Photoshop Psuserconfig.txt
Temika
I installed Photoshop CC 2014 this afternoon, and ever since I've had a lot of random, intermittent issues with the pen pressure. It works fine in Illustrator, but in Photoshop, under the Brush panel, the Pen Pressure option has an alert sign next to it, and simply doesn't recognise the tablet as being pressure sensitive. Sometimes, if I turn on "Windows Ink" under the mapping tab, it occasionally works, but not always. And having Windows Ink checked makes selecting things in any other application very laggy (and makes working in Indesign near-impossible)
Photoshop CC 2014 changes stylus use to use Microsoft system API's, with these API's you need to have Windows Ink enabled. These API's give better stroke results and improve the out of the box experience for users using Windows tablet/convertible devices. If you want to go back to the old WinTab implementation of previous versions do the following:
Save the file as a plain text file named PSUserConfig.txt, and save the file into the Photoshop settings folder: C:\Users\[User Name]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CC 2014\Adobe Photoshop CC 2014 Settings\.
Also, Carlos -- I looked at that thread, but I didn't seem to have an issue switching from tablet to mouse. I don't usually flit between them that much anyway, so it wouldn't really be too much of a problem.
Thanks Doctor Bond for having a look at the other thread. Strangely, I managed to fix the pressure sensitivity issue by deleting my wacom tablet preferences (from the wacom utility). I still, I get the lag in mouse mode. It is an issue for me because I am left handed and I use my mouse with my right hand for general tasks, and the pen with my left hand for retouching tasks that benefit from using the pen. So I switch very often.
hi i am on cintiq companion 2 i5 model. and i have encountered the sudden 100% opacity stroke issue. and i have been trying to fix by doing this. but i cannot find the adobe folder or adobe photoshop cc folder tomput the text file in. like after getting to roaming file there is only a folder called intel. please help :s
M Shaw,
Thanks for the info on that PSUserConfig.txt file. I had just got a Huion 1060 plus tablet (I normally use Wacom but the price was too good to pass up). It was intermittently laggy and unusable in Photoshop. I was afraid I was going to have to return it. Which would be a shame since It was working fine in illustrator and other apps.... but Photoshop was the main reason for wanting tablet. Once I applied that txt file config it started drawing as smooth as butter with great pressure range. I hope Adobe keeps this workaround available because I certainly need it for my tablet to work correctly. It now feels more responsive now than my Wacom at work.
I am using Wacom Intous Art with Ps 2018 cc in windows 10, I do not have any AppData folder, every driver is up to date. I even tried to restart the services by going to Administrative tool nothing is working, still showing the Alert sign of pen pressure and it is so frustrating because I can not expect this even I have everything is up to date. Please solve this issue
However... There's nothing actually in this folder at the moment (I've just done a fresh install on a brand new computer), I'm using an Intuos Pro 001-T0001 tablet on a Windows 10 PC. Putting the PSUserConfig.txt file in there doesn't do anything
Yes it works but when doing this trick, the dreaded pen-to-mouse switch lag, that had disappeared in PS CC 2014, appears again. So it's either not having pressure sensitivity, or having lag if we often switch between tablet and physical mouse?
When you save the text doc as PSUserConfig.txt Don't use the .txt extention suffix in the filename! I must have just absent-mindedly taken this off the first time I did it, but I was trying every other possible thing I could yesterday (different drivers, reinstalling PS CC, Windows ink) pretty much any variable and combination I could think of -- and lo and behold, it worked! So yeah, simply name it PSUserConfig, without the .txt, and you should be all set!
Sir. You're my saviour! this was killing me so many days til' i deleted the .txt suffix in the file name. Can't be more happy now thanks to your comment!! now i'll go every forum i've read to tell other persons who wrote that the psuserconfig.txt file didn't work to check this IMPORTANT detail. THANKS!!
All those solutions failed for me I have Wacom tablet and the pressure is working all right in illustrator but in photoshop it is working only when I create new file, when I save and reopen it the pressure stops working. When I open an old file the pressure is not working if I create new file along with the old one opened the pressure is not working. How do I fix this??????? I'm on windows 8.1 with latest wacom drivers installed. Photoshop CC 2014 is up to date. HOW DO I FIX THIS SUPER ANNOYING ISSUE!!!??!?!?!?!!??
