From my point of view, the tablet is much more convenient than a mouse
From my point of view, the tablet is much more convenient than a mouse
I hear a lot of talk about Wacom tablets. I was looking it up to see about getting one because, being new to cartography, I just am using a mouse right now. After looking some I looked over to my left where I had my laptop set up for doing zoom calls for coaching and therapy. I realized it's a Surface Pro 3 with stylus. I about shook my head. It looks like I'm going to be grabbing GIMP for that and trying my hand at using a tablet. Hopefully it turns out better than my stick figures! The mouse isn't bad on CC3+, which I'm using now. But with wanting to do more sketching beforehand and in trying out new software I think the Surface Pro 3 will be a pretty good choice.
Everyone is so spoiled with their mice and tablets! I use a touchpad. =P
Seriously, I do use just that right now. With the amount of travel I did, it just made sense, mice on an airplane is horrible. With that said, I have encountered things that I just decided not to try because I did not have a tablet. I will be getting one for the holidays, either as a gift from someone else or a gift to myself, so I'll let you know about the differences then.
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I picked up one of the smaller cheaper wacoms about 8 months ago and I have yet to find any problems with it whatsoever. The tip is still in nearly perfect condition, so unless these people are really pressing down hard on the thing I can't see it wearing down too fast. Picked it up for about $100 and now I actually use it for everything on my computer with the exception of gaming.
P.S. For a fun time try playing Counterstirke (or any first person shooter for that matter) with a tablet.
My wife and I picked up one of the first generation Graphire ET's back when they first came out. (I couldn't even tell you how many years ago that was, but it was before our son was born, so over 5 years.) They're great; we've never had any trouble with it. And we're still using the same stylus it shipped with.
I only have one issue so far. I move the pen when clicking the tip down, so to use it as a "mouse" is a pain. i.e. clicking on a link in a web browser doesn't always work, as it is seen as a click-drag. There doesn't seem to be a way to adjust the sensitivity of that, either (that I can find).
I did map one of the buttons to a middle click, so I can use that to put application into "scroll mode" to pan about.
I think I have found a good way to work now. I have a dual screen configuration (notebook at 1400x1050) and LCD as an extended screen to he right at 1024x1280 (it is rotated). I have the graphire mouse set to be in mouse mode, and lets me cover the full to screens, and I have the pen set to map to my notebook screen only, to get better accuracy and control with it.
That does mean that I change between mouse and pen, depending on what I am doing, but it works for me so far...
-Rob A>
I have my pen buttons mapped to [ and ] which allows me to quickly change brush sizes while working. Its VERY convenient. I also make heavy heavy use of the scroll strip and the alt-shift-ctrl-space buttons...the space button makes panning around my work easy.
Yeah, I remapped the front-click on my stylus to the Space Bar, because I pan a lot but I pretty much never right-click in Photoshop. Then I can just Alt-click and Ctrl-click on the stylus to zoom in and out while I'm at it.Originally Posted by Arcana
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Unfortunately there are no additional buttons or a scroll strip on the graphire series
Though I can use the scroll strip on my notepad touch-pad simultaneous to using the tablet.
-Rob A>
For anyone that might be interested:
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=WP5540
I'm not sure how good DigiPro is, but for $50 is it worth it?