How to use a wacom drawing tablet with a Chromebook

Do you want to convert your Chromebook into a portable drawing device? Well, Chromebooks and WACOM Drawing Tablet really make a fairly pair together. Plug-end-play experience is almost innocent, making the chromebook correct on-a-go drawing companion.

If you have never heard Vacom tablets Earlier, I should make a brief introduction of some best consumer drawing tablets that you will use anytime.

WACOM has some models of drawing tablets to choose from. WACOM has drawing tablets with and without displays with underlying performances, which depend on what you are looking at. In addition, some pills require a Bluetooth connection, while others are just more than USB-C.

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Drawing tablets come in disturbances of different prices, but they all seem to be the same glasses. Popular drawing tablets are actually different from each other, and which one is right for you?

A drawing tablet is a slate that uses a pressure-sensitive pen, allowing you to attract something else on your screen, sketches, write, write, or do anything. Some chrombooks have a built -in touchscreen that allows you to do so, and some also come with stylus.

However, if you want the most accurate drawing experience, or if you want to add drawing capabilities to a chrombook that did not come with touchscreen, the drawing tablet lineup of Wakom is perfect for you.

For this article, I am going to use WACOM One 13.3-inch drawing tablet with display, which has a USB-C connection for my Chromebook. If you choose for one of those drawing tablets instead, I will still give some guidance.

My wacom supports only a USB-C connection, not Bluetooth. The USB-C provides power, display and touch input for chromebook.

Your Chromebook needs to support the USB-C display output for this, which is to work better. If this is not the case in your Chromebook, it will still work, but not only a tablet and not as secondary performance.

If your WACOM is Bluetooth-capable, you can just open your Chromebook Bluetooth settings, click on the pair new device, and the tablet should be seen there (once in pairing mode).

In fact, it is equally simple to plug the tablet in USB-C (or pair on Bluetooth) as the installation of WACOM drawing tablets on a chromebook. It requires only one connection to function, even if two wacoms are available on one.

Chromeos automatically identifies the tablet and identifies the pen input

Once wacom one is plugged into my Chromebook, it automatically explored the tablet and began to identify the pen input. I was a little surprised how innocent it was, but it really worked.

As my wacom is the performance of one, Chromebook immediately enhanced my main display and added WACOM as another screen. It placed the pen input menu only at the bottom of Vacom, not the main screen, which was another surprise.

Kalam worked immediately and whatever I tried in it. It served as a mouse input for things like chrome, or when I was drawing as stylus. There was not a single thing that I tried to do what did not work properly.

The best thing is that I had no really a driver to install and I did not have to configure it to work. It was just plug-end-play.

Pressure sensitivity is slightly hit or missed

Now for not-so-like part: Everything does not work perfectly when using a WACOM tablet in Chromos. Yes, all WACOM Tablets will work originally with chromos. However, pressure-sensitive drawing is not yet part of Chromebook’s operating system.

However, there are some work -round here. If your Chromebook supports Play Store, you can download some Android apps, and they will usually support pressure-sensitive input. Sketchbooks, infinite painters, and others usually support pressure-sensitive drawing.

If your Chromebook supports Linux, you can also use an app like KRITA or GIMP. Some Linux apps work properly with pressure-sensitive drawing, and others do not, change in the list all the time. So your mileage may be slightly different here.

For me, GIMP installed on Linux through APT worked properly with pen input, but it did not work for pressure-sensitive drawing. On the other hand, the sketchbook from the Play Store worked out of the box for pressure-sensitive drawing.

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