YAY it fixed for now. For those who are interested: I first removed photoshop preferences file to no effect, then updated windows to no effect (all adobe support suggestions). After that I almost kicked my cat out of frustration but found inner balance again and tried one more thing:
It would appear that with the new version of Photoshop CC 2015, this issue has arisen again -- however, the Photoshop settings folder: C:\Users\[User Name]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CC 2014\Adobe Photoshop CC 2014 Settings\ now no longer exists in the new program files directory. Anyone know where I can drop the .txt doc?
I had this issue before in the Photoshop 2019, where photoshop do not recognice the pen pressure. I fix it in the 2019 version, by not enabling the windows ink when I am in photoshop, but apparently this trick do not work in the new version, I did try all I could find online and nothing is working.
On Windows 10 my PSUserConfig.txt look like this and Pen pressure works in all versions of Photoshop usinf WinTab APIs includind CC 2020. The some old reportted bugs are still not fixed in CC 2020 though. The new Object Selection tool is and improvement over the quick selection tool
As Wacom Support suggests, turning the Windows Ink in the Wacom driver panel helps. In my case pen pressure is working now, but side pen buttons stopped (I use them as a RMB/MMB). There's no ideal sollution at the moment.
Configures Windows Photoshop CC versions to use Wintab API for Pen control that is not use its default INK API. Your Pend Device driver must be using Wintab API. If that fixes your problem. That Configuration file would not be required for Perpetual versions of Photoshop. They only support Pen via Wintab API. There was no Windows INK feature when those version of Photoshop were developed.
On Windows 8 or later, Photoshop (CC 2014 or later) uses Windows Ink to control the interaction of Photoshop and a stylus device. Using Windows Ink gives you better stroke results and allows you to use your tablet PC or convertible device without having to install a driver.
The same tried and true config file trick I've used for 5+ years is no longer working on Windows 10 (v 1909) with PS 21.2.1 and I'm really chapped. Workflow is basically at a standstill without pressure sensitivity. Anyone have another solution yet? Windows Ink enabled introduces other issues while using the Intuos in PS which are worse than not having pressure sensitivity.
Have you verified your INK problems still exist with Windows 10 version 2004 and Photoshop 2020 version 21.2.1 when your Brush settings are reasonable not a huge size tip with spacing 1% and zoomed way out where a small brush stroke changes millions of pixels.
Adobe broke Photoshop WinTab support in version 20.1 I believe. With Photoshop tool, WinTab support and a Wacom pen I get all sort of wild tool behaviors. Selection to the top left and other bazaar behaviors. I do not have those problems with INK. With other version of Photoshop I use WinTab support. With perpetual version you have no choice for they Only have WinTab support they do not have support INK
With my Windows Touch and pen settings, My Photoshop Brush settings and my Wacom preferences I do not seem to have your Problems on my old dell 2GHZ workstation with a Nvidia Quadro K2200 Display adapter. I do not expect my machine to perform as well as machines with 3.6 GHz processors
Perfectly? That is hard for me to believe. Adobe broke Photoshop WinTab support in the 21.1 . WinTab could be configured and would work but not perfectly. Tools like the Poly Lasso would have problems. That was what I also saw in newer updates including 21.2.1 what you are using. In the 21.2.2 update I could not even get pen pressure to work in Photoshop configured to use WinTab interface.
I meen "Perfectly" in comparison with Windows Ink. Poly Lasso works good, without glitching to the top left. It is known issue for Intuos Pro PTH-451, 651, 851 - In Wireless mode on Windows 7 the pen will occasionally jump to the top left of your monitor. What you can do about it while we fix it: Connect the tablet via the USB cable if you experience this problem. Driver 6.3.40-2 for Windows
You need to go back to version 21.0.3 for WinTab support Adobe broke Photoshop WinTab support in the 21.1 update. WinTab will function is some newer version of Photoshop but not perfectly tool will glitch when used with a pen.
F0cking thanks you! how is it possible that adobe have done 3thousand version and there is still problem on wacom /windows compatibility... why not implementing this very simple script inside the setting menu
@adobe... wtf
WinTab support has been fixed in the 21.2.3 update there is just a minor issue with the Lasso tool with Pen support . You can not pan with the space bar press to switch to the hand tool and pan with your pen.