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Not sure what the correct answer is, but something to mull over...

Yesterday I was working some quick cleanup on a clip, and ended up banging my head against the proverbial wall for 30min. I couldn't get the clone brush (or the paint brush) to do anything I wanted. The strokes showed up when selected, but there were no results. I could add shapes without issue. I was almost suspecting there was a bug maybe in the latest version, went back to tutorials to check that I wasn't missing anything.

In the end it turns out I had recently changed the tip sensitivity of my pen to being a bit firmer. Between that and the standard pressure curve in the Mistika paint tool the brush was essentially near 0% even though other brush opacity was maxed out at 100%. Not until I re-adjusted the pen sensitivity in the Wacom settings and then added a much more aggressive response curve in Mistika did it start doing what I expected.

I wonder if there should be some sort of feedback (either a readout of the effective pressure opacity, or a warning if the opacity is below a certain threshold) to avoid other people's frustration so it's more obvious why the brush isn't doing anything. And double checking that the default curve is appropriate with the full range of sensitivity settings of the Wacom tablet. 

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Hi @jan1.

I'm sorry for the inconveniences caused. I set my Wacom tablet into the firmest value and to make the clone fore tool work well, I had to press really hard. We've never faced this issue. According to the dev team, the values of any tablet are normalized into the software, although it must depend on the quality of the tablet and the different brands. So now we are aware that firm values can cause some issues in the Paint tool. We'll document the warning in our support portal.

Thanks a lot for the report.

Kindest regards.
Cristóbal 

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Hi Cristobal,

Thanks for checking it out. Correct, once I pressed really hard I could get results. I just didn't realize that this was the issue, which it why it took a while.

One possibility would be to have a checkbox that determines whether/how pressure is factored in, which could be off by default. In Photoshop the default setting is that pressure determines brush size rather than opacity, but there are a few buttons at the top that allow to select your desired behavior. So having a checkbox could allow people to opt into pressure control rather than being thrown off by it.

But if you haven't heard anyone else complain, it may be a corner case and not a high priority at all.

PS: My tablet is an Intuos Pro with latest drivers. But I also use it as a touch pad instead of a mouse, so I only rely on the pen when painting or drawing shapes. For most interactions I just use finger touch and gestures. I had made my pen pressure harder to avoid false positives when drawing shapes which is what I use the pen a lot.

 

Thanks as always,

Jan

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Hi Jan,

Currently, there's no way to perform manipulations of the pen pressure inside Mistika beyond the tablet wacom itself. I'll list if it for sure in the feature request list and we'll document this issue as a warning for possible future users. 

Do you find comfortable using Mistika with the finger touch pad in the tablet?

Cheers,

Cristóbal 

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On 9/19/2019 at 9:18 AM, cbolanos@sgo.es said:

Do you find comfortable using Mistika with the finger touch pad in the tablet?

Yes, it is very ergonomic. It allows my wrist to rest on a small pad (similar how you rest your wrist with a trackball) while you have full control over the user interface. You can then switch at moments notice to the pen if you need fine control while using the same desk area. Using the pen all the time is harder on your wrist, plus you have to keep setting down the pen if you type, while with the touch option it's a seamless hand movement between pointing and typing.

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