Use a pen display or pen computer to craft amazing 3D models, grab a digital pen and hand write notes on your laptop or Android device, or learn the finer points of photo editing with a pen tablet. From mastering graphics to creating amazing products, develop your design skills with Wacom. Turn your passion for movies and games into 3D art and create incredible, lifelike models in no time. Open up a whole new creative world — turn your films into snappily edited masterpieces or immerse yourself in the latest animation techniques.
See how developing your note taking skills can boost your memory, improve your productivity and aid your creative practice. Sketch, draw and edit images with a responsive pad, a precise pen and see your creations appear on screen. Shop now. Draw, design and create directly on a high resolution screen with a precise pen. First up is the Intuos Tablet. The Intuos5 comes in small An extra-large Intuos4 is available, but it loses some features.
These have the look of a traditional design tablet, meaning a matte-looking surface you "draw" on while watching your own computer screen all devices connect through USB and a pretty standard software download. The Intuos is multi-touch capable, which means you can navigate with your fingers and you can touch a key that will easily display your tablet settings on your computer screen. With customized ExpressKeys buttons at the bottom of the tablet that give "shortcuts" to functions and applications like SketchBook Express, Wacom touts the Intuos line as a good option for a professional working in design.
Another tablet that's geared toward professionals is the Cintiq line. These come in a inch Setting them apart from the pack are their LCD screens, which allow you to draw, write or design directly on the screen. It's the same technology -- pen and all -- but with the benefit of an LCD screen. As you might surmise from the price points, these are highly advanced tablets that are primarily going to be used by professionals who need the control of traditional art tools but in a digital format.
Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Lightroom, among other traditional design applications, are bundled with them. But maybe you're just exploring graphics tablets for the first time or are using them outside of work? Next, we'll check out a line that might suit you. This is the tablet for your average design geek or burgeoning artist.
The line has four different models, and while Intuos and Cintiq were designed to be used in many ways, the Bamboo tablets are fairly tailored to specific areas of interest. For those who are a bit more interested in capturing their art or design digitally, both the Splash and the Connect would be a simple, bare-bones tablet. The Bamboo Connect is as basic as you can get: It lets you sketch, write and generally work with what Wacom refers to as "visual communication" tools.
The Bamboo Splash is nearly the same; in fact, apart from a different application that comes with it -- the painting and drawing software AirRage -- it's identical. Having an extra application probably makes the Splash a better deal, as the price point of the Connect and Splash is exactly the same.
The Bamboo Capture is attempting to, well, capture the photography audience. With Adobe Photoshop and multi-touch capability, this tablet is designed to easily zoom, airbrush, correct or modify digital images. While it does have features like Nik Color Filters that are helpful for photography and digital images as well as SketchBook, it doesn't include the painting and drawing software that the Splash is more focused on.
The Bamboo Create is like the wise leader of the Bamboo team. With an active area of almost 9 inches compared to the 6 inches the other models offer , it's physically larger. It combines most of the features in the other Bamboo applications Adobe Photoshop and Sketchbook Express with some extras of its own Corel Painter. With multi-touch capability, it's the tablet for someone who knows their digital stuff but maybe doesn't need some of the more professional features of the Intuos.
Or the added cost. As we've talked about, Wacom tablets are marketed to many different audiences. The first market is, not surprisingly, creative professionals.
From graphic designers to product developers, there's a Wacom tablet that just might make your job easier. Wacom touts the Cintiq system, for instance, as a valuable tool for animation professionals, with its pressure-sensitive pen to vary line thickness and the immediacy of working on screen. They also make a point of saying that those old, hand-drawn storyboards no longer need to be scanned in but are right at your fingertips.
For graphic designers, the Intuos and Cintiq tablets provide a more "pen-and-paper" feel than, say, working with a mouse. The shortcuts offered, like ExpressKeys or even the expediency of drawing as opposed to pointing and clicking, are also touted as time savers. Naturally, any professional work that requires sketching or artistic operations -- or any degree of digital manipulation -- is probably going to find a Wacom tablet useful in streamlining their process.
Makes sense, but why would anyone else need one? One reason might be a hobby; if you're an artist, a tablet can easily let you transfer your art into a digital sphere. Applications like Corel Painter aren't your mama's ClipArt, either.
This app allows you to create traditional-looking paintings with your pen acting as a brush. Of course, we could all use a little airbrush help with our photographs, and Wacom tablets and pens allow subtle and specific manipulation of your digital images that point-and-click navigation might not.
Wacom pens will come with a couple of buttons that can be mapped to different functions. Instead, I prefer to set this command to one of the buttons on my Wacom. This allows me to work much faster in Photoshop. Not once in my life have I flipped my Wacom pen over to erase something.
Layer Masks and the Eraser Tool are all I need. By default, the entire surface of your Wacom tablet will cover the entire area of the screen. This means if you want to move your cursor from one edge of the screen all the way to the other, you need to move your pen the entire distance of your tablet.
Fortunately, there are settings for this that allow you to reduce the distance your hand has to travel to cover the distance of the screen. To do this, click on the Mapping tab. You will see a drop-down for Screen Area and a drop-down for Tablet Area.
Leave the Screen Area set to full, since we want to be able to move our cursor over the entire screen as needed. Using the Table Area drop-down, you can set how much of the tablet you want use in order to get full coverage of the screen. I set my Tablet Area to cover only a small portion of the top left corner. This allows my hand and wrist to stay in the same area as I work. If you want to try my setup, I recommend disabling all of these features. A good way to determine what works best for you, is to start with most of these features disabled and then pay attention to what tools or shortcuts you use most often.
Aside from being a more comfortable and natural fit for the hand, pressure sensitivity in Photoshop is another huge advantage of using a tablet. Open Photoshop, go to Window, and to Brush Settings. Here you will see a wide variety of brushes and settings that can be adjusted to respond to varying levels of pressure.
The customization here is deep, but the big takeaway is that these tools will give you the feel of using a real brush, pen, or marker as you apply effects in Photoshop.
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