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Overview
Optimize your Wacom tablet for use with Adobe Photoshop and get finer control when drawing and painting.
If you're serious about digital illustration, there's a good chance you use a Wacom tablet. But are you getting the most out of your tools? In this course, Adobe Certified Instructor Kevin Stohlmeyer shows how to optimize your Wacom tablet for use with Photoshop. He reviews each component of the tablet and Grip Pen and shows how to adjust preferences and customize your tablet to work best with Photoshop. Plus, he helps you experiment with Photoshop's default brushes, natural tips brushes, erodible brushes, and Mixer Brush.
If you're serious about digital illustration, there's a good chance you use a Wacom tablet. But are you getting the most out of your tools? In this course, Adobe Certified Instructor Kevin Stohlmeyer shows how to optimize your Wacom tablet for use with Photoshop. He reviews each component of the tablet and Grip Pen and shows how to adjust preferences and customize your tablet to work best with Photoshop. Plus, he helps you experiment with Photoshop's default brushes, natural tips brushes, erodible brushes, and Mixer Brush.
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know before watching this course
- Using the exercise files
- Getting to know your Wacom tablet
- Changing the pen nib
- ExpressKeys
- Touch Ring
- Radial Menu
- Grip Pen: Pen/Mouse mode
- Touch Options
- Helpful ExpressKey shortcuts for Photoshop
- Modifying the Touch Ring
- Quick options for the Radial Menu
- Suggested buttons for Grip Pen
- Opacity vs. flow
- Brush panel
- Natural tip brushes
- Mixer Brush
- Erodible brushes
- Next steps
Taught by
Kevin Stohlmeyer