Buy Wacom Graphire 4 X 5 USB Tablet with Cordless Mouse & Pen (Blueberry)Wacom Graphire 4 X 5 USB Tablet with Cordless Mouse & Pen (Blueberry) Product Description:
- Cordless mouse, pen, and tablet for PCs and Macs
- Mouse features 3 programmable buttons and scroll wheel
- Pen has pressure-sensitive tip, 2 side switches, and eraser
- Transparent overlay on tablet for easy tracing
- Includes drawing, painting, annotating, and photo editing software
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An essential addition for your graphics apps.
By S Smyth
Wacom's Graphire consists of a pen with a selection rocker, an active surface on which you draw, and a two-button wheel-mouse. The mouse works okay, but I find my normal track-ball mouse more manageable because of the poor quality glide action of the Wacom's mouse on the tablet's surface. Perhaps this could be overcome by bonding a thin layer of some velvety type material to the mouse's base, but it hardly seems worthwhile unless you really need to. What you buy this guy for is the pen.
For a lot of graphics work a mouse is perfectly adequate, but there are many occasions where the pen gives you much finer control along difficult edges and in tight corners.
First time users should consider the following points with regard to Photoshop:
1: The selection rocker on the pen's body replicates the left and right buttons on the mouse. I set mine with the rocker down for the left button and back for the right button. It seems more logical to me that way, as opposed to the default's reverse. These settings are available ( in windows ) via Settings > Control Panel > Wacom Tablet. All the other defaults are okay, so leave them be.
2: Load an image and select a brush. Now use the mouse to draw a line. A line will appear of uniform thickness. The pen, on the other hand, will seem to draw little more than a scratch. Don't panic, but press the pen's tip down harder, and try again. This time a better result should be seen. What is happening is that the pen is pressure-sensitive and, like using a normal pen on paper, the harder you lean the heavier the line. Only more dramatically so.
3: To avoid unnecessary wear on the pen's nib, pick a brush much larger than you need and let the pen's pressure sensitivity control the thickness of the result. There's a huge amount of control with the pen's default settings. On the other hand, if you want the pen to mimic the mouse, make the following change:
4: In Photoshop LE 5.0 and 5.0/5.5 either double click on the `Brush Tool' button or select Window > Show Options, and clear the Stylus Pressure check-box. The pen will now mimic the mouse. Remember to re-check the Stylus Pressure box to return to the pressure sensitive action. In Photoshop 6.0 click on the brush symbol to the right- hand side of the horizontal option bar to reveal the stylus settings box. Set the Size setting to off. Also try the settings available by clicking the brush symbol to the left-hand side of the option bar. In this instance a pop-up will appear containing a number of sliders. The one that adjusts Hardness will give good results. It's best to experiment for yourself.
Other manufacturers do a tablet, but the Wacom tablets are reckoned to be the best choice for use with Adobe products.
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