[Lunatique]

Ok, I'm fed up with this problem I've been having:

When I'm painting, my brushstroke is often recorded at first touch as full strength even when I lightly scratch the wacom. Then, after a few tries, it finally registers at the strenghth it should. WTF is going on?? Obviously this is not a problem with checked/unchecked box at whatever setting. I've been using PS for years and I've encounter this problem on and off.

I have a new computer. Intel Pentium 4 1.5 mhz, 40 G. IDE drive, 512 mb RAM, Photoshop 6, and a Wacom.

[Jabberwocky]

Have you got the update for ps 6? I had a some friends that were having problems with their tablet, but once they got the up date it seemed to fix most of them.

If you haven't it's at adobe.com

[Flexible Elf]

I've tried painting in PS6 and it's a joke (ridiculous random lag). I still use PS 4.0

-Flexible Elf

[Ian Jones]

I also have this problem occaisionally. For me it can happen imbetween changing tools usually, and it makes it so that when I touch the surface, with pressure and size turned on, even with the lightest application it makes a large dark mark. To get rid of it I just grab the mouse and draw a stroke with it, that seems to sorta reset it I think. Who knows!

[don perkins]

There were numerous bugs and so-called 'design choices' in Photoshop 6.0 which really screwed up painting and painting workflow. A large number of us-photoshop painters/illustrators got on the adobe photoshop forums and blasted adobe daily for several months. With the release of 6.0.1 most of the problems were fixed, tho' the programmers were adament that they were right in making the changes. There are still some problems, but for the most part they are very minimal.
NOTE: when installing the upgrade to 6.0.1...it is best to ditch 6.0, reinstall it, THEN install the upgrade to 6.0.1-or the installer won't SEE photoshop on your hard drive. Yes it's a major pain in the ass and may not fix the problem you're having. I'm on a Mac and we never have this kind of trouble with adobe, I don't even want to think of the hoops a PC user may have to jump through...
You may want to read through some of the forum lists to see if your exact problem is addressed there. good luck

[Lunatique]

Hey thanks! I downloaded the patch and it seemed to work. Hopefully, the stupid problem won't pop up again.

I've always wondered why adobe won't fix another very obvious problem:

The stupid cursor disappears when you work on a piece that's either grey or in similar tone. WTF? Why can't they make the cursor automatically change to the opposite color of whatever color it floats on? I mean, even Painter does that.

Sheesh.

[bottrishish]

i have this problem where ill be painting and out of the blue my tablet gets set back to mouse mode. After many re-instalations of wacoms software it still happens out of the blue, but it only happens when im using photoshop. Any thoughts?

[chickenbake]

you might be accidentally be hitting one of the function buttons at the top of the tablet. two of them are used to switch back and forth between mouse and pen mode. I only had that happen COMPLETELY randomly when i was using the OS X Beta release of the tablet driver and it would get stuck in mouse mode. I fixed that by adding and removing tools or something. btw does antbody know when photoshop is coming out for OS X? I havent seen ANYTHING!

[ceenda]

Flex: I use PS4 too. Can you believe the office was basically just planning to throw it out?

[ December 13, 2001: Message edited by: ceenda ]

[LoTekK]

i don't use photoshop (i use psp7 coz i'm on a budget... ), but i've had this problem happen to me semi-regularly in painter classic with my intuos 6x8... usually what i do is i just flip the stylus over and let the program register the eraser end, then flip it back over... the only thing that's truly annoying about that is that painter classic doesn't save your previous brush settings, making it kind of a pain in the ass...

[Sasha]

I was just having that grey-on-grey cursor problem today - it's especially bad with small sized bushes when you have a dot and four points around it.

The thing about oppossite colors and greys is there is no opposite for grey. You have fifty percent between black and white; your computer takes the distance from 50% of the image, and gives you a cursor with the inverse value (which works for colors), so on light grey you get dark grey, and dark on light. It makes perfect sense for something with a brain made out of numbers, but human eyes need contrast differences. Especially if you're using a shade of grey exactly halfway between black and white. What the fuck kind of cursor do you get then, eh? Hmmm???

Yeah, so. It just sucks.

[Lunatique]

Hmmm. I booted up Painter again, and it has similar problems. In some instances, you can see a faint, lighter grey brush shape(pastel, charcoal..etc), but in other brushes(oils and others), it's totally invisible also. Well, some brushes use the triangle, and I hate that as much as I hate the non-existing brush.

[J Bradford]

Lunatique: I had the same exact issue in PS6 with the paintbrush tool. Going to control/wacom settings, and adjusting your pressure points and adding PS6 to the program list seemed to fix it for me.