Just got the 6x8! So far, I'm quite pleased :) -WTB

ya, hide it and the credit card bill before the wife sees

"Any tips for a new Intuos 3 owner?" yes. send it to Khai, Post office box 22332....

They're cheap now, buy the wife one too :P The only tip is use as much as possible :) Enjoy! I don't know why I waited so long to upgrade my 4x5! 8O

I just got the 6x8 myself a month or so ago, and love it as well. No tips other then learn to use the buttons on it. (I love the zoom slider! ;)

" Just got the 6x8! So far, I'm quite pleased :)" Flush with profits??? :)

a bit :)

You can buy a pack of replacement tips for the intuos. Oh wait, you mean the other kind of tips.... :o) PS: I'm waiting for my 9x12 to arrive, so na ner na ner na :-D

Well ya know, I already feel like maybe I made a mistake getting the big 6x8. I have to really hover over the tablet to access stuff at the top of the screen, because the pen sort of stops working if you get it on an angle. A smaller pad would've eliminated this problem. -WTB

I use the 4x5 for postwork - and oh my, it works like a charm... Well spent money!

Make sure the cord is out of the way so you don't accidently trip on it and break one of the connectors. If you break a connector that leads into the tablet, it can't be fixed.

William_the_Bloody Can you map your tablet? I can on my larger one 9 x12 Intuos 2. I have just the bottom left section mapped for use. The utilites for mine are found in the windows control panel. I rest my hand in one spot and the pen reaches every corner of my screen. Helen

hmm, I don't know, I'll have to check into that :)

I already feel like maybe I made a mistake getting the big 6x8. I honestly prefer my smaller tablet. I don't do a lot of "drawing" with it, not like you'd do with a pencil and paper (for that I use a pencil and paper and then scan it). I use the pen tablet for fine detail work that requires the "touch" of a pen (just as one example, the Liquify tool in Photoshop is fantastic with a pen tablet, but VERY tricky to use with a mouse!). Mapping is an interesting option, Helen. Can you switch the mapping around so that if you want to map the whole thing (like to draw), you can, and then switch back? Hmmmm.... bonni

You can set things like the mapping up on a per-application bassis - have a small area mapped for file management, say, and the whole surface for Painter or Photoshop (though since I have a mere A5 UltraPad I don't do so). One feature I like is the so-called "Expert Mode" in preferences - it makes the side switch change the mode of the tip, rather than acting as a click itself. Before they added this I'd use the button to right-click and get the move/copy/create shortcut menu rather than the proper right-click menu because I'd twitched the stylus as I pressesd the button, now I hold the button in and tap the stylus and no more accidental movement (so really, it should be called the non-expert, or maybe the inept, mode :D).

See, that's good info, thanks...goes to change to inept mode :)

Course if you map a smaller area, your effective resolution drops. I was using a smaller tablet, but noww that I have the larger one, I notice my actual drawing "style" comes through much more.

Has anyone gotten proper setting for it with lightwave? when i try to use it, the cursor flys off the screen...

I haven't tried it with LW, but there is an option in the LW8 prefernces to set your input device to mouse or tablet - have you tried that? Edit: Edit>Display Options>Interface tab - selecting tablet rather than Mouse works for me.

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Hadn't noticed that.. I'll try it. A lot of times, using a tablet reduced wrist strain, and wehn I'm dragging a bazillion points around, the tablet comes in very handy!

I've had the intos 6x8 for several months now, and wouldn't trade it for a mouse ever again. I use the pen for everything. It does take a little getting use to, but now finding my way around the screen is second nature.

"Well ya know, I already feel like maybe I made a mistake getting the big 6x8" I was a bit worried about this, but I figured I could just map a smaller 'active area' if I really, really couldn't come to kindly terms with such a big area and the associated big movements. Glad to hear that I can do that. "I was using a smaller tablet, but noww that I have the larger one, I notice my actual drawing "style" comes through much more. " THAT'S what I was hoping to hear! I've worked on a crappy Genius 3x4 for a few years. It's better than a mouse but it's still about the lowest life-form in the tablet food chain. Then a friend gave me tablet part of his Genius 4x5 after his pen died and the difference was HUGE - so I figured bigger is better (for real drawing strokes) and I went for the 9x12 intuos. Great input everyone (after a somewhat facetious start LOL)

Buttons!!!!!????? What buttons? God, I've been using the 6x8 2 for over two years and never tried the buttons. Duh. Could not draw without it. Used to use the mouse and that's ridiculous. Tip: Practice a lot to develop hand/eye coordination. But it doesn't teach you to spell, I think I got that wrong. And it doesn't teach you to pay attention to the manual otherwise I would have tried the buttons by now.

The long thing next to the buttons is a finger slider zoom.. VERY cool indeed! I'm still trying to get use to using thier cntrl/alt/shift buttons, and still am weaning myself off my keyboard (which I really hate.. the keys are all too small.)

I'm confounded why this thing exists, who would need/want to use it and for what purpose? Why not the pen??? Does anyone own the airbrush? Is it helpful? Thanks

Some people just like th efeel of a mouse for web browsing or such, and that's why they provide it. I can't imagine trying to play a game with a pen!

But...isn't that what your normal mouse is for???

you stop using that one and use the Wacom one ;)

Plus the wacom one has a higher precision, and response time. That means you have a better aim.. ;)