Hello there. I'm artist Aaron Rutten. In this video, I'm going to give you a quick
tutorial on how to install and use the new Wacom Intuos Art, Photo, Comic and Draw.
This is the newest tablet made by Wacom and it is really awesome.
It's a really slick tablet. I've gone ahead and unboxed this tablet in a previous video.
So now we will go ahead and install this for the first time. You should have your
tablet of course and your pen to draw with. And you should have a driver CD.
If you have a disk drive in your computer, you can use this to install the driver.
You'll need to install the driver first before you plug in the tablet.
So don't plug it in yet. You can either install it from the CD or you can go to
Wacom's website to download the latest driver. I recommend that you do
that because then you're gonna have the newest driver and it's probably gonna
work a lot better than what's on the CD. If we jump on over to Wacom's website,
that's Wacom.com (you can also do a google search for "Wacom drivers")
you'll see over here there's a place to choose drivers. And then you can
choose the actual model. So we want to choose Intuos. Then we click on Download Driver.
And then it's gonna say "ensure that any previously downloaded drivers
have been uninstalled.
You'll want to go into your control panel and uninstall any old Wacom drivers.
Next, you can click on OK and it's going to give you the appropriate file. Sou want to save
that file to your desktop or somewhere where you can easily find it. And then go ahead
and run that driver installation program to install the driver. And then you
can go ahead and plug this thing in. If your driver successfully installed and
everything is working properly, you want to go ahead and plug your USB cable in.
You have a little small end at a right angle... this goes into your tablet.
You want to look on the top-left corner of the tablet. It actually goes with the cord
facing out which makes sense. I tried to plug it in the other way.
Don't try to force it if it doesn't go in.
It should snap in easily on its own. And then the other end
is a USB plug. You've probably seen this before. It's just plugs into your computer
Now the cord isn't terribly long so you may have to plug it into the
front USB port on your computer, if you have one. If you're using a laptop then it's not going to
be a problem at all.
Now if you don't want to use the USB connection, you can get an optional
wireless adapter for this tablet. We'll take a look at how to install the
wireless adapter a little later in the video. So let's go ahead and plug the tablet into
your computer. And then you want to test to see that your tablet is working.
So the way this tablet works is, where you hover your pen on your tablet is going to
determine where the cursor is on your screen. So if I want to point to the top
left of my screen, I'll point to the top left my tablet. If I want to point to the
bottom right of my screen, I'll point to the bottom right of the tablet.
If you just pick the pen up, the cursor will follow as you move around the tablet.
You can also use touch to control your cursor. If you want to turn
touch on and off, look on the top edge of the tablet over on the right.
There's a switch to turn touch off. I recommend that, for now, you go
ahead and turn the touch off so that your hand doesn't interfere with the pen
while you're getting this set up. So if your pen is moving your cursor,
that's great. If it's moving the cursor on the wrong screen or it's not taking the full
size of your screen in to account when you're moving the pen... like for instance here...
I can't even see where my cursor is at when I move it over here. But if I move it
over here, I can see it. So my cursor is going onto my other screen
that is off to the side. So we need to go into the Wacom Tablet Properties
and configure this. So go ahead and go into your control panel and
you want to look under Wacom Tablet Properties. And this window
will pop up here which will let you configure all of the features on the
tablet like the Express keys, the pen pressure and the touch feature. So let's
go ahead and take a look at some of the basic settings and we'll come back to
some of the more advanced customization later. Mainly, we want to look at Mapping
because right now I'm having a Mapping problem.
My pen is moving across all of my monitors and I really just want it to move across the
monitor I'll be using for drawing and painting. That's going to be my primary
monitor right here in front of me. So we want to look here under Screen Area and
right now it's set to Full. Let's go ahead and change that to "Monitor 1".
Monitor 1 is actually the monitor that I want to be using here. And the now you can see
instantly see that if I point to the top-right corner of the tablet, my cursor goes to the
top-right corner of the screen. If I point to the bottom-left of the tablet, the cursor goes to the
bottom-left of the screen. So it doesn't work like a mouse would. With a mouse,
when you pick the mouse up, the mouse cursor stays wherever it was. The cursor moves relative
to your movements of the mouse. This pen is basically like pointing
to somewhere on your screen. A lot of people ask the question, "how am I supposed to know
where to draw if I can't see anything on the tablet?" You will have your tablet right
in front of you and you will be drawing on it while looking up at the screen.
