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fjamesw
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November 11, 2017
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Lightroom and Wacom Intuos 5 pressure sensitivity not working

  • November 11, 2017
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Hi,

As the title says, the pressure sensitivity on my Wacom Intuos 5 doesn’t work with Lightroom. It works a charm with Photoshop so not it’s not an issue with the tablet. The strange thing is if I click a window outside of Lightroom and then click back to use the adjustment brush in Lightroom the pressure sensitivity works until I release the pen and then try use again and it no longer works (unless I click an external window again). Has anyone else experienced similar issues and know how to solve this?

Thanks

James

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    KR Seals
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    KR SealsCommunity Expert
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    November 11, 2017

    I'm using an intuos 4 and it is working fine. The standard answer it to check the Wacom site to see if you have the latest driver for the Intuos 5. If you do, try an older driver to see if that helps.

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    fjameswAuthor
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    November 12, 2017

    Thank you for that, I think i’ve found the issue - I had a problem with sliders sticking, which seems to be a common problem with the solution being disabling windows ink in the Wacom pen properties. This solved my sliders sticking issue but causes the pressure sensitivity not to work so it seems I can have one or the other. Anyone else notice this?

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    fjameswAuthor
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    November 12, 2017

    OK, it seems after doing some digging online that this is a common issue with Lightroom, turn on windows ink and you have nice pressure sensitivity but horrible laggy sliders. Or turn off windows ink and have nice smooth sliders but no pressure sensitivity. There seems to be a fix for this same issue in photoshop where you tell Photoshop to use wintab instead using a .txt file in the appdata folder for photoshop but I can't find anything similar for lightroom.

    Has anyone else come across this same thing and managed to sort it or is this simply a bug we have to put up with?

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