I’m considering buying a work tablet for my PC, so drawing would be a bit easier. It would also make other graphic editing easier too.
Has any of you any experience with these thingies? I don’t have much money to spend on it, so it’s probably a WACOM Volito or Graphire2. I might buy a Trust DESIGN & WORK TABLET 200 or 400, but I haven’t found any reviews on these Trust tablets yet. Volito costs 70€, Graphire 110€, Trust 200 60€ and Trust 400 90€.
Or if someone knows a good place to find reviews on these I’d appreciate it too.
I bought one today. It’s a NGS Draw Master. It’s 8"x6" size, so it’s fairly big. I just have to get used to it for a while before I really can start drawing with it.
edit. And it has 1024 pressure levels. And it works pretty well. I like it more than a mouse. Only thing I miss is scroll button.
I presume you’re right, very few people use them! The only time I have ever tried one was back at university (nostalgic pause) living with someone who liked trying all sorts of fancy gubbins like trackballs and graphics tablets.
I found it rather confusing, to be honest… I am left handed, but hold my mouse in my right hand… so when controlling the computer with a pen I really needed to use my middle hand, but unfortunately my t-shirt only had two arm holes, so that wasn’t an option.
New gadgets are always a good thing, of course, so have fun with it!
I guess I’m late in responding here, but I use a Wacom tablet for my video/motion graphics work. I’ve got a Graphire3. It’s good, but I now wish I had gone for the more expensive Intuous2, which sounds closer to what you have.
The first tablet I used was at work and it was an Intuous. The Graphire is just a cheaper unit. Not quite as responsive to the pressure sensitivity.
I find it handy for Photoshop and After Effects. Drawing masks around a subject in After Effects is much better with a tablet, as it gives you more fluid control.
So, I would have reccomended the Intuous2, but you’ve already bought one, so…yeah…
Yes, I have the tablet now. It’s quite a cheap. 79€. I like to draw things on paper. Now I can make a rough sketch of what I want and make a better version on the computer. Then just print it. No need to use erasers anymore.
I think this NGS tablet is quite a new brand. The main differences to Wacom are:
It uses batteries. both, the mouse and the pen. But that’s not a problem since I usually use a metal cover pen when I draw. About the same weight
The pen doesn’t have an eraser at the other end. But I son’t have too much use for that anyway.
The software part can’t be considered as “pro” as Wacom’s but still works well for me (You can’t define it for different programs, but it still works really well). Also Corel Painter Classic, and some software for text recognition and stuff like that were included and they work well, and aren’t anything like those, that came with a cheapy scanner my dad bought three years ago.
If you want, you can use it to open new programs by drawing shapes on screen or by touching hot zones around the tablet. They are about 10x3mm in size. And there are lots of them (42). And you can configure every single one of them how you want: cut, paste, copy, new, close etc.
