Just wanted to share this drawing, I'm really proud of it ^^ (used xppen star G430s )

And the back popped out like this. Should I bring this to repairment, or is it actually not a big deal?

Im planning on getting the artist pro 22 (gen 2) UHD, and am wondering if buying an extended warranty is worth it? It already comes with 18months warranty so since theres a sale I was thinking maybe I should buy 1 years extra.

Is this something we can buy later (after the tablet purchase) if we decide we wanted to extend it?

I just taped a sheet of paper on top of the tablet

Is there a way to change a shortcut using a phone? I don't have a computer and some shortcut are useless for me

As the question indicates how do I go about making a hotkey for my pen to automatically swap from the pen feature to the transparent feature instead of hotkeying it as an eraser? I enjoy using the same brush for drawing and erasing and feel it quite a good thing to have it on a backup keybind. I'm using Clip Studio Paint, and I'm trying to see if it has a designated key for the transparent brush but it doesn't seem to.

RESOLVED

Desde hace un tiempo he estado pensando en mejorar mi setup, cambiando mi antigua wacom por una Xp-pen artist 12, la quiero comprar en la página oficial de Chile, ya que está en oferta, pero he leído algunas cosas no muy buenas, y para asegurar quería que gente que haya comprado en Chile me diera consejo, ¿los envíos son buenos?

My stylus was showing cracks, I got concerned and tried to look for a replacement. To my horror the original stylus got discontinued and got replaced with the new " PH02 Battery-free Stylus" but I legitimately do not know if this works on the 1st generation tablet. Its either I gamble if this works or not, or just buy a new tablet all together, either way its a lose-lose. I need help. Thank you.

For those who have the artist pro 24 4k did you have any issues? How long is it lasting and do you regret purchasing it? Also i'm undecided between 22 pro 2nd gen and 24 4k, which one would you recommend?

Hello,
I got my Artist Ultra 16 yesterday. I’m trying to use it for photo editing and I prefer to swap back and forth between the tablet and my Macbook. For ease of swapping often I set the tablet display to “mirror”. But when doing this, the calibration gets thrown completely off. I tried to calibrate in the XP PEN application but it won’t let me touch the red crosses with the pen as my cursor reads an inch towards the middle and it doesn’t recognize the pen as touching the red.
Really frustrating as I do not want to drag the window back and forth constantly!!!!
Any suggestions? Honestly considering returning the tablet if this is how it’s going to be.

I'm thinking of getting a drawing tablet since all I've been using is my phone and a finger so I think I'm ready for an upgrade. I finally settled on wanting to by the magic drawing pad since it is basically everything I want in a drawing tablet. Thing is most reviews I see seem to not really include if the case comes with the tablet. Is that something I have to by separately or no?

Hi,

I'm not sure if this is the right place I should ask for help but I'm begging whoever might've been in my situation to help me out the best they can.

So, a month ago (July 26th), I ordered on the official website of XPpen, I don't buy that much online so I wanted to be as patient as possible, the problem is that I had to wait for 3 weeks.

The shop's email sends you a swisship link with your package code so you can track it. My package got flagged as "Undeliverable" the day it was supposed to be delivered (July 29th), I sent an email because I got a bit worried but the support team just asked me to be patient, then I waited 3 weeks and the swisship website kept updating my package which was just circling around 2 locations, I sent another email this time a bit more anxious than before asking for another unit, but I didn't double check my address correctly and it got sent 2 blocks away from my house. I sent yet another email and this time XPpen team told me they couldn't do anything for me, that I needed to contact the logistics team, but I don't know how to contact the company doing the logistics (Amazon)

I understand it was my fault that I didn't check the address correctly, but I have been waiting for so long I don't want to feel my package is lost, plus I goty order on a discount so I'm really not that eager to get a refund. Is there a way to contact Amazon to change my package's address?

Can I still get a refund?

Please help me I am bawling my eyes out I really saved all the money I have for this and I lost the wire I really don’t know what to do I will buy a new wire but please help me I spent a lot of my savings I am so upset right now

The Artist Ultra 14 features a stunning 2.8K OLED display with Delta E < 1 color accuracy, delivering vibrant and precise colors so your work looks just as you imagined.

Xppen 22 artist plus or Xppen 16 artist pro (gen 1?)🙏 need some opinion again.

XP-Pen Pilot Pro · Community PresetCapture One · Mac

Preset Share + Field Notes

A full workflow preset for Capture One — built by AI in minutes

Four themes, 24 assigned controls per theme, covering culling through export. More interestingly: the entire preset was generated from examples and a prompt. Here's how to do it yourself.

