PaintTool SAI is high quality and lightweight painting software, fully digitizer support, amazing antialiased paintings, provide easy and stable operation. How to choose the best Wacom pen tablet for your needs. I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul. Surface Pro Pen Pressure for All. May. 10. 20. 13. Were friends now. They did it After three months of no pen pressure support in programs like Adobe Photoshop, Painter, and Paint Tool SAI, Microsoft and Wacom have worked out a driver for the Surface Pro that fixes it all. Head over here to snag it www. This is a great thing for a couple reasons. Number one, it makes the Surface Pro a useful device no matter what creative programs you run. You can now get one with the confidence that pressure support will work as youd expect across all your major programs. Sweet thin to thick ACTION. Number two, it works very well. Better, in fact, than previous Wacom pressure drivers Ive used on tablet PCs. Remember that Fujitsu T9. It, and other systems like it suffer from less than ideal palm rejection meaning every once in a while your canvas goes SEE YA, Im going over here now because you touched me with your hand before that pen tip, and that hurts me. Theres also typically a weird bug where every fiftieth brush stroke or so, these systems randomly lose pressure support, leaving you with the burden of hitting undo frequently. Granted, the drivers only been out for a day, but so far Ive experienced none of that with the new Wacom driver on the Surface. It works more like what I expect from Microsofts Ink API, where palm rejection and pen pressure are very consistent. This all makes me a happy nerd. The New Hotness. In other news, Ive done another upgrade to my setup in the form of a different pen. This is the Wacom Bamboo Feel I got the Carbon, because its more durable and has a nice weight in my hand. I find it to be more accurate than the stock Surface pen, and more similar to the calibration of the pen on my old Cintiq. Explanation GAH Stop hiding With the stock Surface Pro pen, the little doohickey that says Here I am to your on screen cursor is placed slightly back in the barrel of the pen, instead of the pens tip. This means that the cursor is usually hidden beneath the pen tip instead of being just in front of the pen tip, as youd be used to if you use a Cintiq, or other tablet device. This pictures taken from the side, so you can actually see the cursor, but when viewed normally, facing the screen, you totally cant see it. There are attempted calibration workarounds to this, and I tried them all and found them insufficient. Boom. Switching to the Bamboo Feel, you can see the difference in registration that cursor is right in front of the pen tip, where you expect it to be. This makes joining fine lines in a drawing and picking through tiny interface elements on the Surfaces hi res screen MUCH easier, at least for me. Your mileage may vary, but Id say give it a shot if you arent satisfied with the stock styluss accuracy. Tech blogging complete. Moving back to pretty drawr rings.