- [Aaron Rutten] I'm digital artist Aaron Rutten
and in this video, I'm going to show you how to install
the Wacom Intuos bundled software.
(gentle music)
First we'll go to wacom.com/start/intuos.
That'll take us to this page here where we have some
instructions about how to install the tablet,
download the drivers and download the bundled software.
Now if this is your first time registering a Wacom product,
you'll need to create an account under My Account.
Go ahead and fill out all the necessary information
and then click on the Next button.
Answer a few quick questions about how you'll be using
this tablet and then Create your Wacom ID.
Now check the email that you registered with and you should
have this confirmation email with an activation link.
And now your account has been created.
To download the bundled software, you go to the left menu
on your Software Library and then click on Register Product.
You'll have to enter your Product ID
and that can be found on the bottom of the Wacom Intuos box.
Enter that serial number on the Wacom registration page
and then go ahead and click Next.
Then click on View Software Library.
Next, carefully choose the correct
operating system for your computer.
If you're working on a Mac, choose Mac.
If you're working on a Windows computer, choose Windows
but make sure not to choose the wrong one here.
That takes us to the Software Library which shows us
all of the bundled software that's available to us
in our region depending on the model that was purchased.
Now, I have the Wacom Intuos medium which means I can
get ClipStudio Paint Pro, Corel Painter Essentials 6
and Corel AfterShot 3 and I can download all three of them.
So you choose Add to Library, select.
That'll show you the license key that you
can use to register the software.
Then you click on Download to download
the installer for the application.
I'm going to go ahead and download all three applications.
Now it's important to note that you can always go back
to account.wacom.com and you can access this
Software Library page, your serial numbers
and your download links for the software.
So let's go ahead and install some
of the software and try it out.
I'm going to start with ClipStudio Paint Pro.
I'm going to double click on the Installer file
and just follow all the instructions to install it.
Now I'm going to click on the program
icon to go ahead and launch it.
Now it's going to go ahead and take a minute to load
some assets here but once you've got it open,
go up to the top left and click on Paint
and that will prompt you to enter your license key.
Go ahead and type that in and then click
on Register License, then you'll be able to use
the full version of ClipStudio Paint Pro.
So we'll go ahead and click back in the top left on Paint
and then we can start painting.
And I'm just going to do a few test doodles here to make
sure that this is working, keep an eye out for ClipStudio Paint
tutorial that I'll be releasing very soon.
There are also Pastels and Crayons
if you click on that category.
Let's try the crayon.
You should be able to control the brush size
and your opacity with your pen pressure depending
on the brush you have selected.
If not, you may want to go to the File menu
and then look under Preferences and then look under Tablet
and just make sure that WinTab is selected as your driver.
If that doesn't help and you still don't have pen pressure,
watch until the end of this video because I'm going to explain
how to calibrate your pen in the Wacom Tablet Properties.
Now, let's test out some paint brushes.
We'll click on the Paint Brush tool and then there are some
different categories of media and then presets.
We can make this palette wider if we
wanted to by dragging it wider.
Let's try Transparent Watercolor and our color picker
is way down at the bottom left.
That's a strange place for it, but that's where it is.
You could move it somewhere else if you like.
You can see if I use light pressure then I get
a lighter mark that kind of blends and if I use
firmer pressure, I get a more opaque mark.
I'm going to go ahead and choose a different color
like this blue and I can kind of mix 'em together
depending on how much pen pressure I use.
As I mentioned earlier, we can calibrate that pen pressure
which I'll show you toward the end of this video.
Let's try Oil Paint now.
We'll choose a green color.
Put down some oil paint and then we'll pick
another color to blend into it.
How about something like this gold color here.
We can see we can blend them kind of together
and you get a nice oily effect.
There's also airbrushes if we select the airbrush tool
and we can make a very big airbrush which is nice.
I'm going to put down a little bit of oil paint
on top of that using a lighter color and let's
take a look at the Blenders because blenders
are very important to me in art applications.
We'll select the blender category.
We have the Blend brush here which is kind
of a wet blending, we have this blender here
which is a little bit more spongy called Finger Tip
and we have a Running Color On Fiber which is more
of a broken up kind of effect and then Soothing Watercolor
is a more oily look or kind of a wet look.
And I think there's a pretty decent variety
of blenders here, so that's as far as I'm going to go
into the demo of ClipStudio Paint.
Let's take a look at Painter Essentials 6 now.
We'll go ahead and install that.
I'll enter the serial number from the Wacom website.
And then once it's finished installing,
I'll click on the application to open it
and we can play around with Corel Painter Essentials 6.
Now in my opinion, this is really the best application
for painting and drawing although ClipStudio Paint
does work well, also it just kind of depends
on your preference and what you're going to use.
If you're doing more comic books and manga,
you might prefer ClipStudio Paint.
However, if you're doing fine art and drawing
and painting, photo painting, cloning,
then Corel Painter Essentials is going to be the way to go.
If you want to learn how to use this application
in more detail, check out my tutorial
about Corel Painter Essentials 6.
