Comments on: Do you need a drawing tablet?

By: Christopher Frazier

Christopher Frazier — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 23:50:34 +0000

Wow - I owned the same tablet years ago and loved it. I’m only 32, so don’t worry.

As a Linux user, Wacom is really the only choice. My Graphire does a great job in all of the apps I work with (Inkscape and GIMP being the main two) and I only had to spend an hour (ugh) hunting down config settings for xorg.conf. :)

By: Donncha O Caoimh

Donncha O Caoimh — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 19:41:24 +0000

I bought a graphics tablet back in December and it’s been useful. It hasn’t made a whole lot of difference to my photography work but then I haven’t managed to get the pressure sensitivity working with the GIMP yet.

By: Shaun

Shaun — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 23:24:33 +0000

I too have a Wacom Graphire and highly recommend using a tablet if you do any amount of photoshopping. I find it amazingly useful when retouching and restoring scans of old photos. IMHO it works much better than a mouse, especially the pressure sensitive stylus tip. Now, I’ve got my eye on one of the new wide format Intuos tablets to go with my recent widescreen laptop.

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Fri, 26 Jan 2007 12:09:04 +0000

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By: Brian Auer

Brian Auer — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 11:55:17 +0000

These are some great things to think about when considering a tablet for editing. I haven’t used one of the external tablets, but I do have a tablet PC that I use from time to time for editing. THAT’S where these things really come in handy, when you can draw directly on the photo. But as you’ve said, they’re really not as useful for simple operations — in fact, they’re probably an impediment.