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.

Xournal++ is pretty cool for hand note taking.

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.

On Sat, Jun 17, 2023, at 22:40, Billy Croan wrote:

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.

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.

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!

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.

There's definitely Photoshop classes and probably a Photoshop Meetup Group. But I have no interest in adobe's products.

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.

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.

So I know touch screen and stylus are kind of two different topics but, any advice? _______________________________________________ KCLUG mailing list [email protected] http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug