Graphics Tablets - anyone use one?

[Bee_Jay]

I have just 'acquired' a Wacom Graphire 3 tablet.

I have been playing with pen pressure in Photoshop and it is pretty cool.

Does anyone here use one, and if so, what do you find it most useful for?

[CVP]

Yep, use a Wacom Volito. I find it very good for the freehand selection tool, but on the downside sometimes using it as a mouse is a bit less flexible than my old mouse.

Overall thumbs up though.

Chris

[dcw@pr]

I did until I lost the pen a few months ago...

have to have a mouse as well though I find, but very useful

[406]

Yep, have a full size Tevion I bought from Aldi for about £25. Topo bit of gear

[Marco]

Yep, I've used a Wacom tablet for 5 years and find a mouse very slow and un-natural now. I set the screen area on the tablet quite small so that I don't need to move my entire hand to click in each corner. Lose a bit on accuracy but its still way better than mouns.

Plus I've never had any issue with RSI despite being spending most of my days on PCs.

highly recommended.


Marco

[diddyman]

Yes, I did, until the dog ate the cable. See my post entitled "Is it a bird...etc "

[te51cle]

I have an Intuos 2 here. Tend to use the pen for Photoshop and Civ, mouse for other applications. I usually turn the pressure sensitivity off as I'm quite clumsy though ! I do agree that using the pen helps avoid any RSI problems.