A tablet is much easier to draw neatly with than a trackpad. Cue Canvas treats one as an ordinary pointer, so there is nothing to set up.
Wacom, XP-Pen, Huion and similar
Plug it in and draw. The pen moves the pointer, and Cue Canvas follows the pointer, so it works the same way your mouse does.
Set the tablet to absolute (or “pen”) mode rather than relative mouse mode in its own driver. Absolute mode maps the tablet surface to the screen, so the corner of the tablet is the corner of the screen and you can hit a spot without looking for the cursor first.
Pressure sensitivity
Not implemented yet. Strokes come out at the width you picked, however hard you press.
There is a Pressure modulation toggle in Settings. It does nothing at the moment. The setting is stored and the ink path does not read it. It is left visible rather than hidden because it is a real planned feature, but it will not change your strokes today.
Use the [ and ] keys to change thickness instead.
iPad with Sidecar
Sidecar makes the iPad a second display, and Cue Canvas puts an overlay on every display, so you can draw on the iPad with an Apple Pencil.
Two things to know:
- Each display keeps its own drawings and its own undo history. Undoing on the Mac does not remove something you drew on the iPad.
- We have not tested Sidecar on our rig. It should work, because it is an ordinary second display as far as macOS is concerned, but it has not been checked.
Drawing on one display while sharing another
That works, and it is worth knowing about. Drawings stay on the display you drew them on, so you can keep notes on your laptop screen while the projector or the shared display stays clean.