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From: graphitone
18 Aug 2016 09:49
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I found another ebayer who was selling the same Intuos tablet for ~£35 but had negative feedback on his one and only item as a seller, which seemed suspicious, so I passed on that one. I've been checking his feedback, just to confirm my apprehensions and though the person who did win the tablet hasn't posted anything, another item he's sold hasn't turned up. Dodged a bullet there.
I found a more reputable dude and got a tablet from him and I've been having a play over the last few days. It's nice. The pressure sensitivity works really well, I'm just getting used to the way the pen works with the cursor, using absolute positioning.
From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)
18 Aug 2016 10:27
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It's a pretty cool device. I have mine mapped to a 1080p + 21" CRT dual display ( used primarily as a mouse substitute) so as you can imagine it's a total distortion of the 4x5 tablet area. I found absolute positioning to be too annoying with having to constantly reposition the pen for different parts of the display. It's really, really good for the pen tool and stamp in Adobe CS and gimp. Not so much for bitmap drawing tools IME.
From: graphitone
18 Aug 2016 10:43
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Not tried the pen and clone stamp as yet, but I'll give that a go tonight maybe.
I've been using it for shading in Photoshop so far and the pressure sensor works nicely for that.
From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)
18 Aug 2016 16:23
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Best analogy I can think of for the graphire is an eraser on a big chalkboard, whereas a mouse is more like a cement block on an ice rink. I've only used the pressure sensitivity effectively on really big, soft-edge brushes (100-300 px), to selectively burn/dodge, where edge precision is (obviously) unnecessary, but you want to control the intensity depending on area. Otherwise I keep it turned off.
From: Peter (BOUGHTONP)
18 Aug 2016 22:32
To: graphitone
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> Dodged a bullet there
Sounds more like you walked away from a trundling ball.
From: graphitone
19 Aug 2016 08:32
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Like the boulder thing in Indiana Jones? I would say that would be significantly worse than a bullet. I'd much rather be shot and have it all over in one go rather than be running away in terror, just delaying the inevitable crush.
Surely you're not adverse to a little hyperbole?
From: graphitone
19 Aug 2016 08:35
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I found the application specific menu last night, so can change sensitivity, pen 'feeling' (hard or soft touch) depending on whether I'm in Photoshop or not.
Drawing and shading isn't quite intuitive yet, but it's a fairly shallow learning curve.
From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)
19 Aug 2016 14:41
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Can you stump teh with a tablet turing test? Post two drawings, one tablet and one scanned from pencil.
From: graphitone
19 Aug 2016 15:39
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That's a nice idea, though at the moment I think it'd be fairly obvious which was which.
I've not actually tried the pencil tool in Photoshop with the tablet yet.
:-$
I've been doing more cartoony stuff in a Jim'll Paint It style.
From: koswix
24 Oct 2016 16:48
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Cocking hell, the thread even has the same name. I'm a buffoon
LOL
EDITED: 24 Oct 2016 16:52 by KOSWIX