P: Inverting Pressure Input/Custom Pressure Curves for Painting

Mix control is inverted in literally every other painting program.  C'mon adobe, your painting support is terrible.  These features are standard these days.

CC 2017? Are you kidding? 

Posted 4 years ago (((

Please, please, please, PLEASE. It's the only thing that's keeping me from making the switch from Manga Studio. The ONLY thing. ...Well, there's also the really nice "Close and Fill" tool, and then there's the adjustable brush smoothing, but... I'm getting way off track.

My point is, this is a really make-or break feature for me. I got a Surface Pro 3 because I can't afford a Cintiq yet, and while it certainly is more convenient to use than my old brick of a laptop, it can be really hard to get the pressure heavy enough. I have to use a lot of force (which causes the screen to freak out a little) just to get, for example, a heavy opacity when it's controlled by pen pressure. This is fixable with MS's customized curves; all I have to do is pull the point at which max output is applied to a lower input level. You can also control the curves for and have almost any setting controlled by any combination of angle, velocity, and of course, pressure, among a few others.

Photoshop really, really needs to get on the ball with this. I haven't seen many improvements to the brush customization options in years, and that's depressing. Please, please take a page out of Smith Micro's book and let us painters use your software without all this fuss. Once I hear about such improvements, I'll start subscribing to CC so I can use it on my Surface. Until then, I'll have to stick to Manga Studio. 😞

I agree completely, the mix slider feels backwards because it restricts flow as it's increased. That is logical but it feels limiting because high mix yields a soft influence. It should be a light press or at least have the option to invert it.

I've been using pen tilt to compensate but it's pretty wacko.

Can someone explain why the brush control panel DOESN'T look and work like this?

This would eliminate so much frustration wrestling to get brushes to do what I want them to. I frequently want very different sensitivity curves on different aspects- sometimes even reversed from what the programmers at adobe apparently consider to be the only way anyone would ever want it to work.

At the moment, only hours of tinkering with strange dual-brush/texture combinations can even come close to mimicking the functionallity this would allow me to set up in a matter of seconds.

I've actually been trying to find a python script that does almost exactly what you describe here for ages, and never been able to find one- I've been considering learning python scripting just to be able to fix the problem myself. XD

I want to see this added, like, yesterday.