Graphics tablet recommendations?

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Rick
Jun 19, 2005
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I am looking to get a graphics tablet for Photoshopping. Has anyone any recommendations about which one to get?

What is the smallest one that is useful?
Any makers to look at apart from Wacom?
Any specific models to look at?
Which one(s) Just Work with Tiger?

cheers!

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Fu22y
Jun 19, 2005
Wacom is the best. You can look at other ones, but none are as good, in my opnion, as a Wacom. I currently work with a number of them. The WACOM/Monitor tablet is one of the best. I think it is called Cinq.
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Kingdom
Jun 19, 2005
The Rev Gaston wrote in news:3hkogdFgvsahU1
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I am looking to get a graphics tablet for Photoshopping. Has anyone any recommendations about which one to get?

What is the smallest one that is useful?
Any makers to look at apart from Wacom?
Any specific models to look at?
Which one(s) Just Work with Tiger?

cheers!

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Hecate
Jun 19, 2005
On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 10:25:50 +0200, The Rev Gaston
wrote:

I am looking to get a graphics tablet for Photoshopping. Has anyone any recommendations about which one to get?

What is the smallest one that is useful?
Any makers to look at apart from Wacom?
Any specific models to look at?
Which one(s) Just Work with Tiger?

cheers!
Wacom. Don’t bother with the others as the build quality is questionable.

A lot of people are quite happy with a Wacom Graphire 3 A6 size. There is also an A5 Graphire if you feel you need something bigger. I use an A4 Intuos which is pretty big – I wouldn’t want anything bigger and the only reason I have that size is because I actually draw, not just manipulate, images.

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Hecate
Jun 19, 2005
On 19 Jun 2005 08:44:49 -0700, "Fu22y" wrote:

Wacom is the best. You can look at other ones, but none are as good, in my opnion, as a Wacom. I currently work with a number of them. The WACOM/Monitor tablet is one of the best. I think it is called Cinq.

That would be the Cintiq which costs more than a lot of computers.

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johnboy
Jun 19, 2005
"Hecate" wrote in message
On 19 Jun 2005 08:44:49 -0700, "Fu22y" wrote:
Wacom is the best. You can look at other ones, but none are as good, in my opnion, as a Wacom. I currently work with a number of them. The WACOM/Monitor tablet is one of the best. I think it is called Cinq.

That would be the Cintiq which costs more than a lot of computers.

I am hoping that with the growing popularity of Tablet computers which have screens that ARE Wacom tablets, the price will come down.
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Hecate
Jun 21, 2005
On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 18:02:33 -0500, "johnboy" wrote:

"Hecate" wrote in message
On 19 Jun 2005 08:44:49 -0700, "Fu22y" wrote:
Wacom is the best. You can look at other ones, but none are as good, in my opnion, as a Wacom. I currently work with a number of them. The WACOM/Monitor tablet is one of the best. I think it is called Cinq.

That would be the Cintiq which costs more than a lot of computers.

I am hoping that with the growing popularity of Tablet computers which have screens that ARE Wacom tablets, the price will come down.
Would be nice, but I suspect it’ll take a few years. Computers are more likely to go up in price than down and Wacom have a captive market.

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Wieslaw Kierbedz
Jun 21, 2005
The Rev Gaston napisał(a):
I am looking to get a graphics tablet for Photoshopping. Has anyone any recommendations about which one to get?

What is the smallest one that is useful?
Any makers to look at apart from Wacom?
Any specific models to look at?
Which one(s) Just Work with Tiger?

cheers!

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Steve Reeves
Jun 26, 2005
That would be the Cintiq which costs more than a lot of computers.

Indeed it does. I tried one at a digital imaging show earlier in the year and it’s absolutely awesome.

Way out of my budget though – the A5 Intuos 3 I bought was a close call in the divorce stakes – a Cintiq would have cost me my life 🙂

Steve
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Gregory Blank
Jul 2, 2005
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The Rev Gaston wrote:

I am looking to get a graphics tablet for Photoshopping. Has anyone any recommendations about which one to get?

What is the smallest one that is useful?
Any makers to look at apart from Wacom?
Any specific models to look at?
Which one(s) Just Work with Tiger?

cheers!

G;

Although I can’t comment on the current crop, awhile back I bought a refurbished Wacom 6×8 Intuos . I can’t imagine using a smaller tablet for photo retouching or graphics work (I do both).

The refurbished Intuos was lot less than a brand new
tablet and worked flawlessly until I upgraded to a G4 Laptop,….I still have that ADB tablet if anyone is interested, in a good deal 🙂

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Myron Gochnauer
Jul 3, 2005
I use a Wacom graphire3 with 4×5 inch active area. I have not had a chance to use a larger one… larger ones promising greater ease of use, of course.

….but — and I have heard this from other people as well — the 4×5 size is very convenience for much editing because you can reach all parts of the 4×5 screen with every little movement of your hand. Finger movement is often sufficient. I haven’t had any difficulty retouching photographs with it as long as I set the speed as slow as possible (and the acceleration as high as possible).

Even if the larger sizes were useful, I would like to have the speedy 4×5 as well.

Whatever you get, give it a fair chance. If you’re accustomed to a mouse it will take you several days or even weeks before you aren’t "all thumbs" with it.

Myron

I am looking to get a graphics tablet for Photoshopping. Has anyone any recommendations about which one to get?

What is the smallest one that is useful?
Any makers to look at apart from Wacom?
Any specific models to look at?
Which one(s) Just Work with Tiger?

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