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I saw another wacom thread and remembered to mention this. I got a wacom a week or so ago from ebay, brand new, works like a beut. I love it and use it all the time already.
Ok and for those who don't have a tablet or are considering buying one.. perhaps you could expand on this by telling them WHY you love it? What is it about using a tablet that you feel helps you to further your graphics abilities?
I actually have an Aiptek tablet. While it is in no way any comparison to the Wacom, I find it very useful in the fact that just the pressure sensitivity makes it much easier to paint and shade things...
The Aiptek is about $250 less than the Wacom tablets too.
Ok... it's been a long while since I've posted a thing... but this one caught my attention.
I'm the proud father (several years, now) of a WACOM Intuous2... and I love it. It's used in different methods depending on what computer it's hooked up to. I may be one of the few people in this world that carries around a Wacom in their briefcase. But for work, this is indespensible. I'm using a PowerBook G4 and the tablet is a comfortable extension and far surpases any mouse (read, rock) I've tried with the Mac. After a short time, it becomes more intuitive than a mouse in that your hand naturally goes to the area it needs to. I like to think of it as "user sensitivity". It's gives depth to a normally static input device.
For home, it's hooked up to a PC and gets a more artistic use. Here, the primary use is sketching, and outlining. The pen and brush tools in PS, Ill and Painter become massively powerful with the pressure and angle sensitivity provided by the tablet. It's truly a freedom I wish more people could experience.
Ok and for those who don't have a tablet or are considering buying one.. perhaps you could expand on this by telling them WHY you love it? What is it about using a tablet that you feel helps you to further your graphics abilities?
yes, good point.
Unlike other tablets, Wacom (the ver. I have, Graphire II, which is 1 ver. old) is pressure sensitive. When in Photoshop, you can set the shape dynamics (under brush presets) to pen pressure... and from there; you can basically sketch what you would on a paper onto the tablet. Having control over pressure is a very useful thing. Not only can you just paint with it, but you can pressure blur and use pressure with many of the other tools. You can make it so the more the pressure the thicker the lines, or you can make it the harder the pressure, the darker the lines. I believe you can make it both too. You don't even have to use it on sketches... just doing my normal dark art, I use it to pressure blur certain areas and pressure airbrush areas. The pen is so much easier to handle than a mouse. It has a eraser on it, so you don?t have to click on the eraser tool in Photoshop, all you have to do is flip the pen around and start erasing. Before I got the Wacom, I wasn?t sure about it because your tablet is a scaled down size of the screen, but if you are drawing, i thought that you couldn?t make a line and then start up another line where you left off. It turns out that since the work area on mine is so small (4x5), it is easier. I also had the thought that the smaller your pad the lesser the detail, which is also not true. Detail all depends on the user and the way the user uses the tool. I haven't had my Wacom for to long, but I've been told by friends that have had their Wacom s for years that they still love them and use it every day. When it comes to using Photoshop, the Wacom tablet comes in handy big time. I got mine for about $63. I believe it costs around $100. Wacom Graphire 2 and 3 are basically the same, it?s just that the software in three is a little bit more enhanced, but I heard that you have the same amount of control and capability with either.
Finally I got my wacom 
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