From the course: Wacom Tablet: Customizing ExpressKeys

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How to customize the Wacom pen buttons

How to customize the Wacom pen buttons

From the course: Wacom Tablet: Customizing ExpressKeys

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How to customize the Wacom pen buttons

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- [Instructor] Your Wacom pen has three buttons you can customize. Let's see how. To customize your pen, first thing you do is open up your Wacom tablet properties, select your device, and select whatever pen you have, some of you may have an art pen, I have the grip pen that came with my Cintiq, and then you have three different tabs under here, pen, eraser, and calibrate. On the pen tab, you'll see there are two different rocker switches on the pen down near the nib, each one can be customized. The defaults are "right click" and "double click" for the front and the back respectively. So I wanna adjust the "double click". I don't use the button for the "double click" very often but what I do want to do is set this up to a specific key stroke. So I'm going to change that. And I'm going to hit the space key, I'm going to call this, "pan". This is very hand, as you can see here, this changed to "pan". So let's see how this works. I'm going to go into Photoshop, grab my pen and when I…

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