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Fixing Pen Cursor Offset

By Fontes

Are your lines showing AWAY from where you stroke with your tablet's pen? Check this short guide for the most common cause, and the solution.

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Category: Modding or Configuration

Languages: English

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21 Sep, 2017 @ 9:33pm

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Guide Index

Overview

1. The problem.

2. The solution.

Comments

1. The problem.

As the image up there illustrates, the lines will appear away from your mouse cursor, which is also where you are physically moving your pen. This is called an offset. In most cases it will show to the left of the cursor, though not always.

2. The solution.

This one is pretty straight-forward. Check the bottom-right of openCanvas' main window.

The Tablet and Coordinate fields are clickable, and thus changeable. You can fuss around with them to see what changes, but to fix the offset issue you'll most likely only need to change the Coordinates to OS, rather than Tablet.

... PortalGraphics (the developer) really needs to update it so OS is the default setting. Anyway, that alone outta fix your issue. Just to make sure restart OC, though it MIGHT not be necessary.

If after fussing with the coordinate settings AND restarting OC your issue is STILL not fixed (either partially or at all), then you might want to check your pen tablet's drivers. Look for any settings related with calibration.

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WillCifits 27 Jul, 2021 @ 10:13pm

Essentially, I spent $60 on the Wish.com version of Photoshop Lite. XD. I just started noticing it doing that recently. I look down over on steam and see this guide glad it was something that I could fix. The irony with this program is that a month later I found out about the Humble Bundle sale that had Painter and PaintShop Pro for the starting price of $30. I would have got a refund too had it not been for one feature. The ablitiy to rotate the reference. I initially liked it because my Photoshop Metadata could be used with it. As well as, its usage of the Photoshop workflow. I've moved on to a more painter focused workflow.

Whole Milk 27 Apr, 2021 @ 8:28am

I just tried to get a refund on this program because of this. I'm new to digital art, but this shit isn't happening in RageArt, which I got to download for free after registering my pen display.

Fortonani 8 Nov, 2020 @ 7:57am

At first it did not work, but then I pressed to the left where it says Tablet 2 (this is in my case) and then everything works, if it does it again, I will repeat the steps to fix it. It's a strange problem, why haven't they fixed it?

fartfunny 26 Feb, 2020 @ 5:59pm

for some reason i cant change it what so ever lol

girl in a wolf hoodie 22 Jun, 2018 @ 2:17pm

hello i wanted to ask is there a way to change the brush names to engilsh ?

Fontes [author] 22 Sep, 2017 @ 7:26pm

Btw, @glitcher: ... this also happens with Wacom users.

Fontes [author] 22 Sep, 2017 @ 7:18pm

Another thing I got: to pay the rent. :V

glitcher 22 Sep, 2017 @ 5:55pm

That's what you get for using a dodgy Huion tablet instead of the trademark Wacom tablet. Fontes. Still having trouble fixing the pen offset in Krita, hmm?

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