Can Photoshop switch brushes depending on Wacom Pen

Hey there!

I run Mirage for most of my 2D animation work, and there's this really nifty feature that if I switch my Wacom pen it remembers the last setting of that pen.

So, if I use my main pen and have it setup to one brush then another pen it will automatically switch to the last brush used selected with that pen. So effectively I can have a blue line pen and black line pen and switch between them without hitting a brush preset.

Can Photoshop be setup to automatically switch my brush depending on the pen?

I posted this to CGTalk quite some time ago, with no answers.

Thanks!
David Kennedy

I remember I had this working in an older version Photoshop (7 I think) but it may have required a plug-in which was part of the old Wacom Pentools plug-ins you could download from their website.

It remembered the settings and last tool selected when I switched from the Wacom airbrush to the ordinary Wacom pen but I tend to just use the pen these days. I will give it a try with Photoshop CS2 when I get home and report back.

Thanks Dave!

I've become really fond of the marker tool and have a marker brush setup that feels about right. But I only use that tool with that brush (since the rotation is apparent), and it'd be nice to switch it out automatically.

I have tried it out on my home setup:
Photoshop CS2 running on XP-SP2 (32bit)
Intuos 9x12 Driver 6.05-7 with an Airbrush and a standard Pen

Photoshop does not detect the different tools or remember the last settings used for each tool. :(

Looking on the Wacom website it talks about the Pen ID plug-in for Photoshop but says it only works for versions 5.0 and 5.5

I’m sure Photoshop 7 could detect the tools without the plug-in but I don’t have it installed anymore so can not be certain.

It may work with the newer Intuos 2 or 3 I’m still using a serial port Intuos original bought back in the pre-USB days (shows how well made they are :) )

"(shows how well made they are)" - true, they are amazing in that respect.

There should be a plug-in for this if there isn't. I have two pens and have different mapping settings for each, this of course works fine because the driver identifies each pen seperately. You can also configure the pen buttons differently on each.

So there should in theory be a plug-in or script that could select a different brush each time you swap.