#Best adobe photoshop drawing tablet pro#

#Best adobe photoshop drawing tablet pro#

Touch gestures can also be used on the active area of the Intuos Pro tablet to aid in navigating your image, but if you have a tendency to make unwanted touch commands (as I often do) this can be toggled off. The Intuos Pro models come with a Touch Ring, a radial dial that can be used to zoom and rotate your image amongst other useful functions, and six to eight ExpressKeys™ (depending on the size) that give quick access to customizable software-specific shortcuts. The Intuos Photo features four ExpressKeys™. The rocker switch on the side of the stylus comprises two buttons, a forward button towards the nib, and a rearmost button I tend to think of as ‘right-click.’ The functions of these buttons are customizable in your system preferences and below you can see my personal preferred settings that I switch to at every workstation I find myself using.ĮxpressKeys™ and the Touch Ring on an Intuos Pro. RELATED: Choosing & Replacing Wacom Stylus Nibs Even using your stylus to browse through web pages will help to develop the familiarity, or ‘muscle memory’ needed to become proficient. Try ignoring your mouse for a week and treating your tablet as your primary input device along with your keyboard, unplug your mouse if you need the extra motivation. Working with a Wacom TabletĪt first using a tablet will naturally feel a little unfamiliar for the long-time mouse user, and though some users will find the transition easy and others more difficult, practice is key. The development of a computer input device with a stylus that mimics a pen was a breakthrough development for digital artists, and today I believe by far the best of those devices are produced by Wacom. Click, drag, click drag, and in the end I’d be willing to bet in most cases the result won’t be a flowing script, no matter how beautiful your handwriting may be. Think how quickly and naturally you can sign your name on paper with a pen and imagine doing the same with a mouse in a paint application. The computer mouse was invented over fifty years ago by inventor Douglas C Engelbart, and whilst ubiquitous at the modern workstation, it does have its limitations for fast and precise artistic work. One of the frequent questions asked by beginner retouchers, and both photographers and retouchers looking to improve their workflow is ‘do I need a graphics tablet for retouching?’įirst let’s look at the mouse.