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Author:  Fogmeister [ Thu Dec 01, 2011 10:59 am ]
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Got quite a bit of editing to do and wondered if anyone could recommend any pen tablet graphics thingies.

The price range seems to go from about £15 to about £2500 and more so I imagine the scale of quality is something similar.

Anyone have any advice?

I was looking at these which seem quite nice...

http://uk.shop.wacom.eu/Products/Bamboo
Author:  Spreadie [ Thu Dec 01, 2011 11:28 am ]
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I had a cheap/budget one from Trust.

It was dreadful - I fleabayed it, and let someone waste their life with it.

I have had a go on a Wacom tablet and, with my limited experience, the difference was night and day. I can see with they hold their prices very well.
Author:  HeatherKay [ Thu Dec 01, 2011 11:33 am ]
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Anything by Wacom will do the job.

For ages I used an elderly USB A6 size thing that cost me about £40. It was more than adequate for most of my needs, but I've since been bequeathed a larger model that cost almost ten times the price.

Bamboo I think is the current Wacom entry level stuff.
Author:  saspro [ Thu Dec 01, 2011 11:33 am ]
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I've got a Bamboo Fun at home.
It's OK but I hardly ever use it. The pen's too light and the area to draw on is too small.
I find it rather fiddly but I'm not exactly known for my artist skills (I'm more accurate with a mouse than a pen)

I've used some of the bigger & more expensive models and they are a lot better.

What sort of thing do you want to use it for?
Author:  Fogmeister [ Thu Dec 01, 2011 11:37 am ]
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To begin with it will be mainly for creating button images and app icons and stuff (i.e. fairly small).

However, I need to start creating more GUI stuff for polishing apps in the future.

@Heather, I saw you the other day! I bought Pixelmator a couple days ago and was browsing the user bits of the website and saw your avatar!

Love Pixelmator! Brilliant piece of kit.
Author:  HeatherKay [ Thu Dec 01, 2011 11:42 am ]
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Fogmeister wrote:
To begin with it will be mainly for creating button images and app icons and stuff (i.e. fairly small).


You can buy online "clip art" sets of stuff like that, I think. You may need to check the end use licence, but many are designed for web sites and so on.

Fogmeister wrote:
@Heather, I saw you the other day! I bought Pixelmator a couple days ago and was browsing the user bits of the website and saw your avatar!


Uh-oh! Rumbled!

Yes, I have a copy of Pixelmator, too. The Mac App Store has a lot to answer for. PM doesn't get as much use as it ought to at the moment, as it's lacking in a couple of areas compared to Photoshop. Still, it's handy to have about for a quick and dirty edit on something when I can't be arsed to hang about waiting for Adobe's bloatware to stagger into life.
Author:  Fogmeister [ Thu Dec 01, 2011 11:49 am ]
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HeatherKay wrote:
Fogmeister wrote:
To begin with it will be mainly for creating button images and app icons and stuff (i.e. fairly small).


You can buy online "clip art" sets of stuff like that, I think. You may need to check the end use licence, but many are designed for web sites and so on.

I've seen (and used) a couple of free images in the past but for the stuff I'm going to be doing in the future I'm going to have to create stuff myself.
Author:  steve74 [ Thu Dec 01, 2011 12:08 pm ]
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Speckyboy and Smashing Magazine usually have loads of free buttons and UI elements that you can use as you see fit - no restrictions. Some are layered Photoshop PSD files, some Adobe Illustrator vector files. Really polished, professional looking stuff, I've done a few websites using their UI bits. There's lots of other good developer articles on those sites too, for both web and app developing, definitely worth a look.

As for graphics tablets, yes Wacom are the king especially on a Mac, other cheaper tablets don't always have Mac drivers available (or work very well). You probably need an A5 one to have a decent area to draw on, I've tried the A6 ones but they're too small to do much with. We have the old A5 USB Wacom Graphire 4 models, really good for Photoshop work - not sure I'd use them for buttons and UI bits, but I suppose they'd be OK for that too.
Author:  veato [ Thu Dec 01, 2011 12:18 pm ]
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Bamboo Fun Medium which is really useful. Got it for a good price too as they we're around £140 IIRC when I bought mine.
Author:  ProfessorF [ Thu Dec 01, 2011 6:11 pm ]
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I can recommend a Wacom Cintiq 24HD.
Mmmmm...
Author:  Paul1965 [ Thu Dec 01, 2011 6:29 pm ]
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HeatherKay wrote:
Anything by Wacom will do the job.


+1
Author:  paulzolo [ Thu Dec 01, 2011 6:45 pm ]
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Paul1965 wrote:
HeatherKay wrote:
Anything by Wacom will do the job.


+1


Even their iPad stylus is a pleasure to use.
Author:  big_D [ Fri Dec 02, 2011 4:56 am ]
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HANVON are supposed to be very good as well, they pretty much replicate the Wacom Intuos line. The older models were pretty dreadful, but the last 2 generations are "almost" as good as the Wacoms, but generally a lot cheaper. They include some of their own innovations now as well, they aren't direct clones any more.

I haven't tried one, but they generally get good reviews over here.
Author:  paulzolo [ Fri Dec 02, 2011 9:24 am ]
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Now, this is something I could find rather handy. The reviews say that the software is a bit rubbish though.

http://www.wacom.eu/index2.asp?pid=9226&lang=en
Author:  Fogmeister [ Sun Dec 04, 2011 12:49 pm ]
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http://uk.shop.wacom.eu/Products/Bamboo ... /?c=138088

Just bought this.

It's pen only input (rather than the higher up models which include touch) but I have a mac trackpad already so £30 extra for something I already have seems a waste.

Anyway, I also have £15 worth of vouchers left on Amazon so I used them up too!

Will arrive Tuesday (hopefully).

:D
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