I was getting sick of doing postwork with a mouse (which is like trying to draw with a bar of soap), so I ordered a 6X8 Wacom tablet today. Hope everyone else had a nice day, too. Love, John

Wow, nice move, that's what I have, the 6x8 Intuos II! Have to agree about the bar of soap. Good luck with it!

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I'm actually better with a bar of soap..;)

I think you are going to be very happy with it.

I know I'll never give mine up! ;)

About the tablet. I was thinking bout about getting one, how is it compared to using the mouse, specially in like PS7? I tried one, but loooooooooong time ago, and didnt get the hang of it. Probably takes a while to get used to it, right? I saw a few nice ones out there, but do they work nice VS the usual mouse postwork? I wanted to use it in PS7 and Bryce, possible? Thankx

yes u can have it mimic the mouse totally

You're gonna love it tjohn!!

Cornelp, its like using a regular pencil but youre looking at the screen and not down at the drawing paper which takes a little getting use to because of the hand/eye coordination respond but in no time at all youll get the hang of it, same as you would with movement between computer games and the mouse. You also have much more precise and steadier control over the cursor (stylus) than you would with a mouse making for a better and less interrupted line tracing experience. With the Wacom Intuos II you can flip the pen around and use the other end as an eraser like you would with a real pencil.
P.S. You can place an image under the pads plastic cover and traced it directly onto the screen.

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Ang is embarrassed I've had a tablet for probably a year now and I haven't gotten used to it yet. But then I'm blond so that might have something to do with it. :P

Wifes got the Tablet its not a wacom but just the same. I havent tried it yet, I like my Optical Mouse and can trace things in Photoshop when Selecting with lasso tool just as easy as a pen.

Analog-X, a tablet can hardly be compared to peripheral mouse operations in its finite purpose. Selecting items in Photoshop is not in anyway the same thing as controlling the size of the brush merely by pressure application in a single stroke or shading in areas of your work freely with complete control over intensity of color application by how hard you press on the pen just like you would get using a pencil while sketching. We wouldnt have a need for drawing tablets if we could. The Intuos II also brings a cordless mouse but in order to register on screen, it must be run over the tablet instead of a mouse pad.

wacoms can be a bit pricey,so is there any others out there worth buying.

Yes, Wacoms are a little pricey! Wildman, I couldnt possibly give you a straight answer on this since I havent been exposed to all the others but Im sure the competition is out there. My first tablet was a gift from my late brother. It was an Acecat II 5x5 and it cost $100 (USD) way back then. The hookup was a little cumbersome because it needed to be placed in sequence to your mouse like a dongle . So depending if your mouse was either serial or parallel ported you needed a connector to satisfy that condition. And I wasnt thoroughly impressed by it and decided I was too used to my mouse. But I still have it.

Im sure todays market allows for competition there you might be able to pick something up thats comparable and at a more reasonable price.

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I actually picked up a 4x5 Wacom Graphire tablet recently for $99 at Circuit City. It's not the best or the largest, but it does what I need it to. Still getting used to it. It's tough.

I ordered mine through Staples because I don't do on-line money, 3-8 days till they get it in. About $200 US +tax which for a quality periferal doesn't seem that pricey to me, and I ain't rich, but everybody's got their own view of how much is too much. Glad to hear so many people think I picked a winner. :^)

I had a wacom for years and loved it. It drew power from the keyboard socket and plugged into a 9-pin serial port. Which made it tricky to get to work on my laptop. So I bought a Packard Bell. larger area for less money. What can be wrong with that, right? It was a piece of crapola (excuse my french) the mouse pointer would jump between adjacent pixels, even when I didn't move the pen. I quickly got sick of it and went back to a wacom. OK, it's only one test away from wacom, but I'm never trying a cheaper one again. Does anyone have problems in Bryce with their pads, using absolute positioning rather than relative? I find it hard to use the track ball in absolute. It starts rotating at an insane speed.

I am using a 6x8 ArtZ II from Wacom on Win XP Pro for ALL my postwork and image manip. Have it running on the serial port, my mouse on PS2 (working in C4D/Poser/Bryce) and my Nostromo N50 (mega-frag gaming!) on one of the USB. Point is a second hand older Wacom will run fine on most newer computers with the right driver. It may not be the current pressure sensitivity but anything over 256 should do most users well enough.

You'll love it and won't know how you got along without it for so long....I've always had one, my lastest is an Intuos3, 9x12, with a 4D mouse, and pen. I couldn't live without it......

But too late in the day to start installing or I'll be up all night. :^( My sleep time is 6 pm to 12 midnight, so it'll have to wait till tomorrow morning after work (after 9 am). Can't wait Tjohn (new Wacom user) :^)