The Pink Guide to Tablets

[Pink]

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Tablets come in many shapes and sizes...

 

 

 

:arrow: 4x5

 

:arrow: 6x8

 

:arrow: 6x11

 

:arrow: 9x12

 

:arrow: 12x12

 

:arrow: 12x18

 

:arrow: 12x19

 

 

 

(All in inches, of course ;))

 

 

 

The prize range for a tablet starts at about $50. If you are a "serious" artist (with some extra $ ;)) I reccomend a Wacom, (which start at around $50 for the kinda cheep ones, $200 to $500 for the OK ones, and in the thousands for really expensive ones.)

 

You can get some good inexpensive deals off of amazon.com, just search "tablet" and you'll get results.

 

 

 

Bad things about it...

 

- The mouse mine came with is useless, very clunky and slow. It came free so its no biggie.

 

- The pen has two clicking options, one which (in photoshop) opens up the brush menu. This really irritates me because when I'm drawing my fingers can bump the button and open up the brush size menu. I click somewhat fast and it changes brush sizes on me, very irritating.

 

- If you loose the pen (or have a sister that ruins it :)) it's $20 or so to replace it.

 

 

 

Neutral Things...

 

- The size of the tablet matches up with the screen... In other words, the upper right corner of the tablet is the upper right corner of the computer screen. The lower left corner of the tablet is the lower left corner of the screen. Everything inbetween matches up so on. There is a setting which allows you to change it to be a portion of the screen.

 

- You need a good hand-eye cordination to use this. It takes a while to get use to, its much different than using a pen and paper.

 

- Your art isn't going to get instantly better with a Wacom. You still have to practice drawing like every other artist.

 

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Good things...

 

- For Photoshop, pixel sig making, and drawing, it is a luxery. All I have to do is flip the pen over and use the nifty eraser... It's so much faster than switching from brush to eraser. DO NOT LOOSE THE PEN. Nothing else works with it.

 

- The Pen's erasing option

 

- It comes with a special set of pressure sensitive brushes. The harder you press, the bigger the blotch is.

 

- The buttons on the side can do things such as zooming in and out.

 

- No more scanning! Drawing is so much easier, you don't have to use a mouse and you don't have to deal with slow mouses or trying to retrace scanned images. (And if you do, its alot easier.)

 

 

 

*This is still being written. If you have any input please post it here. :)*

 

 

 

Also, if you have a tablet please post here so people can PM you for advice. :)

 

 

 

People with a tablet:

 

Pink (Yay!) 8)

[SAGE]

Wacom? 2 Little buttons irriate me. My pen is currently screwed because of those 2 little buttons and a sister of mine who decided to make them in permanantly. Nice intro to Tablets though

[princessa9]

The clicky thing doesn't bother me because I hold it at an angle where it doesn't interfere XD

 

 

 

And there's something faster than flipping the pen over XD:

 

what I do is keep my left hand on the keyboard for shortcuts...the "e" key is for eraser and the "b" key is for brush...so I only have to move a finger and it's set on eraser XD

 

Or you can always put your hand by ctrl+z and whenever you make a mistake those two buttons would delete the mistake.

 

 

 

And wow. I didn't know wacoms were so expensive.

 

 

 

Another good thing is that it's fairly light so you can tote it around with you if you have a notebook.

[lemonfish]

I had a go on a $1000 tablet pc and loved it - they're very easy to use and now I want one :P

[Nazgul740]

thanks for the info! now your are talking about the tablets with the pen and all not the tablet pc's...

 

 

 

i have a really bad tablet that i never learned how to use well :wink:

[EP]

The tablet does not necessarily line up with the screen, i know with mine (Wacom Intuos3) you can change it so that it only covers a certain portion of the screen.