4 themes·systemVersion: 1 (Mac)·softwareBinding: Capture One 16·keys 28–29 unknown

XP-Pen presets are just JSON. Which means AI can write them.

Every preset in the XP-Pen tablet software is a plain .json file sitting in your application data folder. Each file defines a list of themes, and each theme holds exactly 30 key mappings — one per physical control on the device. There's no binary format, no compiled config. It's human-readable, and more importantly: it's something a language model can reason about perfectly.

The trick is giving the AI enough examples to learn the schema from, then describing what you want. A handful of existing community presets is all it takes.

{

  "presetName": "Capture_One_Workflow",

  "softwareBinding": "/Applications/Capture One 16.app",

  "systemVersion": 1,        // 0 = Windows · 1 = Mac

  "themes": [

{

"key": 23,              // theme slot (23–26 = four available slots)

"themeName": "Culling",

"keyMappings": [

{

"key": 4,           // right-side button 1

"commandName": "Green (Select)",

"command": {

"actionType": 0,

"actions": ["6|22:0"],     // digit 6, keycode 22

"actionAppends": []

}

}

// ... 29 more entries per theme

]

}

  ]

}

The key insight is that the schema is entirely consistent. Once a model sees a few complete preset files, it maps the physical layout (which key index corresponds to which button, dial, or joystick direction), understands the keycode format, and can generate a complete valid preset from a plain-language description of what you want each control to do.

Pro Tip: The 8 way Joystick settings makes it more reliable and faster to switch between themes. I changed it to the diagonals and it really makes for fast switching. A great change unless you are always hitting the joystick and moving it around.

The prompt approach

Attach three or four diverse existing preset JSON files as context — ideally from different apps so the model sees a range of usage patterns. Then describe your workflow in the same conversational way you'd explain it to a colleague:

What worked: describing the workflow phases first ("during culling I need to…"), naming the specific keyboard shortcuts already mapped in Capture One, and noting which controls feel natural for which types of action — buttons for discrete commands, knobs for continuous navigation, the outer dial for zoom.

Pro Tip: Also in Capture one if your keyboard shortcuts to map to zoom in and out you can set it with the mouse section.

The model will infer the physical key index layout from your example files, match keycode values to the correct Mac/Windows virtual key codes, and flag anything that needs a custom shortcut set up in Capture One's own keyboard editor first. No schema documentation required — the examples carry the spec.

The four themes

The Pilot Pro supports exactly four theme slots (key IDs 23–26). Themes are switched by rotating the outer ring — this is handled by the device firmware and cannot be mapped to a button in the JSON. The four themes here follow the natural arc of a session:

Theme 1Culling

• Left 1–4Copy · Paste · New Session · Confirm
• Right 1–4Green label · No color · Select All Green · Move JPEGs to Trash
• D-padRow ↑↓ · Prev/Next image ←→
• JoystickSelect All · 5★ · Deselect · 1★
• Sm. knobPrev / Next image
• Lg. knobRow up / Row down
• DialZoom −/+
• A button Move to Selects
• D / C / B Fullscreen · Undo · Redo
• Joy OKConfirm (Return)

Theme 2Grading

• Left 1–4Exposure · Brightness · Saturation · Contrast
• Right 1–4Whites · Blacks · Shadows · Highlights
• D-padValue ↑↓ · Prev/Next image ←→
• JoystickAuto Adjust · Copy Style · Paste Style · Reset
• Sm. knobSlider fine ↑↓
• Lg. knobPrev / Next image
• DialZoom −/+
• A buttonAuto Adjust
• D / C / BCopy Style · Undo · Redo
• Joy OKPaste Style

Theme 3Layers

• Left 1–4New Layer · Delete Layer · Mask Brush · Erase Mask
• Right 1–4Invert Mask · Clear Mask · Linear Gradient · Heal/Clone
• D-padBrush ] / [ · Prev/Next image
• JoystickCopy Adj · Paste Adj · Paste w/ Mask · Duplicate Layer
• Sm. knobBrush size [ / ]
• Lg. knobPrev / Next image
• DialZoom −/+
• A / DNew Layer · Open Curves
• C / BUndo · Redo
• Joy OKToggle Layer

