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Dolash posted:Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but... They're compatible with pretty much everything that uses a mouse  Some people replace their mice with them, some people just use them for digital art in a painting program or whatever. There's no set way of doing stuff - you can scan stuff in or you can draw/paint something entirely from scratch. I've never scanned anything in - they're pretty natural to use, lovely to sketch with. They're also great (essential) to use with digital sculpting programs like Zbrush, Mudbox, Sculptris (which is free and super fun). I have an Intuos4 but I used cheapo Genius tablets and a Wacom Graphire (Bamboo now?) with no problems at all.
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Skogul posted:mort-ception I had the same happen to me just as fast. I love the texture of the surface but drat, nibs just melted away. The surface wore down smooth after a few months and the nib wear stopped.
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Phraggah posted:Speaking of -- I've seen some comments online regarding Wacom Pen's nibs wear out after a short time, and that there's a new type of texture on the tablet parts which causes them to wear out faster, because of this some reccomend a protective cover for the thing or extra nibs. Has anyone found this to be true? That was true for my Intuos 4. I loved the feel of that texture and enjoyed working on it but the trade off was nibs wearing down within weeks of daily use (as opposed to years). The texture on the surface wore down to a smooth finish before my nibs ran out so it wasn't too big a deal!
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Frown Town posted:I was actually debating something like that to use with my Cintiq; I alternate between standing and sitting at work and dig the idea of strapping something like that to the Cintiq (instead of propping my keyboard on a cardboard box everytime I stand). Or I could just remember the pre-programmed hotkeys I've set up on the Cintiq but I've been thinking about that too. It's such a pain having a full size keyboard on my lap when I use my Cintiq, especially when it falls off and clatters about. I can't get the hang of using the Cintiq buttons either. I do worry I'd have the same awful adjustment period with that thing too though.
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ACanofPepsi posted:Well guy's it is called a Razer Nostromo, and it costs like loving $80. I found mine on sale for $45 but I have seen them as high as 79.99 because it's a Razer XXXtreme gamer thing. The customizing software is ugly but works really well and can store multiple profiles for different software. You can record macro's with it too but I haven't needed to do that. All in all it's a weird looking thing but if you can stomach the price it is pretty nice compared to the alternative of an external numpad with rebound keys. All the LED's can be turned off as well. Yeah, I hate the idea of paying for all that gamer rubbish. I've seen a couple of USB numpads for laptops for £10 or so and googling suggests one of those + "Auto hotkey" would work.
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Attack! posted:So this is the first time I'm really trying to use my bamboo to do anything real, but I can't get straight lines in photoshop, there's always some miniscule amount of jitter in my lines unless I move really fast and I can't work that way. Do I need to switch to Illustrator, which I don't think I can afford, or is there some way to deal with it in photoshop? It's bad enough that I don't think I could ever consider sketching on the bamboo, ever. I wonder if the problem is with Photoshop and not your tablets. I had an awful problem with jitter in PS with my Cintiq until I bought the brush set called "Kyle's Ultimate Drawing Set". I don't know what it is about those brushes but they are amazing - such smooth lines in comparison to the ridiculous wobbly things I got before. It was like $5 so maybe worth a try? There must be something in PS brush settings that causes it but I'll be damned if I know what. Note I didn't have any jitter problems with Manga Studio or ZBrush. Just PS. Zvezda fucked around with this message at 23:50 on Oct 16, 2013 |
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:Hey I just wanted to pop in and ask a question. I've never used any kind of digital tablet as I could never get the "hand down here, eyes up here" coordination, and later when the Cintiqs came out, the price was astronomical to just blindly buy. Nonetheless, the past month I discovered ProCreate on the iPad, and have been loving delighted, so I was thinking about a Cintiq a bit more seriously. Fortunately it turned out that a friend of mine has one in her studio and so I was able to play around with it. What surprised me was how loving SLOW the action was. I'm talking about *here is the tip of my stylus* X _____________ *here comes the line that I drew trailing behind*; and using it for painting was even slower. My question is this: does the speed of the Cintiq depend on the computer that it is tethered to? If I put it on a high-end PC would that lag be diminished, or is this an inherent trait of the Cintiq pad in general? I have a cintiq 24HD and use it with Photoshop CS5 on a decent PC (i5, 8gb ram, can't remember graphics card - was mid-high-end a couple of years ago) and don't notice any lag at all. Only if I am using a big, fancy brush on a large canvas - and that is my PC chugging, not input lag. The only weirdness I experience is if the pen isn't calibrated right and the cursor sits away from the pen tip at certain angles. That said, I work pretty fast and I don't think I watch the lines as they come out. I'll pay more attention next time I'm working at it and let you know.
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