Wacom Intuos 3

[ammitsboel]

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I think you are confused.

No I'm not, thank you very much.

I would like to ask William if he prefers the Cintiq.

[Guest WPalank]

Yes ammitsboel I do like my Cintiq.

 

Let's just say at one point I knew someone at Wacom and got a very excellent price and that was a few years back.

Also, I know several pro photographers that use them with no complaints. I've heard many people (typically non-owners) complain about them, but on my calibrated Cintiq, what I see on screen is what I get in print.

 

Also, I took this test:

X-Rite: Get exactly the color you need, every time, anywhere in the world.

which I got from this thread:

http://www.l-camera-forum.com/leica-forum/barnack-s-bar/65364-test-your-eye-colour.html

and scored a 4 (low numbers are good) which I completed in a rush, which must say something for the monitor.

 

But if I had a monitor that I was happy with and not in the market for a new one, I would get the tablet.

[ammitsboel]

Thanks, I've tried a small Wacom for retouching.

I think I will order the Cintiq 12 and give it a try.

[Guest WPalank]

Yeah, I forgot about the new 12 in model, introduced within the year. I have the 21ux.

Would love to hear what you think about the new one.

[Marquinius]

Set aside about 3 hours where the wife and kids are all out of the house and no one is over your shoulder.

 

For the first thirty minutes to an hour you will question your manual dexterity and wonder if your purchase was a big mistake. Typically after 3 hours or so, you are using it at an intermediate level.

 

Also, disconnect your mouse and hide the one that comes in the box. No need for crutches.

 

William,

 

You mean there is a learning curve ... and here's me, thinking that now everything will go smoothly and all my photo's will be of top quality:D .

 

Seriously: Had the same experience learning to fly: everything went A-Okay, until the instructor really applied pressure: wanted to quit, never was going to learn to fly, bwaaaahhhh.

 

Something has to go klick, after that it's just training to do things smoother.

 

Will keep u posted! Christmas is coming and guess what Santa is going to bring?

 

Marco

[farnz]

... Christmas is coming and guess what Santa is going to bring?

A chimney sweep?

 

Pete.

[Marquinius]

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Pete,

 

I just measured the chimney pipe: that will have to be either a fold up Wacom or he's going to have to throw it through the windows

 

Marco

[ammitsboel]

Pete,

 

I just measured the chimney pipe: that will have to be either a fold up Wacom or he's going to have to throw it through the windows

 

Marco

If you are that crazy about it you could throw yourself at wacom's feet and offer to be their slave. Then you cold get just the one you wanted.

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[Philinflash]

I am running an Intuos 2 Wacom tablet that is 6"x8" (actually it is slightly larger than that) with a 24" monitor. I had a smaller version previously but I prefer this size. It is large enough to deal with fine movements but not so large that you cannot navigate around the tablet without large movements of your arm and shoulder.

 

I use it as my principal non-keyboard interface. I use the pen for things (like PS and Bridge) and anything that requires fairly precise pointing. I tend to use the included mouse (with scroll wheel) for gross movements such as just trolling around the internet. The pen does not work well for scrolling down long internet pages (such as you have on this site) because pulling the scrolling thing down on the right with the pen is not ideal.

 

Even though the monitor is more than twice as big as the tablet, it all becomes quite intuitive in a pretty short time. I would be very upset if someone took my tablet away.

[ammitsboel]

Just got the Cintiq 12.

I'm very impressed with the color consistency when looking from different angles.

I'm not impressed with the pen tracking though, but it might be me calibrating it wrong.

[thomasl.se]

I debated the size before getting an Intuos3. A6 is too small for the lap, at least how I'd use it in the lap, and A4 seemed unnecessarily large for photo edit, and depending on your style, maybe also for drawing.

Narrowed down to A5 and A5 Wide, for a wide screen, the A5 Wide may seem a likely buy, but I went with the A5 and assigned the top part of the active Intuos surface for work, and the lower part as extended hand rest. I think I hit the jackpot for my preferred size, and as a bonus it's small enough to fit in an urban daypack of ordinary size; 30 liters or less. Or certainly, a 17"W laptop case; quite possibly a 15" as well.

[imported_reinierv]

I just bought a Intuos GD1212U for a mere 75 euro. I too was long unsure to buy a tablet as the prices are pretty high..

 

Now this tablet is huge, its 12x12 inch but you can redefine it so that for photoshop you can only use a part of the tablet. I did read somewhere that in that case I could define areas on the remaining of the tablet for special functions but did not try if this is true or not...

 

But I must say that in the few days I had it I became a believer in pentablets, they are great in for processing pictures.

I just don't believe in the keys on the tablet as the new ones have

[ammitsboel]

The pen tracking on the Cintiq is not super but the screen quality makes up for it.

I really enjoy working with images this way as it's much more intuitive for me.

I didn't have those 4 hours of frustration than William writes about, for me it seemed to work right away.

 

Thanks William for recommending the 7-point system book, I find it very useful.

I also use other Scott Kelby books, his books are like cooking recipes.

 

Best Regards

Henrik

[Guest WPalank]

I didn't have those 4 hours of frustration than William writes about, for me it seemed to work right away.

 

Henrik,

The "learning curve" I described relates to using the tablet where you have to develop a little hand-eye coordination because you are looking at the image on monitor while working on a gray tablet surface. The Cintiq is much easier because you see the image on the tablet or monitor. Two different animals.

 

The tracking sounds like a problem with your unit or something in your settings. You should contact Wacom support. Check to see if you have the latest driver at this page:

Wacom Driver Downloads

 

Glad you are enjoying your new toy.

[Marquinius]

Santa's come early this year: my Intuos3 A5 just arrived. Am out to the shop to pick it up and will surely have a lot of fun!

 

Marco

[GMB]

Santa's come early this year: my Intuos3 A5 just arrived. Am out to the shop to pick it up and will surely have a lot of fun!

 

Marco

 

For me too! Arrived last Sunday. Unfortunately, I did not have much time to play with.

 

I am also posting here a question that I already posted in the German forum. I wanted to program the Intuos as suggested in of the the posts above. Specifically, I wanted to use one of the scrolls for the increase/decrease brush size. The problem is the following: The key shortcut for increase/decrease brush size is Command-[ or command-]. The problem is that I am using a German Mac keyboard that has no square brackets:eek: . I know how that alt-5 and alt-6 give me the brackets, but that does not help as far as the key shortcut for increasing/decreasing the brush size is concerned.

 

Any suggestion welcome.

 

Georg

[Marquinius]

Thanks Marco.

 

The other suggestion I would make if you do pull the trigger is to take it out of the box on a day off (Saturday for example). Duplicate a folder of lets say 20 RAW files so that subconsciously you know that you can throw them out at the end of the session. Set aside about 3 hours where the wife and kids are all out of the house and no one is over your shoulder. Now give it a go.

 

Practice dodging, burning and working on Layer masks. For the first thirty minutes to an hour you will question your manual dexterity and wonder if your purchase was a big mistake. Typically after 3 hours or so, you are using it at an intermediate level.

 

Also, disconnect your mouse and hide the one that comes in the box. No need for crutches.

 

William,

 

As we speak: first movements with my 5" Wacom ... manually impaired indeed. Confused about what the keyboard does, the pen, everything. This is going to be a nice evening ... (feel like having a delirium tremens with that pen)

 

Marco