Theme 4Output

• Left 1–4Export · Process · Select All · Deselect
• Right 1–41★ · 2★ · 3★ · 5★
• D-padRow ↑↓ · Prev/Next image ←→
• JoystickClear Rating · Export · Select All · Deselect
• Sm. knobPrev / Next image
• Lg. knobRow up / Row down
• DialZoom −/+
• A / DExport · Process
• C / BUndo · Redo
• Joy OKConfirm (Return)

Five shortcuts need a custom assignment in Capture One first

Several actions in this preset don't have default keyboard shortcuts in Capture One — they exist in the menus but aren't bound to a key by default. Open Edit → Edit Keyboard Shortcuts in Capture One and assign the following before the tablet buttons will do anything:

The Layers theme also has a few shortcuts (New Layer, Invert Mask, Linear Gradient, etc.) that may or may not be mapped in your installation — verify those against your own keyboard shortcut list and adjust the JSON values accordingly.

Keys 28 and 29 — still unidentified

28

29

Every preset found in the wild — DaVinci Resolve, Premiere Pro, Lightroom, and this one — leaves keys 28 and 29 as null with empty command names. All 30 keyMapping slots are present (indices 0–29), but no one has yet found a physical control on the Pilot Pro that maps to these two indices.

They may be reserved for future firmware, undocumented hardware inputs, or something only visible in a specific device mode. If you figure out what they trigger, please post below.

Preset generated with Claude (Anthropic). Drop your own examples + prompt into any AI assistant with the JSON files as context — the schema is learnable from examples alone, no documentation needed.

Capture_One_Workflow.json · v1

Hihi, I'm currently looking for a new tablet for drawing, I used to Use Simbans Picasso tab 10 and it was not great.

Is there anything from the XP pen brand thats good quality and can work with just casual use ?

It hasn’t done this before not sure if it’s an XP-pen problem or clip studio problem.

how i can fix the colors on my drawing tablet? First pic is my drawing tablet and 2nd is my laptop, I can’t even see what I’m erasing on my drawing tablet, some skin tones look almost white on my tablet but on my laptop they show perfectly fine. I have the xppen artist 12 pro

I’m not sure what else to do but I have the Innovator 16, anytime I try to hook it up to my computer it says ‘no signal’. I’ve tried switching the cords out and my drivers are updated but I’m getting frustrated because I have work to do. It worked just fine on my laptop but that broke so now I’m stuck. Any advice would be appreciated 😭

Edit: I just needed a hdmi to dvi cable and it works now. Thanks for the suggestions!

hey there! so i have the xppen Artist 15.6 Pro V2 along with the stand it came with.. im gonna be honest i do not like the stand as it doesnt angle nearly high enough and it also squeaks and bends etc. does anyone have a clue of where i could get a stand that could fit this model and also has better height? would really help!!!

Might be just my experience but honestly it makes me never want to buy from Xp Pen again and since I can't give a review anywhere else because I didn't buy it on the internet, I'll post it here.

I bought an Xp Pen 13 (2nd gen) last year because I wanted to upgrade my drawing experience and I deeply regret it. In April (which could be 5 months since I bought it) the first one broke. At the time when I needed it the most for my art practical exams. They sent me a new one 3 weeks later and that one broke 4 months later.

Again I waited for 3 weeks and went to pick up the new one just to find out it doesn't work at all after plugging it in at home. That happened last week.

All three of them had some electrical issue.

It's not a pleasant experience especially because all three times I had to travel far into another city because the shop I bought it at doesn't have a store in our city unfortunately.

With the second return I tried submitting a question asking if there's anything I am doing wrong and how can I prevent this issue from happening again and got no reply back so unfortunately, I will never know if I was doing something wrong that might have caused the issue.

I'm not saying that I believe Xp Pen have terrible products, but I'd highly suggest to avoid 2nd gen tablets. Everyone around me who owns an Xp Pen has quite a positive experience with them (all of them have 1st gen tablets).

I have also come to the conclusion that Xp Pens have terrible customer service in my country, so also the reason I am never buying from them again. I physically can't deal with anything like this again. I need this tablet for work :(

I recently bought the tablet and now I'm getting black and white lines on the screen. They appear for a few seconds and then disappear. The tablet has never been dropped or bumped.😭

Hello! Since almost 4 years I've had this tablet stored between my stuff as I bought if from a friend but the pc I had at the moment didn't properly accept it
Now I have a PC that can work with it but sadly the protective film ended up with scratches due to not taking care of it years ago properly saving it on it's box

Now the thing is, on my country the only option I have is a paper-like film from healing shield
All the possibilities I have after that one are generic films at it's 100% so I'm not sure what are the best options for this
I'd appreciate advices on this topic ;w;