Wacom Intuos3 6 x 8-Inch Pen Tablet
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Customer Review: Excellent quality and an invaluable tool
Summary: 5 Stars
I spend about 10 hours a day working in Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, and other design related programs including 3D Studio Max. I've been using a Wacom tablet for about six years now, and I love it. It would be impossible for me to create the designs and illustrations that I do without my Wacom. As an artist and designer, I used traditional mediums for years, and then spent another couple of years trying to figure out how to use a mouse in a way that would permit me to create quality images and designs on the computer quickly and in a way that resembled traditional methods. The Wacom tablet has been my solution and the solution of dozens of my colleagues. I use the old Intuos at home, and I use the Intuos 3 at work. The new Intuos features a USB connection that permits hot-swappable, on-the-go design. Also, the new Intuos pens are much more comfortable to hold that the old plastic pens because of the rubber coated grip. The tip on the pen seem much more "springy" and responsive. The pressure sensitivity is amazing and allows me the complete control over the virtual medium that I am handling (airbrush, pencil, ink, paint, etc). Photoshop, Illustrator, and Flash are all designed to work with the pressure sensitive pens, and the level of control is amazing. Photoshop's new custom brush palette, combined with the Wacom tablet, permit me to create custom brushes to simulate the appearance of color pencil, pastels, and chalk in such a realistic manner that it's difficult to discern what is real and what is digital. Both of the tablets I own have the 6x8 drawing surface, which I find to be an adequate size for me to accomplish all of my design-work and illustrations. It also is a convenient size to fit into my laptop bag (outer dimensions are about 10"x13"). I absolutely love my Wacom, and I'm ashamed that I didn't place a review for this superior product before now. Several of my coworkers and friends have purchased less expensive versions from competitors, but have regretted the purchase and have switched to Wacom. I was helping a coworker select a Wacom tablet for her desk this morning (as a replacement for another brand) when I decided to write this review for the Wacom tablet. Bottom line for the Wacom 6x8: convenient size, excellent pressure sensitivity, durable construction, excellent value for the price. I would consider this a must-have for any serious digital illustrator or designer.Customer Review: Awesome! Home run on this product
Summary: 5 Stars
I went down to local electronics chain to look for a tablet device. I design my own websites and am horrible at drawing. Figured on tracing outlines and sketches. I thought at first the $300 range was too much for this "toy", so got a Bamboo model to get a feel for it. Store said they will trade in if I change mind. Good.
Took it home, had fun. I don't use the mouse. Boring. Already have a laser mouse. Tablet too small, buttons hard to use. Liked the absolute positioning feature though. That was nice. It piqued my curiousity, stretched my mind a bit, made me think, "Hmm, how bout the bigger one?"
Went back to store, splurged on 6x8. (Sure, alright, "I can justify it with business expense", I thought to myself) Took it home. Woaaaahh. Cool. Much better size. 6x8 doesn't fall off your lap and small enough not to hog my lap or be bulky either. You have to try it to believe it. Much better control and it's like using my pencil or pen.
(Then I loaded the software )Customizing buttons for each application is sooo handy. Wow. I design printed circuit boards, and the buttons are a real kick for that. MS Paint actually becomes useful instead of a dorky box drawing tool!
My advice after using it today:
1) I like the felt nib and the springy plastic one. The rest..well..they insult the product.
2) Install the software! Get lastest drivers from site.
3) Buy this before you buy photoshop. Use the upgrade offers. Tablet pays for itself.
4) Set up the buttons using the tablet drive/software.
Open your programs one by one, select it in the software and customize your buttons for each program. MUCH more convenient and intuitive. IE and Opera fly. It's like having a touch screen except your screen doesn't get dirty.
5) Make one of the buttons an UNDO feature. Now you can redraw the same line until you get it right :) I'm a halfway decent sketcher because of it.
6) Make sure you set up one button for Popup menus for added functionality.
7) Tell your friends. They'll love you for it and you'll earn kudos for the great find :)
I haven't gotten into the Painting software yet. Have fun!
Customer Review: Excellent product.
Summary: 5 Stars
Very enjoyable to draw on. I had bought the graphire4 4x5 when I was in college a few years ago to tinker with in photoshop. I decided to get into drawing more seriously recently, and so I purchased the Intuos 3 6x8 as it was reasonably priced, and on sale. I now know why it was on sale, the Intuos4 just came out! Luckily I bought the Intuos3 within 30 days of noticing that the Intuos4 was out, so I just returned it and am awaiting the arrival of the Intuos4 Large, as I decided that I did want a larger drawing surface as I draw mostly from the shoulder and elbow.
