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Hoorah for Stylus.
shatteredshards:
Who needs to actually do their job at work, anyhow?
What make/model did you get?
tetrahedron:
very little. and it's worse b/c i'm an intern, and so i serve no real purpose.
i got an intuos3 4x5. maybe i should have gotten the graphire 6x8, but i got a really good deal on this one. i'm still trying to figure out the ins and outs, of course, but i actually prefer to sketch on the tablet as opposed to paper b/c it erases perfectly clean (and i'm compulsive like that).
also, customizable buttons.... mmmm.... it's so much faster.
shatteredshards:
I sprung for the 6x8 Intuos, because I thought that the 4x5 would be too small for my liking.
I did some looking before I bought it and found a few reviews that helped me make my decision. I found one that compared Graphire with Intuos and the author much prefered the Intuos, explaining that Graphire doesn't transmit signals as often and it's a noticable difference; she said the lines came out like lots of tiny connected straight line segments compared to Intuos.
I love the pop-up menu - I added it to one of the stylus' buttons and added a whole bunch of keyboard shortcuts to it, different ones for different programs too.
tetrahedron:
4x5 is pretty small, and i may upgrade in the future, but for now it suits. my drawing style uses a lot of wrist, so i don't usually go off the drawing surface. if you're doing any painting, the intuos is much preferable; you have more control and the lines are better quality.
of course, it also helps to have art skills, so now i have to work on those... bleh...
shatteredshards:
You probably have more skills than I do. ;)
My reasoning was that trying to use a mouse in Photoshop was utterly pissing me off for the last how many months, so a tablet might be easier. Sure enough, it gives me much more control and I find it much more natural than using a mouse.
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