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Digital Pens

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  • 15-07-2006 9:59am
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    joe_chicken
    Registered Users Posts: 1,287 ✭✭✭


    Ok... I consider myself a fairly good artist.

    With a pen, pencil, paint brush, pastels, charcoal... I can at least create something that looks remotely good

    But when it comes to attempting to draw with a mouse, I might as well be doing it with my left foot (and no, before you ask I'm unfortunately not blessed with particularly dextorous feet)

    Anyway... the point of this thread is..... Are there any good stylus&pad or digital pen type malarchy for a desktop.... I've tried to google these things but they keep coming up with PDA stuff and the little amount I found seemed a little dodgy

    Can anyone point me in the right direction?


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    Heinrich
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,577 ✭✭✭Heinrich


    Look up:

    http://www.wacom-europe.com/uk/index.asp

    They are tablets A6, A5, A4! They are USB powered and you get a base of either of the above dimensions, a pen and a mouse (mouse not great). Quite expensive but very well worth the price. You can use the pen as a mouse and bu turning it around it is also an eraser. There is a transparent sheet on the tablet so that you can actually trace.

    Regards

    H


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    joe_chicken
    Registered Users Posts: 1,287 ✭✭✭joe_chicken


    cool... thanks

    That's exactly what I'm looking for


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    spidermonkey
    Registered Users Posts: 490 ✭✭spidermonkey


    you cant go wrong with a tablet.
    i have a little a5 wacom tablet, and its the dogs bollocks.
    perfect for photo editing, and colour scanned images.
    the mice that ship with them are crap though. i only use the pen and tablet.


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    Quackles
    Registered Users Posts: 1,484 ✭✭✭Quackles


    There's a wacom intuos 3 for sale on the boards - having played with one (my husbands, insert filty comment here..), I can tell you that they are absolutely fantastic!!!!

    http://www.adverts.ie/showproduct.php?product=3263&cat=8


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    sdssarah
    Registered Users Posts: 102 ✭✭sdssarah


    i have this one, its really nice :)

    http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=313030


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    Scotty #
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    I was thinking of investing in one of these also. Is A5 not a very small work area though??


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    phantom pooper
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    does it matter if you habe USB 1.0 or 2.0 ?


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    Quackles
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    A5 has limitations, obviously- you will draw a short line and the cursor will move a lot. If you don't mind zooming in while you work it would be ok. the bigger you get, the closer it is to drawing on paper. We had an A5 (not wacom) and part of the reason behind replacing it was the lack of accuracy in drawing on it.

    oh, and they work on usb 1.2 or 2


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