You can see your cursor while you're drawing. We'll take a look at some demos of drawing a
little bit later. But for now, let's just make sure that our tablet is working properly.
So now that we have the mapping issue worked out, there are a few other
things that you might want to tweak here. If we go into Options, you may want to
switch this to left-handed if you're left-handed rather than right. If we look
under the Pen tab, this is where we can change the pressure sensitivity. If you just
press with your pen, you can see on this little gauge here is actually showing you
the level of pressure being applied. If you're having difficulty getting a nice range of
pressure, you may want to change the Tip Feel. Now I tend to press really firmly
when I draw, so I like to set this towards firm. So if you press firmly,
you'll set it towards firm. If you draw lightly, you'll want to set that more towards soft.
And now it's easier for me to get that range of pen pressure that I want
while I'm drawing. If we look under Tablet, there the options for the Express Keys.
And if you want to set these up now, you can. If not, we can come back to these later
and set them up together. I have some suggestions on what will work really
well for these express keys. It's important to note that when you're
setting up these presets, there is a preset for "All" which will
control everything. And then you can add particular applications here...
For example, I can have particular shortcuts set up just for Photoshop. So when I open
Photoshop, the tablet's express keys are gonna work a certain way in Photoshop.
To have them work differently in Corel Painter, I can add an application preset by clicking the + icon
to add another program to the list. You want to make sure that you have the
right application preset selected when you're customizing this because it is easy to
have the wrong one selected and mess up your presets. Let's go ahead and just exit out
of the Wacom Tablet Properties and let's go into the digital painting
application of your choice. If you have the bundled version of Corel Painter Essentials,
you could open that up. Or you can open up Photoshop or ArtRage. Or you can get a
free trial for Corel Painter 2016 if you want to try that. There is also free
program called Krita which you can download. You just need something that you can use to
test to make sure that your pen works. You'll want to make sure that application
supports pen pressure because things like Microsoft painter are not gonna support pen pressure.
So if your tablet is moving the cursor properly, that's good. And if
you press it down with your pen, then you should make a line. And if you press down lightly,
that line should get thinner. If you press down hard, it should get thicker. If you're not getting
that pen pressure, you need to double check and make sure that your tablet
Tip Feel is set properly. And you want to make sure that you're pressing down hard
enough or light enough so that you can actually get a range of pressure.
You can press down pretty hard... not so hard that your gonna break anything,
but definitely make sure that you're pressing down hard enough. And if that's
not working, then you may want to try installing a different driver or
reinstalling the current driver. Or possibly unplugging the tablet, then plugging
it into a different USB port. Or restart your computer. Or a
combination of those things should get your pen pressure working.
You should also make sure that pen pressure is enabled in the application are you using because in
Photoshop here, I can actually disable pen pressure. Now I don't have any pen
pressure after clicking on this icon at the top. So you want to make sure that
pressure is actually turned on in that application. So forgive me because I'm just
gonna draw scribbles. I've had people make fun of me in previous videos
saying, "This guy doesn't know how to draw." Well, as a matter of fact, you can watch many of my
other videos... I have 500 other videos where you can watch me draw some
pretty awesome stuff. I'm just trying to make this tutorial as quick as possible
so I'm just showing you how the tablet works. So pen pressure is working in
Photoshop. That's excellent. We'll try some other programs a little bit later.
Now let's go ahead and take a look at touch. We can go and turn that back on by
clicking on a little switch here. And then let's try touching and let's see what happens.
Now this works just like a mouse would. If I pick my finger up, it doesn't matter
where I put my finger back down on the tablet. It's gonna move the cursor from
wherever it was. So touch works just like your mouse. And the cool thing is, you
can pinch with two fingers. And see how I can zoom in and out? I can also a rotate
the page by twisting with two fingers. And if I double and triple tap,
I can activate some different gesture-based commands, depending on what I have set up in my
Wacom Tablet Properties for the touch.