Setting up Photoshop to work with the Huion H430P Drawing tablet

[joelh33703351]

I am working with the latest version of PS on an Acer Windows desktop. I have installed the driver for the H430P tablet. I have restarted. And now I have opened PS but can't see whether PS and the tablet are communicating. This is what I have read:

Once photoshop has been opened, you will want to select the brush panel and access the brush settings. This will help you to determine whether the updates were successfully carried out. 

Brush Sensitivity

Once you are on the brush settings, you will want to enable the brush sensitivity settings.

This will allow the brushstrokes that are created on the tablet to be correctly recognized, and will enable Photoshop to respond to the change in sensitivity on the Huion tablet. 

When changing the pen pressure, you will want to ensure that it suits how you are going to use the stylus with the Huion tablet. We would recommend that you enable smoothing.

 But nothing seems to be happening. I have not customized the hot keys on the tablet. Anyone have any experience with this? 

[Trevor.Dennis]

Hi Joel.  Not with that particular tablet.

If it is working OK, and you set Size Jitter control to Pen Pressure, and make some brush strokes, then the preview in Brush Settings will show a tappered stroke at the bottom of the panel, and you'll be able vary line thickness when using the brush.

This page on the Lazy Nezumi site is the best guide I know of for setting up tablets.

https://lazynezumi.com/tabletSetup 

[Trevor.Dennis]

From the Huion site

[joelh33703351]

thanks Trevor, will check it out 

[joelh33703351]

Two things I learned. 1) You have to have clicked on the brush tool to unlock the brush settings. Sound dumb but without that step nothing will happen 2) Here is the Huion support page about selecting Photoshop. 

Customize Press Keys and Digital Pen Button Functions : HUION . I'm still not there yet, but this should help

[Trevor.Dennis]

That's similar to Wacom tablets.  When you first open Photoshop and select a setting that uses pen pressure, the stroke preview at the bottom of the Brush Settings panel still shows a non-tapered stroke until the pen contacts the tablet and makes a stroke.