I'll put a link down in the video description.
But you can see just like in ClipStudio Paint
there's different categories of brushes
and I can draw and paint.
So let's take a look now at Corel AfterShot
which is kind of like a Photoshop or Lightroom equivalent.
You can use it to edit photos.
So on the left we have a file manager.
Let's go ahead and open file.
We'll select a photo here, that photo will pop up
over on the left and we'll just double click
on that photo to begin editing it.
It opens here in the center in our art board
and then over on the right, we have all the different
sliders that will control the different properties.
Exposure will make it lighter or darker.
Highlights will help reduce some
of the highlights if it's overexposed.
And we can add some fill light if we
want to brighten up the background.
Blacks we can use to make it richer or more dull.
You can use undos too if you want to go back.
Then we can add some saturation to make it more colorful.
We can also sharpen it by turning on sharpening
and then you can add more or less sharpening if you want
and you can toggle this box on and off to do a before
and after to see the effect that the sharpening is having.
Now if you don't want to mess with all these sliders,
you can always click on the Auto Level button
and then there's also Perfectly Clear
which also gives you another result.
And I think I kind of like the way that that looks.
We can do some more editing over on the far right.
We can go to detail and there's some settings
for lens correction and a few other things.
For example, we could add a vignette here which kind of draws
the focus in towards the center of the photograph
and helps it look more dramatic.
Let's click on the Plugins tab now.
We can play with the different individual colors.
We can click enable and then we can adjust the reds
to make them lighter or darker.
We can do the same with the oranges.
And we can control each individual color.
You may also want to optimize your preferences
by going to File, Preferences.
And then if you look under Performance,
you can choose how much of your computer is utilized.
Especially look under I/O Threads because if you're
using an SSD or Solid State Drive,
you can increase this to between two and four
to get better performance.
We'll go ahead and click Apply and then OK.
Then on some computers that can give AfterShot 3 a boost.
So once you're happy with your photo,
you can go ahead and save it.
To do that you can go to File and then Export,
Export Files and then you can choose
all of your different settings here.
I'm going to go ahead and save this as a .tif
which is higher quality than .jpeg.
You'll always want to save your edited files as a high quality
format because .jpeg will compress your image.
Only save as .jpeg if you need to in order to make
the file smaller to post it on the web.
So you can feel free to explore
all the different settings here.
You can Export it to a source folder
which is where the file is located
currently, or you can choose a folder.
I've gone ahead and Exported that image
and I'll open it here in Windows.
And you can see here's the edited version of my photo
of a mushroom, pretty cool huh.
You can do a lot more with AfterShot if you upgrade
to AfterShot Pro, there's a special deal
you can get if you upgrade now.
If you don't like this message you can turn it off.
Same goes for Corel Painter.
On the welcome screen you can upgrade to the full version
of Corel Painter 2018 which I would highly recommend
because then you'll be able to follow along with all
of my great tutorials that I post on YouTube
and this is a great deal on Corel Painter.
Now, I want to talk a little bit about customizing
your Wacom Intuos to work alongside these applications.
We'll go to our Wacom Tablet Properties
and we'll look under Pen.
Here's where you can set the pen pressure calibration
so you can adjust the tip feel.
I press really hard when I draw
so I set mine one notch towards firm.
You can also set shortcuts for the pen buttons.
You can have them do things like resize the brush
and erase and all that kind of stuff.
We look under Mapping.
Here's where you can set your tablet to work specifically
on just one monitor rather than all of your monitors.
So just choose the monitor that you want in your set up.
Now depending on the kind of monitor that you're working on,
you may want to set the tablet area to customize it.
You may also want to have it only work on a portion
of a screen, you could do that as well.
If your screen is extra wide, then you could also try
forced proportions to see if that helps with your tablet.
Do a little bit of test drawing in one of your art
applications and you'll be able to see what's working best.
If you don't like the ripple effect you get when you click
with your pen, you can turn off Windows Ink.
However, Photoshop requires Windows Ink in order
to be able to use pen pressure in Photoshop
so you'll have to leave it on for that application.
If we look under Options, there's an option
to adjust the pen pressure for compatibility
with older applications that only support 1,000
pressure levels so you can try that if your
application isn't responding well to pen pressure.
Next, let's look under the Tablet
tab and here's where you can set
the shortcuts for your express keys.
You have four express keys so you could
set this to undo or redo or select
your brush or all kinds of different stuff.
Now you can set this for each application as well.
So you can have your express keys work
differently in each application.
We may need to add ClipStudio Paint here so just
locate the program file and go ahead and add it
and now you'll be able to add shortcuts
for ClipStudio Paint and any other application.
Now I should clarify that there's also a setting
for all and other so that would control the express
keys and settings for all applications
except the ones that you've made custom profiles for.
So there you go.
That's a quick tutorial on how to get set up with the
bundled software for your Wacom Intuos tablet.
Next, learn how to draw with your tablet
with my Ultimate Drawing Tabler Tutorial.
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