Watching this 4 year old tutorial on how to make my 17 year old tablet work with a new program :D Thank you, I had zero hopes this would work but it works flawlessly. Wacom Graphire 4
Every XP-Pen tablet I have ever purchased has worked very well with GIMP. That includes Windows and Linux. In some cases, GIMP input settings may need to be properly adjusted by selecting: Edit > Preferences > Input Devices > Configure Extended input Devices > Mode > [Disable] or [Screen] or [Window] It's possible to have more than one input device enabled and confuse GIMP. Careful selection of settings will determine failure or success. Even more challenging is to configure Krita. Depending on computer graphics capability, it may appear the graphics tablet is to blame when in fact the graphics driver settings are the culprit.
holy heck this was so extremely helpful! thx dude-for example being able to use the eraser side of the pen as an eraser saves so much time and is therefore simply huge!
Thanks for your video: My Problem is, I don't even see the two WACOM entries in the "input device configuration". Only the "Core Pointer" is shown. Pen works, but no pressure sensitivity. When I plug in a wacom tablet, the pressure sensitivity suddenly works, even if I don't use the wacom-tablet, but the pen on the Thinkpad Surface. Same Problem using "Xournal". Pen Pressure works fine in most programs, but GIMP and xournal only are pressure sensitive, when I plug in a physical wacom tablet. I use: Windows 10 on Lenovo L390 Yoga. Any ideas?
For the brush size etc using the spin wheel, it depends on your keyboard localization. [ and ] being the default controls for the brush sizes it for some reason won't work if your [ and ] are under the AltGr key (AltGr+8 for [ and AltGr+9 for ]). That may interfere on some tools that use Alt as a combination effect like the Erasers Anti Erase that is under (Alt) key. Also for the detection of the device in GIMP you need to have your Tablet to be set at the display your GIMP is on to get it to detect the device on the first run. Otherwise if you have it generally set to include all your screens in multi screen environment, it for some reason won't detect the input device at all but acts as the default input device. Otherwise a great video that I needed to get the Wacom Intuos 5 to work on DIMP 2.10.n under Windows 10.
Omg Thank you to the moon and back for this how to. I've always used Photoshop and with a new camera, my Photoshop is now out of date to open raw images and I'm loving Gimp so far. I could not figure out how to get my Veikk drawing tablet to work with Gimp. I was getting really frustrated. Thank you for showing me how. It worked. Mine says the 2 options you changed to screen, but mine also has a 3rd one that says Veikk Tablet Puck. I'm not sure what that one is so I changed it to screen with the other 2 you said to change.
Some tablets offer accessory tools that you can buy separately. Digitiser puck is the kind of tablet tool that looks a little like a mouse, but has a transparent circle with crosshair markup on it sticking out to the side or to the front of it. It's used to digitise technical drawings, by fixing the drawing to your tablet and then following up key features of the drawing with the puck, by lining the crosshair up with the features of the drawing. If you don't have the corresponding accessory, then the tool will simply never be activated. I suspect the corresponding tool is actually "UC-Logic Puck". Most inexpensive tablets are based on UC-Logic chips and firmware and inherit tool compatibility - it's either them or Waltop. I don't even know whether it's even being manufactured, but at least on paper, it exists. And it's probably a misnomer and is actually a mouse rather than a real digitiser puck.
Thanks! I think that your video just saved me from returning this *UGEE S1060W* that I got yesterday. I only use GIMP and this thing just wasn't working at all. Just moving the stylus, even above the surface, not touching, would send GIMP into fits by things being selected and such. I was about to box it up and return the thing. Then, while your vid is for a Wacom, I thought, perhaps something will stand out and start out it did! It turns out that what I NEEDED to do was have the "Device Status" dialog opened as well. Then things made sense. There are 2 buttons on the stylus. The lower one is a mouse right click while the upper one's current configure flips between Pen/Eraser! It turns out that to change the colors, brushes and the like, I have to be in one of the 2 modes and THEN choose the items that I need. Now, it seems to work. A funny thing just happened. As your vid mentions the resolution, I wasn't sure what this UGEE was. So I went back into Amazon to confirm the res, only to find that TODAY, the thing was on sale for less! LOL I called Amazon and they credited the difference. Gotta love Amazon.
Hi, thank you for your tutorial.I have GIMP 2.10.34 on a Mac, with a Wacom Intuos Medium tablet. When I go into Input Devices, it lists Core Pointer, Quartz Cursor, Quartz Eraser and Quartz Pen. Tapping on any of these and setting them to Screen (or even Window) does not give me pressure sensitivity. Do you know what I am doing wrong?
