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Painting pressure-sensitive brushstrokes

Painting pressure-sensitive brushstrokes - Photoshop Tutorial

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Painting pressure-sensitive brushstrokes

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- [Instructor] All right, now one of the reasons my brush strokes so far are so terribly ugly is because they're utterly and completely uniform in thickness. And so if you're serious about painting in Photoshop, then you want to get yourself a drawing tablet with a pressure-sensitive stylus. And the biggest name in professional quality drawing tablets is a group called Wacom, W-A-C-O-M. You'll hear people call it Way Calm and Whack Them and all this other stuff. It is Wacom by the way. But I do want to show you something inside the Wacom tablet properties, which is a control panel here on the PC, it's a system setting on the Mac. And this happens to be an Intuos5, so not the latest and greatest tablet by the way but a really good one. And that's the great thing about a drawing tablet. Once you invest in one, it's going to last you forever. And so notice right now I'm looking at the touch options. You can set touch…

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