Sounds a little like ACR except that Adobe doesn't have the excuse of
obsoleting old stuff for new features. :-)
Chuck Norcutt
Jan Steinman wrote:
>> 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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