Photoshop
: Pick a brush that uses pressure sensitivity, and start drawing.
GIMP
: Go to Edit > Input Devices.
• Select "Microsoft device Stylus."
• Set the mode to "Screen."
• Pick a brush that uses pressure sensitivity, and start drawing.
The single greatest advantage of Microsoft's high-end Surface Pro 4 tablet over other high-end mobile Windows devices is its pressure-sensitive stylus. So those of you who jumped in with the latest generation of the device may have been perplexed (as I was) to find that some of the most popular graphics apps out there — including older versions of Photoshop (CS6) and even the open source GIMP — were incapable of using stylus pressure ... even though they worked just dandily on the Surface Pro 3.
David Nagel
is the former editorial director of 1105 Media's Education Group and editor-in-chief of
THE Journal
,
STEAM Universe
, and
Spaces4Learning
. A 30-year publishing veteran, Nagel has led or contributed to dozens of technology, art, marketing, media, and business publications.
