

The Wacoms have always been way too sloppy for my taste. I’d like a way to adjust resistance in a pen. For thin lines you must restrict the iPad Pro to narrower ratios. 1%-500% is the most extreme range to cover. It just cannot produce the absolute thinnest line when it is set up to also produce a very thick line with pressure. This is not to say it cannot produce fine lines. It requires too much pressure before it senses anything so it jumps to a thicker beginning size. I could not achieve the same fine line using the iPad Pro. I have both a Wacom Intuos Pro and an Apple iPad Pro used like a Cintiq. But this was just an experiment using the most extreme custom brush. I could only produce a fine line if I put all effort into applying the lightest pressure. With a large range from 1% to 500% there is such a large ratio to cover that it is too sensitive to pressure.

The problem I encountered was that it is very difficult to be that delicate with the pen. I saw no difference when I tried 0% FWIW. I set up a brush and pencil 1% to 500% and could achieve the thinnest of lines. If these were points or pixels you could dial in a specific size. That may be more or less eye candy and not a true unit of measure, I don’t know. I have a Wacom Intuos Pro and tested a brush and pencil with min 0% and 1% and a max 500%. This is probably an issue with the tablet and the way it interfaces with Harmony.

This is a very simple feature that is critical for certain pen and ink styles.īeyond this, I’d like to see smudge and blurring effects and painting with blend modes,wet edges etc, but in my view the above is fundamental. It’s very difficult to achieve a soft airbrush look that starts out very subtle at the softest pen pressure, but also ramps up as you press down. The same could be said about opacity and flow. I feel that we need a separate slider to control the overall brush scale, so that sliding the maximum slider doesn’t effect the minimum size. The issues as I see it is that the brush’s scale is intrinsically linked to the ‘maximum size’ slider.

You can see that in the middle drawing, the minimum size is set to 0%, yet even at the lowest pressure, the line still starts out huge. This makes it impossible to create a brush that starts out with a very fine line with low pressure that can expand into a larger shape. The problem is, when I scale up the maximum slider, this also seems to scale up the size of the minumum brush size as well. In the bitmap brush settings we have a slider for ‘maximum size’ and ‘minimum size’.
