Different mouse vs. pen question

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just bob
Mar 19, 2007
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Years ago I used a special tablet with AutoCAD, which was great because you could call commands right from the tablet. I do not do much retouching but I would like a way to be able to assign buttons or areas on the tablet which let me call different commands (jump to USM, Levels, or curves for example). Is this possible? The alternative I guess is remembering the hot-keys.
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noone
Mar 20, 2007
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Years ago I used a special tablet with AutoCAD, which was great because you could call commands right from the tablet. I do not do much retouching but I would like a way to be able to assign buttons or areas on the tablet which let me call different commands (jump to USM, Levels, or curves for example). Is this possible? The alternative I guess is remembering the hot-keys.

Years ago, I also used a puck/tablet with AutoCad and some of the programed-in functions were very useful.

You might want to look into the latest Wacom, Intuos 3 [?]. I have a #1 & #2 and there are a few programable buttons, but I think the new one might have more flexibility. Whether it can mimic the old AutoCad tablet is another thing. I find that a stylus and the keyboard shortcuts work quite well, so I have not made the jump yet – expecially as I have a Wacom for every computer and workstation already.

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Joe
Mar 20, 2007
"just bob" wrote:

Years ago I used a special tablet with AutoCAD, which was great because you could call commands right from the tablet. I do not do much retouching but I would like a way to be able to assign buttons or areas on the tablet which let me call different commands (jump to USM, Levels, or curves for example). Is this possible? The alternative I guess is remembering the hot-keys.

The old tablet did give you a long list of buttons to asign, but I haven’t seen those for ages to know if they still avaible. And you don’t want those buttons anyway.
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krash
Mar 20, 2007
my wacom is programable like that… kk

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Years ago I used a special tablet with AutoCAD, which was great because you could call commands right from the tablet. I do not do much retouching but I would like a way to be able to assign buttons or areas on the tablet which let me call different commands (jump to USM, Levels, or curves for example). Is this possible? The alternative I guess is remembering the hot-keys.
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just bob
Mar 20, 2007
"Joe" wrote in message
"just bob" wrote:

Years ago I used a special tablet with AutoCAD, which was great because you
could call commands right from the tablet. I do not do much retouching but
I would like a way to be able to assign buttons or areas on the tablet which
let me call different commands (jump to USM, Levels, or curves for example).
Is this possible? The alternative I guess is remembering the hot-keys.

The old tablet did give you a long list of buttons to asign, but I haven’t seen those for ages to know if they still avaible. And you don’t want those
buttons anyway.

I supposed the keyboard took over the tablet. One hand on the keys and one of the pen/mouse. I just can’t remember all the shortcut keys!
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Joe
Mar 21, 2007
"just bob" wrote:

"Joe" wrote in message
"just bob" wrote:

Years ago I used a special tablet with AutoCAD, which was great because you
could call commands right from the tablet. I do not do much retouching but
I would like a way to be able to assign buttons or areas on the tablet which
let me call different commands (jump to USM, Levels, or curves for example).
Is this possible? The alternative I guess is remembering the hot-keys.

The old tablet did give you a long list of buttons to asign, but I haven’t seen those for ages to know if they still avaible. And you don’t want those
buttons anyway.

I supposed the keyboard took over the tablet. One hand on the keys and one of the pen/mouse. I just can’t remember all the shortcut keys!

I don’t remember how many small buttons my old tablets had but probably around 24-34 or so, and I never used any of them to remember. And with the 4×5" Wacom, I have one hand tabbing few (my most use) key-commands other hand rubbing the tablet.

And I always have the pen in my hand even while typing, and it took me few weeks of using nothing but pen to finally got rid of the mouse. IOW, I started using tablet around 2 decades ago, but can’t master the pen until around decade ago I decided to stop using mouse (I am so glad I did).

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