Note: if the tablet is not recognized by GIMP, and when you search "Wacom" on your computer nothing comes up, you likely are missing the driver for your tablet. Simply search "Wacom driver" in Google, visit the page on Wacom's website to install a driver, type in your tablet's model number in the search bar at the top of the page (the model number is usually located on the back of your tablet), choose your device, then click the button to download the driver for your operating system. Run the install, restart your computer, and try the steps in this tutorial once the driver is installed.
Hi there. I have installed my tablet, i can see it on my PC, I can move the mouse point while using GIMP but it does not appear in the Input devices so that I can set it up. Just the mouse. Any advice? Thanks a lot.
Davies Media Design Thanks for your reply. I had installed the drivers and Photoshop could see the tablet but not GIMP. Finally after many times of restarting the PC it worked! I hope it stays like that. Thanks again.
I hit a wall. I have a Mac running Monterey 12.0.1 and Gimp 2.10.30. I have installed the current drivers for my Wacom Intuos Pro, but Gimp will not recognize the tablet in the inputs menu. I would assume there wouldn't be too many difference between Windows and Mac in this regard, but any help would be appreciated.
Something i realised is that GIMP has no notion of what the tip or what the eraser of the tablet are, these names mean nothing to it. It just understands them as different 'tools' but it doesn't have any meaning assigned to them. So you can use any two GIMP tools from the toolbox and it will change between them when you turn the pen around. Some tablets potentially support more 'tools' such as mouse, airbrush, puck, and they presumably get treated the same way, each retaining its own tool selection and state. I've also found that with my old Wacom tablet on Windows, and recent GIMP, i need to add --use-wintab to the launcher shortcut so the tablet gets picked up to begin with. This is a Graphire 3 XL and doesn't support Windows Ink API.
GIMP 3.0 will have a lot of improvements to tablet support (at least that's what they say). You can test out the development version of GIMP 3.0 (i.e. GIMP 2.99.x) via the Development Downloads page on the GIMP website.
@@DaviesMediaDesign I have 2.99.6 installed here and it's not recognising my tablet at all. The pen pressure input works somehow, but it cannot distinguish between stylus and eraser tools at all. Trying "--use-wintab" prevents GIMP from starting, complains about unrecognised option. Furthermore the window decorations for pop-up windows and such cannot be operated with a pen, the window underneath steals the input. This is not very usable. Everything works in 2.10.24 with "--use-wintab". WinTab only tablets are rare. I got my tablet back in 2003! So it's 18 years old now, it can drive, vote, drink and marry now in these parts of the world. The drivers are from Windows 7 era. I cannot expect much compatibility with such obsolete hardware going forward. That being said, previously Krita didn't work properly, got confused on WinTab over coordinate systems, no pen support at all over Windows Ink. Now i tried it again, and i just left it on Windows Ink, and everything works, pressure works, eraser works, coordinates are screen correct. I don't know what's up with that, whether it was a Windows update that patched it in, or whether Krita changed something. That being the case, odds are, GIMP team will also get it working as 3.x release approaches.
My erasor won't erase. I got a wacom intuos pen and touch so I don't flip the pen to erase, I press one of the buttons on the stylus and as long as i keep it pressed, the erasor is activated. But it is really strange: As soon as I press the button it switches tools, just as it should, but the circle marking the erasor on the canvas freezes on the screen, while the cursor moves, but it doesn't erase anything. What could be wrong? I use Gimp 2.10.2 and did all the set up just as you have shown.
Is it not working to flip the pen or what's the problem? Because I got the same pen and it looks like flipping the pen is not working, looks like that the wacom intuos 2018 hasn't that feature
I know. As I said, to erase with this stylus you press one of the programmable buttons to switch to the eraser tool but you erase with the same tip as you draw. I reported the bug, it is in deed a gimp bug.
Yeah my issue is not really one. Wacom intuos just don't has the feature of an earazer anymore. The pen don't has a function excapt changing the needle
I don't see why it would need an eraser at the backend of the stylus when it has the programmable buttons. That is completely sufficient for me, i mean it does the same and you don't even have to flip the pen. Problem is only, that gimp doesn't handle it.^^
I'm a year late, but you should create a custom dynamics setting with pressure opacity selected in the matrix. Then, in that matrix area, click on the drop-down menu that has Mapping Matrix selected, and switch to Opacity. There, you can draw a custom curve for how much pressure you need for opacity- if you want only 50% pressure to get you to 100% opacity, you'd make a steep slope from the bottom left to top middle, and then from top middle to top right just a horizontal line. Hope this helps, it's hard to explain in text form.
