It's time to take your creative ideas to the next level. Watch the video. Mac Windows. Watch here. Create your Wacom ID. Open your Wacom Desktop Center. All Wacom products can be safely cleaned with 70 or 75 percent isopropyl alcohol rubbing alcohol when applied to a soft lint free cloth. Lightly wipe the moistened cloth on the hard, nonporous surfaces of your Wacom product, such as the display, or other exterior surfaces.
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Learn more. Choose from a variety of working angles to suit your own way of working. Precision pen performance with a slimmer Wacom Pro Pen featuring 8, levels of pressure sensitivity, tilt-response and virtually lag-free tracking. Exceptional pen performance: Wacom Pro Pen 2 features 8, levels of pressure sensitivity, tilt-response and virtually lag-free tracking. 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. Specialized industries are using Wacom tablets as well. GIS Geographic Information Systems professionals also benefit from the technology, as the mapping and design of geospatial data is potentially much easier to design and implement with the pen and tablet.
Wacom also points out that doctors could chart patients' data on the tablet, storing their notoriously hard to read notes digitally.
As a first-rate doodler -- in terms of quantity, certainly not quality -- I saw the appeal of Wacom tablets but maybe not the need. I wasn't designing graphics or products for which the graphics and product industries should be thankful , and my artistic side is satisfied with a meandering pen on a notepad.
But Wacom tablets do fill a void even I have by allowing me to hand-write notes directly on my computer and mess with photos. Let's face it -- You need the Wacom tablet a lot more if you're a designer, artist or the like. But technology isn't always used out of need: sometimes it's used just because it's cool. Sign up for our Newsletter!
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