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    just tried that astropad thing above ^

    PROS
    • whoa, trippy. i'm moving shit on a big screen with my ipad
    • you can set areas of your screen to be what displays on your ipad, which means you can use it as a sort of secondary palette monitor (in case you don't already have one).
    • their menu on the ipad collapses into a small circle and stays out of the way when you don't need it. tap to open it up again. looks like a wacom tablet sidebar but with more stuff

    CONS
    • there's no pressure sensitivity with this in photoshop (only app i tested) using your finger. so shaped brushes will not vary in width when painting without a stylus
    • it says it works with a variety of styluses, including wacom ones. there must be special tablet styluses because my normal intuos4 one isn't working
    • it's laggy as F, even on a snappy wireless connection
    • the area you can declare "live astropad area" is permanently a horizontal rectangle and makes the ipad landscape-mode only. would be cool if you could make taller areas and rotate your ipad to fit vertical content better
    • they think it's more intuitive than it is, so there's little in the way of instructions

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    • the moment I saw that app I immediately pictured myself smashing my ipad like and angry child waiting on the lagPonyBoy
    • I use a Jot pro stylus with Sketchbook and export from there... not getting the 2 screens thingOBBTKN
    • But like i said time a go, i don't like the "paint on a screen" feeling, tried wacom intuos and cintiq too...OBBTKN
    • Still using my scanner+PS old school technique for lot of works, and drawing on tablet for fast thingsOBBTKN
    • just buy a wacom alreadyfourth
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