> From: John Hudson <OM4T@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Does anyone on the list use a graphics tablet in conjunction with Photoshop
> or Elements to help with freehand drawing, dodging and burning and cutting
> out ?
>
> If so, are there any recommendations as to brands, price to pay, product
> features, etc ?
Depends on how serious you're going to be about using it.
Wacom dominates this market... and has the highest prices. They even have one
with an integrated display, so you can see what you're doing, much like
physical media -- but at an outrageous price.
You can get other tablets considerably cheaper, but the vendors come and go,
and I wouldn't think of it as a long-term investment.
I use a ten-year-old 12"x12" Wacom. I'd still be using an older one, but the
plugs changed from Apple Desktop Bus to USB. I suspect any off-brand tablet
from ten years ago no longer has drivers available for the latest OS of your
choice.
My biggest beef with Wacom is "pen churn." I bought specialty pointing devices
with the big tablet, and if they still worked with newer tablets, I might buy a
newer one, but Wacom seems to make their pens incompatible with each new
version, so I quit upgrading. I told them this complaint, and they said they
had to obsolete older pens in order to provide new features.
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