Wacom Tablets Rock Your Socks

Posts: 120 · Sub-Modder Joined: 06 Aug 2004 Posts: 120

If you're into graphics at all - go buy a Wacom right now. Seriously, go do it.

[img=right:59e0b7d65d]http://img48.exs.cx/img48/2335/wacom.jpg[/img:59e0b7d65d]For a couple hundred dollars or so, you instantly become 4 or 5 times faster, and have an average of 15% better photoshops (according to Worth1000.com's professional photoshoppers).

A Wacom is a graphics tablet, which ranges in size between about 4x5 inches to 12x8 inches and can have over a thousand levels of pressure sensitivity. This means that when using photoshop, you don't have to tool around infinitely with the opacity levels, not to mention that masking becomes about 200 times more accurate, selection has never gone smoother, and you can actually draw things.

To give you an idea of what the difference feels like - consider trying to draw something with a brick, and then switching to a pencil. For a few examples of stuff done more or less exclusively with a Wacom, check out my small gallery here...http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~mwallac/Photoshop.html

I won't usually be handing out a ton of sound technical advice - but take my word on this one.

Posts: 1475 · Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 9:48 pm Post subject:

well, considering i cant draw, nor do i have the money reserves, im gonna have to pass this one up. i do know of a good gallery of a guy that uses a wacom tablet for a lot of his work. heres the link: http://www.visionafar.com/#

Posts: 2723 · Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 10:32 pm Post subject:

Wow, there are a lot of cool prints over at VA, but it's too bad they're so expensive.

Posts: 1736 · Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 10:17 am Post subject:

thatd be awesome to have one of those
im trying to pick up photoshopping

Posts: 2723 · Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 11:10 am Post subject:

Maybe you could add a small Wacom to your Christmas list?

Posts: 1736 · Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2004 11:03 am Post subject:

theres an idea
but ill be buying it. my parents havent boughten me anything except for the groceries and minor things like that since 4th grade

Posts: 1475 · Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2004 11:07 am Post subject:

good luck with the wacom tablet, keyser. dont you have to have adobe photoshop for it to work though?

Posts: 1475 · Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2004 3:50 pm Post subject:

Posts: 1736 · Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2004 4:14 pm Post subject:

i dont think ill get the tablet, i can photoshop just fine without it