• Zooming & Controlling Brush Sizes
The Touch Strip on the right can be set to Zoom-in and out by sliding your finger up and down. Quick screen operation can be done right at your fingertips.
Set the left Touch Strip to control the brush size. Increase productivity by controlling the brush size quickly with the Touch Strip. No need to go back to the brush palette every time you need to adjust the brush size.
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• Hand Tool
Set an ExpressKey to the "Hand Tool". Zooming and moving the screen can be done quickly and smoothly.
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• Switching the Brush Palette
Set an ExpressKey to Switch to the brush palette.
Pen adjustments such as turning pressure sensitivity on and off and changing brush settings can be applied quickly and smoothly.
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• Gamut Warning
A color that can be displayed in RGB may be out of gamut, and therefore unprintable, for your CMYK setting. By using the Gamut Warning command, all pixels outside the gamut of the current proof profile space will be highlighted.
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Preview of out-of-gamut colors with grey chosen for the gamut warning color. |
• File Browser
Setting the File Browser to an ExpressKey is also useful.
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• Variety of 1024-level pressure sensitive Tools
Many of the Tools in the Tool Box are tablet compliant, having 1024-level pressure sensitivity.
Pressure Sensitivity
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Brush thickness/thinness, color darkness |
 
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By utilizing the tablet's pressure sensitivity, the amount of strength applied to the pen naturally controls the tool setting, giving smoothness and intuitiveness to the work process.
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• Tilt Function
Diverse expressions can be created utilizing the Tilt function . to tilt the pen.
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Tilting the pen forward |
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Tilting the pen backward |
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• Intuos3 Airbrush Fingerwheel
With the Intuos3 Airbrush (optional), brush size and ink flow can also be controlled by the fingerwheel.
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| In addition to the pressure sensitivity of the pen tip, the fingerwheel can also express 1024 levels of sensitivity. |
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| Activate the Intuos2 Airbrush by selecting the "Stylus Wheel". |
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• Retouch images using the Brush Tool (Adjustment Layer)
By using tablets, image retouching can be done just like coloring a drawing. Especially when you need to retouch just a portion of an image, using the Adjustment Layer with the Brush Tool lets you get the work done quickly and intuitively.
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Retouch Hint
Retouch the color shade of the fish, and make the image look as delicious as if you had seen it with your own eyes.
STEP 1
Click the New Adjustment Layer button in the Layer Palette, and adjust the Levels of the fish color.
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By coloring the area outside the fish (areas that didn't need to be retouched during STEP 1.) with a black brush, the Level adjustment effects will return to its original state.
On the other hand, coloring the area with a white brush will allow the Level adjustment effects to reappear.
The effects are also pressure sensitive, as you can control the strength of the effect applied/erased by your pen pressure. If you color in lightly, the effects will be erased slightly, and if you color in strongly, the effect will be erased completely, thus enabling detailed color shade adjustments of images.
Black area (strong pressure sensitivity) = Adjustment completely erased
Grey area (light pressure sensitivity) = Adjustment slightly erased
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• Cutting out an image with the Brush Tool (Quick Mask Mode)
By using a tablet together with Quick Mask Mode, complicated images and shapes can be cut out quickly and precisely.
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Click "Quick Mask Mode".
Choose "Selected Area" for color indication in the Quick Mask Options dialog box.
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Color in and select complicated parts (human hair) by zooming in and adjusting the brush size.
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When selecting complicated areas such as human hair, since pressure sensitivity can adjust both brush size and image opacity, gently and lightly coloring in the hair will result in a neat and precise mask. |
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The masked (selected) area |
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• Color Replacement Tool
By using the Color Replacement Tool, a targeted color can be replaced easily while maintaining texture and highlight.
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The Color Replacement Tool is also pressure sensitive. |
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Replacing the original image color with pink. |
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