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June 6, 2019
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Photoshop Low Pen Pressure Sensitivity - Yoga 920

  • June 6, 2019
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Having an issue on my Lenovo Yoga 920 laptop in which all lines drawn using the Active Pen 2, my Wacom Bamboo Ink Pen, and my Wacom Intuos tablet do not respond to pen pressure properly. After rigorous troubleshooting, I found all other programs seemed to work fine and photoshop both on my personal PC and my Lenovo Laptop have the same issue.

When attempting to draw a thick line in photoshop a rock hard press is required to the point I feel it's damaging to the screen. Likewise the same is true for thin lines. When creating a "bullet" line down the screen pen pressure responds rather uniformly but when lessening pressure it will have no effect and continue to draw a line with rather uniform thickness with barely any taper.

Another issue is lag/response time. While this issue was minor at first, it is pretty annoying, as slight delays cause inaccuracies in line thickness.

Some of the issues

1). Pen Pressure Incredibly Poor

2). Lines will barely taper off

3). Line Lag

4). Lines can be drawn thin to thick (with proper response), but not thick to thin (I suspect this is due to lag)

5). Dots where the line should taper off (Also suspect due to lag but uncertain)

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War Unicorn
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June 6, 2019

Do you have the pro or consumer version of the Intuos? I have an Intuos Pen and Touch (small) but the strokes I make in Photoshop look like the ones made in PaintTool SAI.

Did you try different settings in Wacom Tablet Properties? (e.g., Turning off Windows Ink.)

imw25Author
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June 6, 2019

I was hoping the Lenovo Yoga 960 would allow me to use my Bamboo Ink pen to draw. I used the tablet to see if the issue was screen-specific (As in the laptop had issues with pressure sensitivity) and that was not the case. So my main concern is aimed more at the Wacom pen for my laptop rather than the actual tablet.

But for reference, I have a Wacom Intuos Medium CTH-680 and I checked Wacom Tablet Properties after seeing others having issues with Windows Ink, but it simply wasn't there.

War Unicorn
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June 7, 2019

?

Should be under the Mapping tab. See screenshot: