App compatibility with drawing tablets

Summary

Once the tablet drivers are installed, All applications are compatible with drawing tablets. Pen-aware apps (such as Krita) can make use of features such as pressure and tilt.

All apps

All applications - even an app that is not "pen-aware" that app easily be used with a drawing tablet. These kinds of apps simply treat the drawing tablet as mouse. In fact they don't even know that a drawing tablet is being used.

• Changing position - instead of moving the mouse -> you move the pen

• Clicking - instead of pressing a mouse button -> you tap the pen on the tablet

• Double clicking - instead of pressing a mouse button -> you tap the pen on the tablet in the same location rapidly

• Dragging - instead of pressing a mouse button and then moving the mouse -> press down on the tablet with the pen (do not lift up) and then move the pen

• Right-clicking - instead of clicking the right mouse button -> You press a button on the mouse

Apps that are pen-aware

Some apps are pen aware. These apps are designed with the possibility (or even expectation) that a drawing tablet may be used. Typical examples are creative apps Krita, Clip Studio Paint, Photoshop, etc.

These apps can take advantage of additional features of the drawing tablet such as pressure sensitivity and tilt sensitivity.