Wacom Tablets Rock Your Socks

Wacom Tablets Rock Your Socks
Posted :: Aug 27, 2004 by Clockwork

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

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.