Graphics Tablets?
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- foreverwhatever
How many of you use them?
Are they better than a mouse?
Worth buying?
- pepsi0
I have a nice one which works better than a mouse, but I don't use it often because it's attached to my pc.
- chossy0
I use them, for some things they are better than a mouse other things they are shit at, and the recent releases of waccom tablets are not good atall.
- foreverwhatever0
please elaborate chossy
- ninjasavant0
Mostly I prefer using a trackball. But when I'm working with photographs my tablet is a necessity. I use it with the healing brush, the rubber stamp tool, quick mask, and a number of other brush type things.
It also comes in handy in Illustrator when i want to get a figure drawn quickly and then go in and edit the points to get it exactly right.
I know a lot of people here at work use them instead of mice because it helps with their carpal tunnels.
- traut0
I would try and use one someone else has because it definently takes some getting used to and I have one but rarely use it. Might be interested in selling on the cheap its an older model wacom 6x8
- foreverwhatever0
i dont know if im convinced yet...
- chossy0
I am an editor, and find when I want to do small movements very fiddly and precise the tablet is next to useless, however I can dodge about my screen and click on things twice as fast as I could with a mouse. The 'Active' area of waccom tablets stops right in a little groove so if you skip over it you tend to get stuck in the groove and have to fiddle your way out very frustrating if youve just spent ages highlighting your timline to then do it all over again.
- chossy0
The new pens are too thick and have a horrible rubber end on them that just simply feels shite, I prefer the 2000 models the pen was better suited to my hand.
- foreverwhatever0
hmm.. so i gather that buying one would be a bad move?
- pepsi0
Depends on what you want to use it for. If you want to make pressure sensitive brush strokes, or need something easier on the wrist you should get it. Otherwise, you don't need it.
- foreverwhatever0
what was the thing that goes under your wrist, and keeps it level, and slides around with you?
- myobie0
I actually like the new pens better, but that's just me.
The bigger the tablet, the easier it is to make very small adjustments
(proportion of size of the tablet and the pixels on the screen)I use mine for everything, even coding...but I have pain in my wrist if I don't... :(
But yeah, they are very strange to use if you havn't ever. Try one out somewhere...it's not for everybody, but I love it.
- chossy0
myobie I think I have three of the biggest sized tablets waccom make and yet I find small precise movements a pain.
- MSTRPLN0
get a tablet, you won't be sorry.
I can't understand how some people here are complaining about them. the pen is better suited for certain things just like the mouse is better suited for others, it takes a second to swap one to the other if you are having so much trouble .... if you know when to use them then you should have no trouble at all.
- ribit0
depends entirely on what you want to do... for sketching (like with variable width pen strokes) the stylus/tablet is only way to go...for pointing precisely, a mouse is great... use both!
- inky0
i posted th esam ething a few months back..i ended up gettin one....nver use it....YET.
it will come in handy, sometimes i've been in situations ere i could have used it, and had t at home instead of wrk. don't go all out on a big one, if its not for wrk,it take time to get use to it.
our friends will sweat it.
- nocomply0
I know a lot of people here at work use them instead of mice because it helps with their carpal tunnels.
ninjasavant
(Aug 23 06, 11:27)I tried out a wacom tablet for this exact reason and found it actually made things worse for me! It was very frustrating to use in place of a mouse, and you're always setting down and picking up the pen. Also it was hard to position precisely over small clickable areas like text links. It was overall just a drag on my workflow so I'm back with the mouse.
However, for painting and illustration i think it has a place. I don't get a chance to do much of that so I returned my tabelt.
- dobisf10
I'm about twice as fast with a tablet as I am with a mouse. Try it for 2 weeks straight and you'll never go back. It also changed my design style a little just because it allows you to do a bit more in photoshop & illustrator.
- nocomply0
dobisf1 do you use your tablet for everything? If so what size is it?
I tried the smallest size. Maybe that's why i didn't like it.
- F_180
i have the intuos 6x9 and i use it for everything. i love it and i'll never go back to a mouse. if you do try it, you have to allow yourself a learning curve. i dont know anyone who can just pick one up and be a pro.