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Tablet not usable - Carl Dershem - 09-23-2024
Using a Wacom 16 tablet under Windows 10(64 bit), in Gimp 2.10.38
I just installed the program today, and while it looks very useful, the tablet interface is... less than stellar.
I was able to go into the Input Devices menu and watched a couple of YouTube videos, but it just does not work. It sees he tablet, and i can use it to point, but not to paint.
For one thing, the Dynamics are OFF, and I have no idea how to turn them on, r if that is necessary, or what they do.
And if I want to use a brush on the screen, well, I can do that with the mouse, but the pen only points, and if I try to paint, I get a kind of rectangle, with squares at its corners, instead of, well, drawing/painting.
I admit to being new with the program, but shouldn't it paint, instead of (it looks like) designating an area?
Is... a puzzlement.
Thanks for any tips that might make this work better.
RE: Tablet not usable - Ofnuts - 09-23-2024
For a given pointer (mouse, tablet...) Gimp uses the tool selected with that pointer. So if you want to paint with the tablet, you select the brush tool with the tablet.
The things that says "Dynamics off" is a selector, just click on the big icon on its right to select a different set of dynamics.
The "kind of rectangle, with squares at its corners" is probably the pointer icon that tells you that the brush shape is too small to be displayed. This can be an effect of Brush dynamics, but that description would also fit what you get with some transform tools (Scale tool and others).
You get much better answers by showing us what you see:
- How to make a useful screenshot
- How to attach it to your question