<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title><style type="text/css">p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div>I got a touch screen Chromebook that I converted, and went through the same process. For pen input graphics, Krita is pretty hard to beat. I haven't really experimented with the GIMP and pen input.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Xournal++ is pretty cool for hand note taking.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I thought I would use the pen input a lot more than I have. The touch screen has been very handy, though. I like being able to touch my way through sites. I've been pretty happy with how well everything worked without me having to do much. The 2-in-1 flip required some script to monitor a orientation device, but other than that, everything pretty much worked.<br></div><div><br></div><div>On Sat, Jun 17, 2023, at 22:40, Billy Croan wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style=""><div dir="auto"><div>I recently got a laptop that has both touch and stylus support in the screen itself. I got a pen and it is connected and it works, even the pressure sensitivity. It's supposed to also communicate the angle of the pen though I have yet to see that.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I'm interested in really learning how to use the GIMP image editor more fully, and make the best use of the stylus for creating things.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I've used GIMP for as long as I have used Linux. I've done a lot with it editing something that started out as a photo or a screenshot or a scan. But I don't think I've really mastered it. Particularly I've always felt awkward creating something from scratch in GIMP. And I suspect that is because a mouse or trackpad don't feel very natural to me as a writing instrument. Well now I have a literal writing instrument that works in Linux!<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I'm not an artist and I'm not trying to learn to make "art". But I would like understand better how to take advantage of different brush strokes and pressure settings, color palettes, etc. and getting more out of the stylus I now have and the creative side of the GIMP as opposed to just the editing as I have done so far.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">There's definitely Photoshop classes and probably a Photoshop Meetup Group. But I have no interest in adobe's products.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I also think this is a skill best passed on in person where you can watch someone's hand and then give feedback that a video or book cannot give.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I'm also interested in other stylus-enabled apps (I have a few to share) and tweaking my Linux environment to be more useful with touch and stylus input. For instance I can tap and drag in Google maps, but I can't pinch to zoom still! I have to tap that damn plus and minus button like a peasant and it's humiliating. I would like to get my touch screen input in Linux working every bit as well, and the same ways as it does in Android.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">So I know touch screen and stylus are kind of two different topics but, any advice?<br></div></div><div>_______________________________________________<br></div><div>KCLUG mailing list<br></div><div><a href="mailto:KCLUG@kclug.org">KCLUG@kclug.org</a><br></div><div><a href="http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug">http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug</a><br></div><div><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div></body></html>