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Apr 11, 2007
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Hey I’m in the market for a tablet for a beginner so i don’t want to shell out a bundle yet. Any suggestions? How about Addesso vs. Wacom. Any advice will be appreciated
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Roberto
Apr 11, 2007
If you go with anything other than a Wacom even one of their small cheaper Graphire 4’s you will be wasting your money. Wacom rules, the others drool!

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Dave
Apr 11, 2007
On 10 Apr 2007 17:25:54 -0700, "j." wrote:

Hey I’m in the market for a tablet for a beginner so i don’t want to shell out a bundle yet. Any suggestions? How about Addesso vs. Wacom. Any advice will be appreciated

get yourself a Genius 6X8 www.geniusnet.com.tw and ignore people who never drove something else than a Volkswagen Beatle, but keep on telling everybody that’s the best car on the road.

Dave
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ronviers
Apr 11, 2007
On Apr 10, 7:25 pm, "j." wrote:
Hey I’m in the market for a tablet for a beginner so i don’t want to shell out a bundle yet. Any suggestions? How about Addesso vs. Wacom. Any advice will be appreciated

Hi,
If you query ebay with something like ‘intuos* ptz*’ you will get a list of only current model Wacom tablets that are both new and used. It is not that unusual for people to purchase tablets then decide they are not their cup-of-tea. If you are patient you can find opened but nearly new tablets for a reduced price.

Good luck,
Ron
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jclarke.usenet
Apr 11, 2007
Dave wrote:
On 10 Apr 2007 17:25:54 -0700, "j." wrote:

Hey I’m in the market for a tablet for a beginner so i don’t want to shell out a bundle yet. Any suggestions? How about Addesso vs. Wacom. Any advice will be appreciated

get yourself a Genius 6X8 www.geniusnet.com.tw and ignore people who never drove something else than a Volkswagen Beatle, but keep on telling everybody that’s the best car on the road.

Instead of insulting people perhaps if you explained what it does that others don’t you might gain some converts.

Could you be kind enough to compare the features of that tablet to a Wacom Graphire and a Wacom Intuos?

Does it support tilt and rotation?

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jclarke.usenet
Apr 11, 2007

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Hey I’m in the market for a tablet for a beginner so i don’t want to shell out a bundle yet. Any suggestions? How about Addesso vs. Wacom. Any advice will be appreciated

Wacom. Most of the Adessos need batteries for the pen, the Wacom pens don’t require batteries. Check the Wacom support page and you’ll find that just about any Wacom with a USB connector is supported under Vista, including some long-discontinued models, and just about everything they ever made that was designed to be connected to a PC is supported under XP. The fact that they continue to provide driver support for discontinued products is important–a graphics tablet is pretty durable and you’ll probably end up using it through several generations of computer.

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Roberto
Apr 11, 2007
"Dave" wrote in message
On 10 Apr 2007 17:25:54 -0700, "j." wrote:

Hey I’m in the market for a tablet for a beginner so i don’t want to shell out a bundle yet. Any suggestions? How about Addesso vs. Wacom. Any advice will be appreciated

get yourself a Genius 6X8 www.geniusnet.com.tw and ignore people who never drove something else than a Volkswagen Beatle, but keep on telling everybody that’s the best car on the road.

Dave
http://dave.photos.gb.net/c1247464.html

Well, you had better make sure the drivers work for Photoshop. There was a post today on the Adobe forums about the Genius tablet and not being able to get pressure sensitivity working. The only decent table are wacoms. They have the software support and the driver support and always will have. Everything else is a toy designed to appeal to the person too cheap to buy a good tablet. If that’s you more power too you and don’t forget a bottle of aspirin.

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noone
Apr 12, 2007
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Hey I’m in the market for a tablet for a beginner so i don’t want to shell out a bundle yet. Any suggestions? How about Addesso vs. Wacom. Any advice will be appreciated

You might want to do a search of groups.google. This subject has been handled in great detail, even as recently as a month ago. Look to this, and to alt.graphics.photoshop. Lots of good responses.

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Matalog
Apr 12, 2007
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Hey I’m in the market for a tablet for a beginner so i don’t want to shell out a bundle yet. Any suggestions? How about Addesso vs. Wacom. Any advice will be appreciated

Aiptek make a decent tablet for the money, 512 levels of pressure, resolution of 3048 lines per inch and an accuracy of 0.42mm. I find it a great tablet for a beginner, which I am. It doesn’t support tilt or rotation, but then a beginner will hardly care about this and you can just change the settings in photoshop to adjust the aspect of the brush that you want to change with pressure and save some brushes with your settings.

The pen does require an AAA battery, but holding this in your hand is hardly the worst thing you would have to do to save some money. It isn’t very heavy.

It works perfectly with Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2 (I have the Aiptek 12000u, I would assume that the other tablets in their range work equally well), and anything else that I have tried it in.

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