Support for graphic tablets

DxO PhotoLab Feature requests
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I vote for better support of graphic tablets. Especially when masking, graphic tablets are so much better than using the mouse. BTW the friends of Adobe support this extensively.

What I really miss at PhotoLab is that the pressure signal is supported and easy to use hot keys to fast switch between modes.

I understand that long time users of PhotoLab in different generations should not be forced to learn something new. But if you provide in the settings a mode where you can switch between modes, there should be something for everybody.

Especially use of mouse wheel is horrible for graphic tablet users. I see the partial modification of the image as one of the strengths of PhotoLab - so graphic tablets are a powerful tool.

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PL uses mouse en keyboard shortcut, it is not made for tablet. But they are numerous of keyboard shortcuts Menus, Preferences and Functions – PhotoLab

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For some information you may check here
( pressure sensitivity is not supported ).

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GaoGao, thank you for the link. That’s overall pretty helpful, but for masking a lot of the settings are done with mouse wheel - this is OK when working with a mouse, the graphic tablets - at least the ones I know - do not support that kind of signal. And in addition to what Wolfgang was writing (thanks to you as well, Wolfgang), that pressure sensitivity is not supported, that ends up in a loss of functionality of a graphic tablet.

The better tablets do provide some short cut buttons and a wheel. If DXO could make this working for the most important tasks, e.g… size of brush, hardness of brush etc. I could even live without pressure sensitivity. But that would mean that some of the settings need to be changed.

As I said, I would not change in general but provide either a function to modify or have an item in the settings “support of graphic tablets” which would give access to these function needing mouse wheel today.

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When masking gets difficult, I use a Wacom Intuos Pro M – and have it set up accordingly.

Please go through the links I posted. There is a lot of helpful information.
If you still can’t handle it … what do you need?

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Hi Wolfgang, sorry answered you in the wrong thread - but you might get sorted out.

I have a Mac and I use XP-Pen graphic tablet and its rather difficult to get the wheel working at all.

Do you have a set of settings? Of course there might be some differences between the tablet brands and the use of Win vs. Mac

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As you might see from this page there are programmable keys plus a touch ring on one side of the tablet, which I’ve used to mimic some functions.

the main keys are < ALT + >, < Space + >, < Crtl + > and < Shift + > for the Windows version

ALT + Pen mode = to toggle e.g. from manual brush to eraser
Space + Pen = move the zoomed pic around
Ctrl + Ring (instead Ctrl + mouse wheel) = brush size
Shift + Ring (instead Shift + Mouse wheel) = brush feather

Ring (instead of Mouse wheel) = zoom

and use the pen’s buttons

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Maybe you can ‘translate’ some to the Mac version (I have no idea if / what you can program on your graphic tablet).

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many thanks - I will give it a try tomorrow.
regards Martin