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rv824
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February 10, 2013
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Photoshop CS6 Brush pressure sensitivity not working on the Microsoft Surface Pro.

  • February 10, 2013
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I have just purchased a Microsoft Surface Pro in anticipation of running Photoshop on it.  I installed Photoshop and tried to do some sketches.  I created a new file and started sketching.  I Immediately felt like something was wrong.  I checked my brush settings and saw the pressure sensitivity was not available.  Everytine I tried to turn it on it was marked with an exclamation point. 

Does anybody know if Adobe is supporting the new pressure sensitive pen from microsoft, or if there is some sort of setting that I am missing?  I have tried sketchbook pro 2011, and that works amazingly well with the pen.  I hope someone can help me along here, because if this tablet can truely run photoshop, it would be a Game Changer.

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Correct answer Chris Cox

Microsoft is aware of the problem with their driver software.

Many other applications (not just Adobe's) are also affected.

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inpec
Participant
December 9, 2018

Finally Microsoft solve the problem with WinTab drivers

Download Surface Pro 4 Drivers and Firmware from Official Microsoft Download Center

(All current software, firmware, and drivers for the Surface Pro 4; including optional WinTab drivers.)

Wintab_x32_1.0.0.20.zip

Wintab_x64_1.0.0.20.zip

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Anonymous
October 22, 2017

Hi

I connect my Pc and my Microsoft Surface Pro 4 together with Splashtop software. Everything is ok, butif I want to use my Ps Cs6 CC on my Surface Pro I cant use my Surface pro pen to drawing!!!! Do nothing!!!!!!

I installed the Wintab 64 to my Pc and to my Surface Pro to, but the problem is same. I cant use my Surface Pro with my Pc Photoshop:(!!!!

Why?!!! What can I do? Somebody can help me with this issue? Or in this way its not possible to use Surface Pro?

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pschibli
Participant
October 11, 2017

I had the same problem with Photoshop CS6 on my HP Spectre x360. After doing some research I was able to download the Wintab driver for the Surface Pro 3 and use it on your HP spectre. Install and restart photoshop and it should hopefully work for you too -

Download - Wintab_x64_1.0.0.20.zip

Download Surface Pro 3 from Official Microsoft Download Center

Good luck,

Phil

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Anotnoy Oxy
Participant
March 19, 2015

hi , i'm issue it not works . but i download old version to driver wacom . i use wacom intuos CTL , i not download on version new update . i download version 6.3.6 then working for me . Legacy Drivers | Wacom  << choose gadget and windows os

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foobar123asdas
Participating Frequently
October 28, 2014

For those of you with the Surface Pro 3 and trying to run Photoshop CS6...watch out for this problem:

Surface Pro 3 + Photoshop CS6 + Latest N-trig Driver = TOTAL FAILURE!!!...or is it just me???

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Ann Slonina
Participant
October 28, 2014

I just want to say thank you all so much for the info in this thread. I was having the same problem with Illustrator and Photoshop pressure sensitivity not working with my wacom. I downloaded the latest drivers and Voila! problem solved

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advame
Participant
September 20, 2014

On the brush options there is one named transfer... activate that with Pen Pressure

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armoredkoi
Participant
September 18, 2014

I have a Surface Pro 3, and was also having this issue. I found that downloading the latest touch pen drivers from N-Trig and playing with the Photoshop settings as chatid00 outlined in their post, has fixed this issue for me. Very happy, much design.

Photoshop and Illustrator CS6, Surface Pro 3 Windows 8.1 x64

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    foobar123asdas
    Participating Frequently
    October 23, 2014

    armoredkoi,

    I have the exact same setup as you do.  But, I've found that while installing the latest N-trig driver does allow me to enable the pen pressure in Photoshop CS6 I now have  a bigger problem.  It seems that I can no longer draw any clean straight lines at all.  On both ends of every stroke I'm getting an "L" shaped hook.  Are you noticing this at all?  It's easiest to see when using the pencil tool with a small diameter (e.g., size 2 or 3).  And, I'm seeing this whether or not I enable the pen pressure.  If I uninstall the new N-Trig driver everything goes back to normal where I can draw straight lines but can't enable the pen pressure.

    arvadakai
    arvadakai
    Participant
    November 20, 2016

    I have had this happen to me recently after installing the wintab driver for my Surface Pro 4, have you come up with any solutions for the "L" hook?

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    Mr. Belize
    Participant
    June 27, 2014

    Download latest driver from wacom. Worked for me.

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    mercurydime
    Participant
    April 18, 2014

    I'm having the same problem with my Genius tablet. It used to work just fine, but now all of my pressure sensitivity options are grayed out and won't work. The "always use pressure for size" icon is grayed out, and I can't change the "size jitter" in my brush shape dynamics. I used to have zero problems, but now it has stopped working.

    Chris Cox
    Chris Cox
    Legend
    April 18, 2014

    Contact Genius for driver updates to fix the driver bugs.

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