OMG IM STUPID!

Im actually really doubting my intellect as of late, the pen and tablet that I have had for nearly five years has basically been working as a glorified mouse! I was working away on my character when my teacher noticed something, he said have I got the pen pressure on? and I said yes because the icon is selected in photoshop saying so..... not the case.... the whole time I have had the tablet I never installed the driver that came with it because I thought it worked just fine because you just plug it in and away you go..... *face palm*..... so the basic tools like pressure and opacity hadnt been working at all and thats why I been faced with some difficulty with my work because I was individually sieving through EVERY colour tone to get shadows and highlights and having to manually change my brush sizes when I could just have utilised the pen pressure ability. Oh dear jess..... So with the help and patience of my teacher (who wasnt even teaching me at the time he just noticed it walking past me) downloaded and installed the correct driver from the website. Now the graphics tablet is an entirely new experience for me to work with in short its bloody brilliant! cant believe how difficult I had been making it for myself over these years! You can see the difference below, this only took me like half an hour!