On Fri, 1 Jun 2012 10:44:42 -0400, "Ulysses Protos" wrote:
OK i am checking them out
prices start at $70 and go to a thousand
can’t afford to high price ones
so what is the difference ????
many thanks guys for past help
Ulysses
Tell us what you will be doing.
The difference is primarily size. The larger the tablet, the more it costs.
I have the smallest: Wacom Bamboo at $80.
If you want this for drawing or creating artwork, you’ll want a large tablet. If you want it to use with Photoshop (or similar) to work on Layer Masks or creating selections, the Bamboo is perfectly adequate (in my estimation).
If you want to do drawings, like a cartoon character, a large tablet allows you to make long strokes. It’s like drawing on paper. It’s also good to use a large tablet if you’re doing tracings.
If you are editing in Photoshop, you don’t make those long strokes so the small pad works fine. You move the zoomed up image area around.
The key to acclimating to tablet is that you have to get used to watching the results on the screen and not watching your hand movement like you would drawing freehand on paper. You already do that with a mouse or trackball, but people starting out on a tablet tend to watch the tablet instead of the screen.
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Tony Cooper – Orlando, Florida
