Tablets and PSCS2

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Super Chung
Dec 29, 2005
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Hey All,

Anybody have any reccomendations for tablets to use with PSCS2??

Cheers,
SuperChung..
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bmoag
Dec 31, 2005
Graphics tablets, a la Wacom, Si.
Tablet PCs, No.
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Eric Schreiber
Dec 31, 2005
Super Chung wrote:

Anybody have any reccomendations for tablets to use with PSCS2??

I’ve only recently started using Photoshop (CS2) so I’m far from an expert. And I only just purchased my first tablet yesterday, so again I’m new enough at it that my opinion might be invalid.

That said, I got the Wacom Intuos3 tablet, and I’m very impressed with it. Light weight, excellent feel, highly configurable, and a technical marvel. Even though I’m still getting the hang of using the pen, already selecting and working with brushes is far easier with the pen than it ever was with a mouse.

The one warning I might make, though, is to not get the largest Intuos3 tablet unless you have a compelling reason to. I got the largest (12×9") one, and it’s really a bit too big. My main problem is where the heck to put it when I’m not using it, but a smaller one may also be easier to work with.
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Kinmotsu
Dec 31, 2005
"Eric Schreiber" <eric at ericschreiber dot com> wrote in message
Super Chung wrote:

Anybody have any reccomendations for tablets to use with PSCS2??

I’ve only recently started using Photoshop (CS2) so I’m far from an expert. And I only just purchased my first tablet yesterday, so again I’m new enough at it that my opinion might be invalid.

That said, I got the Wacom Intuos3 tablet, and I’m very impressed with it. Light weight, excellent feel, highly configurable, and a technical marvel. Even though I’m still getting the hang of using the pen, already selecting and working with brushes is far easier with the pen than it ever was with a mouse.

The one warning I might make, though, is to not get the largest Intuos3 tablet unless you have a compelling reason to. I got the largest (12×9") one, and it’s really a bit too big. My main problem is where the heck to put it when I’m not using it, but a smaller one may also be easier to work with.

For the casual user, the graphire series (I have a graphire3, but the graphire4 is the newest) is perfect in form factor and functionality, plus my wife has one and uses it for all of her pointing needs and has no complaints about it as a mouse replacement, either. The fact that I’m left-handed makes it fairly impossible to use it to replace my mouse, since I don’t mouse left-handed, but it sits comfortably on the left side of the desk under the monitor and doesn’t take up very much room at all. I’ve never found a job where the pressure sensitivity of the tablet wasn’t adequate, either, though I don’t do anything that would be remotely considered taxing or professional level editing.

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