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Inspiring
March 9, 2018
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Pressure sensitive brushes

  • March 9, 2018
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How can you tell which brushes are compatible with a Wacom tablet for pressure sensitivity?

Can anyone recommend a site for downloading additional brushes?

What is a good type of brush for painting skin tones?

Thanks.

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    Correct answer Monika Gause

    Any brush you create or edit (without Bristle Brushes) are pressure sensitive.

    But you have to set it manually. Select brush you want to use and click twice in Brushes Palette.

    Then Use pressure or any tablet settings

    You can use pressure for:

    Caligraphic, Art., Pattern and Scatter brushes

    Just set right options

    pawel


    Of course bristle brushes are pressure sensitive. But it's not obvious in the brushes options.

    While with the other brushes (art brush, pattern brush, calligraphic brush) it's a direct relation: more pressure ->  bigger blob, in bristle brushes you set up parameters for a physics engine. You set up longer hair for your brush. Longer hair behaves differently when there's more pressure. The physics engine knows that and behaves accordingly. It's like a racing game: you drive the car against the concrete wall -> the car gets disassembled into pieces. You drive the car against the lamp post -> the lamp post is flattened. The physics engine knows that, you don't have to set it up before playing.

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    Doug A Roberts
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    Community Expert
    March 9, 2018

    art brushes and calligraphic brushes have pressure sensitive functions. i would have thought bristle brushes did too, but apparently not for some reason.

    Inspiring
    March 9, 2018

    Is there a way to make other brushes pressure sensitive OR is there a way to make custom brushes pressure sensitive?

    Thanks.

    macpawel
    Participating Frequently
    March 9, 2018

    Any brush you create or edit (without Bristle Brushes) are pressure sensitive.

    But you have to set it manually. Select brush you want to use and click twice in Brushes Palette.

    Then Use pressure or any tablet settings

    You can use pressure for:

    Caligraphic, Art., Pattern and Scatter brushes

    Just set right options

    pawel