobe ! WHY IS THIS NOT FIXED !? I have ASUS 524 touch screen laptop and cant use photoshop to paint with a stylus, or fix my photos !? 

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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    December 9, 2019


    Hey, so I have an Inspirion PC that has a build in touch screen so I decided to try it out but soon found out that painting with it is basically impossible, I can click buttons and basically navigate in the whole of Photoshop but I just can ́t draw on the canvas...
    I was able to draw on it only when I pressed outside of the canvas and moved into it, only then I was abe to draw meaning thatit can work it ́s just not possible to start drawing directly onto the canvas, it would improve my life and the things I made and given it is already possible to draw on it when you move from outside of the canvas it doesen ́t seem like that big of a thing.
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    Inspiring
    February 27, 2019
    PS is a more professional piece of software. Gimp is less so. He mentioned a child using it to finger paint, so the minutia of cmyk and all that was set aside.
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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    February 27, 2019
    GIMP is great, but worth noting that (unless they've finally added it) it doesn't support CMYK or Pantone color, so it can't be used for (professional) print design. I haven't used it in a while so who knows, but worth checking before committing to it.

    It really is astounding that PS doesn't support touch screen. I posted this original topic three years ago and even at that time it was astounding.
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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    February 27, 2019
    GIMP also lets you rest your palm on the screen and it still picks up a stylus fine without making a mess under your palm.. Sucks that a free piece of software supports this seemingly without issue but paid devs cant put it into PS. 
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    Inspiring
    February 27, 2019
    Gimp supports it. It's free. I figured it would. I just downloaded it to make sure and finger painting works no problem. You can probably use a stylus and get a little more precise. Not sure about pressure senstivity, but since its GNU, there might be a way via plugin or some hardware combo or something. Check it out. 
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    IanBrettCooper
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    February 26, 2019
    This is insane! My daughter asked if she could paint using her finger on my computer. I figured it was no big deal, but apparently Photoshop doesn't allow it. Until now, I always used mouse and keyboard, but it's very disappointing that Photoshop doesn't offer this simple functionality. Can anyone recommend a similar program that does allow painting/drawing with a finger or simple non-battery stylus?
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    yakuang0
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    January 23, 2019


    The currently photoshop doesn't have full touch screen support for some (most) laptops. (It doesn't seem to work on the Lenovo Flex 5 series) Photoshop supports normal and simple touch functionality like tools, resize, etc. But for pressure sensitive task like brush and liquify, it doesn't work. It makes sense that it doesn't work because most touch screens are not pressure sensitive. But I think is a good idea to still have the touch functionality enabled so tools like brush and liquify can be used on touch screen, and having their sensitivity adjusted manually.
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    MrSchaf
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    November 14, 2018

    I have a Lenovo Laptop (Windows 10) with Touchscreen. Gestures do work, but finger painting doesn't.

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    Anonymous
    November 14, 2018

    Hi

    Finger painting is not supported in Photoshop

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