Now on to the review: My first few strokes on the Intuos3 I noticed an immediate and vast improvement over the graphire4. I felt like I had been drawing on a cheap plastic toy in comparison to the smoothness and much more natural feeling Intuos3. Not only was the surface material superior, but its far more accurate. Line placement was keen and I could draw much more accurately then I could on the graphire4. It was almost uncanny how much more accurate, sometimes I felt like the tablet was drawing on its own, as when I would retrace lines I could actually retrace the same line instead of the frequent "almost the same" lines that I achieved on the graphire4. If line accuracy is important to you, the Intuos3 shines.
There were two cons with the Intuos3 for me. First was the button's on the right side were never used, simply because they were on the right side and I didn't like pushing buttons with the pen in my drawing hand. Second, i felt that my strokes were not being picked up by the intuos3, and I had to apply more then normal pressure to even do a light stroke. That was the same with the graphire4, but I was surprised to find the case was the same with the Intuos3. I guess thats because the Intuos3 takes 10 grams of pressure before anything is registered. The intuos4 solves both of those problems for me with having all the buttons on one side (ambidextrous design, flip it for lefty's) and 1 gram of pressure before it registers, which is why I decided to get that instead.
Customer Review: Excellent tool
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this Wacom 6x8 to replace an aging UD series Tablet I've had since 1995 (I think It's been so long I don't even remember)! The UD Tablet was faithful and never broke once on me. It was big and kind of clunky, interfaced using a Serial cable and had a seperate power cable with a transformer style plug. Let me tell you how much easier this new Wacom Tablet is to use and set up!
LOTS!, that's right LOTS easier! The old Tablet was 12X12 so while it had more surface area it was almost too big for my needs. This 6X8 is perfect in size, plugs in with one simple USB connection and software installed very easily. Setting up the Tablet was a snap too, the software makes it very easy to get the pressure sensitivity right where I need it. Speaking of sensitivity, it is by far more responsive than my old UD Tablet as well.
The flexible functionality of the buttons left and right of the drawing area were easy to program to do I wanted. I had to disable the left scroll area since I am left handed and I kept running my hand over it. It was no problem though since I have a scroll bar on the right side too. Nice of them to take care of us Left handers.
The stylus pen feels very nice and light and is multi functional without being annoying, as in, the buttons are not placed such where I hit them by accident. I tend to twirl whatever I'm drawing with, a habit I picked up drawing with a pencil, twirling it to move to the sharp edge but this does not present a problem with this pen where as it was a bit of a aggravation on my old UD Stylus.
I just completed a job of retouching over 350 images for a catalog and I used the tablet to do airbrushing. Adding in shadows and doing blemish removal in photoshop and it's really thanks to this tablet it made it so easy.
Highly recommended! Keeping my fingers crossed this one lasts as long as my old UD Tablet did. (BTW my UD still works too but it seems they stopped software supporting it with XP Service Pack 3).
Customer Review: consider what you really need
Summary: 5 Stars
I've just got intuos3 yesterday (One day shipping with amazon prime trial...nice!).
Well, finally upgraded from artpad Z I got 11 years ago.
Same great quality, so there is no doubt that it shouldn't get anything lower than 5 stars.
Amazon packaged it carefully so the UPS guys won't break it while they are transporting.
Well, my first impression on 30 minutes of use yesterday.
Good:
1. Easy set up (just plug in and it starts to work on XP, but you need to install driver for advanced features)
2. USB powered, so I didn't have to plug in the extra power adaptor (and I like that coming from ArtPadZ)
3. Nice looking Unit and pen...I won't bring foods or soda close to it to keep it clean.
4. It's bigger than I thought so your arms can rest on it while you are drawing (I used it mainly for drawing with Painter)
5. It's Wacom...don't settle with any other brands.
So-So:
1. Mouse is not so ergonomic compare to my existing one.
2. Mouse behaves not as expected, probably need to adjust and calibrate to make it feel like my old mouse...haven't tried it yet.
3. It's big so it cannot fit-in and coexist with my keyboard inside the pull out drawer on my desk.
4. Extra programmable short-cut buttons (pallet?) are not so usuful especially zoom in zoom out function. I would rather use keyboard short-cuts in combination with it...(and that's faster)
Bad:
None...Wacoms are the best...Intuos3 is sexy.
In conclusion:
Graphite, though haven't tried it, is half the price and do the same stuff ...I might have been happy with Graphite too for my purpose.
Especially the Graphite's size is smaller on the outter edge, so it would have fit-into my drawer...
But just couldn't resist the Intuos3... It just looked like a better gadget ... of course, at the sacrafice of 2X the money though...