Wacom PTK-450, PTH-850, PTK-650, PTH-450 Drawing with Pressure Sensitivity, Drawing with Tilt

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DRAWING WITH PRESSURE SENSITIVITY

The pen responds to your hand movements, enabling you to create natural-looking pen and brush strokes within applications that support this feature. Many graphics applications have drawing tools that respond to the pressure you place on the pen. For example, sliders are used in some applications to vary line characteristics such as width, color, and opacity. These characteristics can be controlled much better by the pen’s pressure sensitivity. You can vary line width, blend colors, and change opacity with the pressure you exert upon the pen. The digital ink tools in Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, and Office 2007 (or later) also respond to the pressure you place on the pen.

To draw, write, or ink with pressure sensitivity, move the pen along the surface of the tablet while applying various amounts of pressure downward on the tip of the pen.

• Press hard for thick lines or dense color.

• Press gently for thin lines or softer color.

Some applications require that you first select a pressure-sensitive tool from the application tool palette.

To adjust the tip feel, see adjusting tip feel and double-click.

Visit our web site for a list of applications that support pressure. See product information.

DRAWING WITH TILT

The tablet recognizes when you tilt the pen from vertical to incline positions. Tilt can be used to control line shape and thickness in supporting applications. This is like working with an airbrush where tilt can be used to make a line thin when the tool is vertical, or wide when the tool is tilted. In other applications, you can adjust tilt to define brush characteristics such as width, color, and opacity.

To test tilt, draw a curve in a graphics application, such as Corel® PainterTM, that supports tilt. Make sure that the tilt function in your application is active. Then change the tilt of the pen as you draw to vary the shape and thickness of the brush stroke.

You can adjust the brush characteristics within your application to create different effects.

To adjust the amount of pen tilt required to produce a desired effect in your application, see customizing tilt sensitivity.

Visit our web site for a list of applications that support tilt. See product information.

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