P: Lazy Mouse (Brush stroke smoothing)

I tested this rather quickly last night and it works as advertised. The lines I get are much smoother, especially the longer lines that are drawn slowly. This is a huge benefit I think, because my strokes look really bad normally when I go slow. This gives me more accuracy. There is however, some more lag, and much less responsive when I draw smaller lines like small circles. Then I have to go REALLY slow to let the calculation catch up. My computer is not super-powerful, and the image I tested on had a high resolution (3400 px X 3400 px). I suppose there will be less lag with a more powerful computer or a smaller image, but I haven't tested this.

There are 4 (or 5, I can't remember) standard settings and a slider which control how much smoothing is being calculated. I found it work best at the 250-setting. Disabling the smoothing requires a left-click on the symbol in Finders menu-bar, so it's really easy toggling between on/off smoothing.

An annoying bug is that the brush-size slider (and keyboard shortcut with alt+ctrl and clicking/dragging) doesn't work properly when Hej stylus is activated. I had to manually type in brush-size or click on the slider to change size. I did get the keyboard shortcut to work, but it jumps around a bit. This is my biggest gripe with this (at least so far). But doing line-work that's supposed to look like ink, I don't really change the brush size that often, I do that a lot more when painting.

Of course I can't say if this is something that will be used in the long run, and I definitely need to test this on some proper artwork before I can sing it's praises. But these are my "right out of the box"-experiences 🙂

I picked up a surface Pro 4 back in December and have been using lazy mouse with it. I wish they made it four Macintosh too since that is my primary workstation. I cannot say enough good things about the software is hard to believe that it's an ad on. Adobe should give him a bunch of million dollars and built it in.

that'd be great, thanks 🙂

I know, but this feature is important to me, so I'm willing to risk it. I'll share my experience if you like 🙂

no trial though. I would like to see how it works and if I like it before unloading 12 euros on it.there are various types of stabilization, Im not so sure I like the type this software uses.

I'm going to try this this weekend. If this works, it will be awesome 😄

Great news. Thanks for sharing...

Check this out! Hej Stylus! a Lazy Nezumi equivalent for Mac, coming very soon! http://hejstylus.com, thanks to Eilert Janßen and to Patrick Deen (maker of the awesome Animators Toolbar add-on for Photoshop) for letting me know about it 🙂

That sucks, sorry you didn't get it to work all the way!

Thanks, man! Bunches of great work on your site, BTW. I did find a partial solution with old wacom drivers. It helps about 25%. The issue with photoshop is closely tied to zoom. If I zoom to 100%: no wobble. If I open a document and don't touch the zoom: No wobbles. It's never a nice line you'd get on paper or in other software, but it's not shaky.