But what if in the input devices, it says Quartz Pen. Mine doesn't say Wacom. The curser moves when I move the pen tool but it doesn't draw. I even restarted. A couple times, it did draw but as soon as I erased my lines, it went to not drawing again.
I have my new wacom intuos s installed and configured as "screen", and after I put pressure opacity on, I cannot draw a single line anymore? I can draw normally with mouse but soon as I change to tablet, nothing is coming out.
GIMP is currently a bit buggy with tablets. Did you update to GIMP 2.10.8? The GIMP team says tablet support will be a lot better in 3.0, which should be coming out some time early next year.
I have a Wacom Bamboo Pen and Im not sure but i dont think i have an eraser, I cant find a secure download for Wacom Center if it is even still in use, but i have Wacom Preferences and I set one of my buttons to Eraser, but it doesnt erase, I held the button and clicked eraser and it switches to eraser, but its like the pen freezes on the drawing space and refuses to draw (erase) and i can still go mess with settings. the only thing i notice is that the mode becomes grayed out
I'm not sure if you still need help with this but it wasn't working for me either and if you close it and open it again using your wacom pen instead of your mouse it comes up :)
I followed everything to a T (to about the halfway point of the video) but when I change the input devices to "screen," my mouse pointer is on the far left and the little circle that draws is on the far right- in other words what I'm drawing does not matching up with where my actual pen is. Is there a fix for this?
So this worked perfectly for my Intuos Draw, but then I got the Intuos S (also properly installed and shows up in the wacom management center )and it doesn't show up in GIMP2. What to do?
When I draw with my pen tablet I cannot start with a curve, there's this weird circle appearing wherever I first touch the screen and while inside it I can only draw a straight line along the radius and only when I get outside of it I can doodle freely. Anybody had similar problem and/or has any idea how to fix it?
I mean, its a late reply, but this is a windows problem. Search Pen and Touch, go to the Pen Options tab, click on Press and Hold and click Settings, then uncheck the "Enable press and hold for right-clicking" box, hit okay, apply, okay. If its the problem I think you're having that should stop the circle from appearing. Hope this helps.
Well, didn't work. But after having configured the Wacom tablet, at 3:39, you put your pen on the tablet you got a nice black image, I on the other hand got somethin in very pale grey. I can't seem to get the color black.
I have a huion tablet, I set up the setting multiple times, restarted my computer, redownloaded the driver, and restarted the program, and still nothing works, any reply would help
Your tablet may not work with the current version of GIMP (I do not own a Huion so I don't personally have any experience with that brand of tablet and GIMP). The good news is that GIMP 3.0 should be coming out in the next few months, and one of the big projects they are working on is better tablet functionality. So, in essence if you can't get your tablet to work with GIMP 2.10.6, hang tight for GIMP 3.0 and it should work then (although, again, I don't have experience with a Huion so I don't know that for sure).
This worked great for me on the first try...when I opened Gimp again it ceased to work the same again. I went through the same steps again and it just wouldn't work.
For some reason, when I try to draw with my tablet, it switches to the rectangle selection tool everytime I try to select the brush, but when i use my mouse, everything works :/
You may have accidentally set your tablet up to switch over to the selection tool when drawing with the pen tip. You may just need to follow this tutorial and set the pen tip up to draw with the brush and the back of the pen to draw with the eraser. The GIMP team is also working to improve pen tablet functionality with GIMP in version 3.0 which may solve issues such as this one.
@@DaviesMediaDesign I found out what was happening, apparently the normal mouse and the pen are separate. What I mean is that, if I use my pen to do draw something, the brush I was using wouldn't be the same if I started to use my mouse, so everything is saved separately for each device. It's weird... and sorry if something is not well explained.
I have new Gimp, new windows 10, new tablet One by Wacom and nothing works, its jamming and it is not visible, the tablet in the prefferences menu is grey, like inactive,. who knows???. Always problems with Gimp. With Photoshop it works...
sure now it works but the damned output of the pen in gimp is 3 inches to the right in real world space but when i click things its exactly where it should be
You may want to check out this tutorial: Map Your Wacom Tablet for GIMP (Buttons/Settings Explained and Fixed) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AjyFQjP3wno.html
