(OT) And I say goodbye to a loyal partner... my Wacom.
Valandar
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Yes, my nearly 9 year old Wacom tablet has finally drifted off to wherever reliable electronics go when they unleash the magic blue smoke. It helped me make a HUGE number of products for DAZ, and without it I feel like I've got two left thumbs when trying to work in Photoshop or ZBrush.
Ah, well, time to get another one at Best Buy after payday...
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I lost mine last year...it was ancient as well.....but gotta say, I love my new Intous Pro. Didnt realize just how much sensitivity my old one lost till I got the new one.
When things turn up I think I'll look into one myself; I had one 15 years ago during my previous efforts with cgi and I adored it (along with Fractal Painter)
I have one of those, too. Still trying to get the hang of using it; I haven't used a graphics tablet since my first Wacom, back in 2001!
Had a nasty discovery a few weeks ago when I discovered that my old, and virtually unused Intuos2 would not work in MacOS Sierra. Time to get a new tablet for ZBrush class...
It's amazing how long Wacom products last, isn't it?
If it were an Apple product, you would need to buy a new one every summer.
That's because they are a company that's in it for the long haul.
They know that when your 10-15 year old Wacom finaly dies, you won't hesitate to get a new one. And you regard all other brands as cheap copies and children's toys.
I recently sold my Intuos 5, which is similar to the Pro. I never really liked the hand-eye thing with it. For vector (most of what I do) I found the mouse is about as fast an accurate. For freehand, I have my sights on a drawing monitor, which I've tried and liked a lot better.
When I used one way back when, the key amazing thing is pressure sensitivity. Fractal Painter (and presumably more modern stuff) had some great ways to set up brush width and/or opacity and other stuff based on pressure. I assume Photoshop does similarly.
Blast you, now I have that on my wishlist...
In some modern programs, they register rotation and what angle the pen is being held at relative to the drawing surface (the consumer level Bamboo tablets do not have this feature or the eraser tip on the back of the stylus)
Sympathy. My 13" Cintiq died a horrible and unnatural death about 5 weeks ago. Just over 2 years old. Couldn't live without it, couldn't afford to replace it (even second-hand). Ordered a 19" Huion direct, what a nightmare. Product itself seems good thought. Just waiting for a new GPU and DVI cable to arrive and hopefully back in business.
Originally got an Intuos and tried for months with it but couldn't break the habits of almost 50 years painting on canvas and board. Should find a loving home for it sometime.
I have the GT-190, works very well for me.
When I got that old Intuos2 Wacom really was just about the only game in town, unless you just needed a tablet for handwriting recognition. There are some other, somewhat lower priced brands with very good reviews nowadays. I wouldn't count on them lasting as long as the older Wacoms did, but they appear to start out well.
Most of them don't seem to have Wacom's advantage of needing only the one cable, though. Nor of being powered diretly through that cable. Which can end up demanding some pretty byzantine arrangements to get them connected and working.
I think I need a way to draw on the actual computer screen as I cannot co-ordinate mouse, tablet or and other movements with a screen well enough to draw like I can on paper.
Maybe a nice big touchscreen my ipad is also too twiddly.
Yep, that's the one I got, but because I ruined the GPU at the same time as the Cintiq I've only got to test it as a mirror of the primary monitor, fine with some programs but not Rebelle, my preferred painting/pastel app. Have found suggestions for fixing the issue (activiting icons, programs, folder on the desktop under the painting program) but my replacement card is due tomorrow so . . . .
Same. That's way I ended up going for the graphics monitors.
As an ipad user, you might see if you can find a friend with a Ipad Pro and their newer Apple Pencil. Wireless, pressure sensitive, and apparently quite addictive and gets good results with most drawing/retouching tasks quickly. (anyone else have any experience with this duo?)
--ms
The Wacoms do last well physically but the company won't issue driver updates beyond a couple of operating system iterations. So if you're caught in an OS / hardware upgrade loop (and if systems are internet connected, who isn't?) then your Wacom will effectively stop working anyway.
The lack of driver updates is another form of unreliability, and one that can make the cheaper alternatives look very attractive.
I've got an iPad pro . . . are there any apps to allow it to be used as a graphics tablet? If so, does anyone have experience of doing it?
(downside for me -- and this applies to any tablet -- is lack of desk space)
I use a slightly high desk (bench) with the keyboard and mouse on a lower sliding tray. The tablet sits in front of the monitor and everything is fairly accessible.
When I say "use" I mean "have". I don't get any time to use any of this stuff at the moment.
Ummmm? Then why is it that my Intuos 3 (released in 2004) has windows 10 drivers?
The only devices that only go up to Windows 7 are very old (Intuos2 (XD), Intuos (GD), Graphire2, and Graphire (ET)). Everything newer than that has Windows 10 drivers.
That's better support than most companies.
Nvidia For example:
So Wacom having Win10 drivers for all but their 4 oldest products is pretty good if you ask me.
http://www.wacom.com/en-us/support/product-support/drivers
If they've improved their performance since my bad experience a decade or so ago, then good. I received a snotty and patronising response by Wacom to my polite enquiry, too, which has left a bad taste in my mouth. I do remember a bit of interweb controversy about their approach, so I wasn't alone. Hopefully they've upped their game. That's probably due to the arrival of respectable competition.
I have Windows 10 drivrs for the 750 Ti, I haven't updated for a few weeks but they aren't tremendously old.
No.... not the 700 series the old 7xxx series from back in the day when you where top of the world with a 512MB GPU.
10xx
9xx
8xx (Notebooks only)
7xx
6xx
5xx
4xx
3xx (OEM only)
2xx
1xx (OEM only)
9xxx
8xxx
end of Win 10 Driver support
7xxx
6xxx
end of Win 7 and 8 Driver support
5xxx FX
end of list for driver lookup in Nvidia's website
Ah, sorry.
When a door is closed, a window is always opened....lol. Maybe time to upgrade? :D
Laurie
The classroom computers use Cintique screens (the 22" variety, some years old now. Not touchscreens, but pressure-sensitive with the Wacom pens). They are *very* nice. But the cost of the 13" Cintique was more than I was willing to pay. Even without the touchscreen addition -- which would probably be nice, but since i've never used one, I don't absolutely need it.
I went with an Artisul, which has pretty much the same features at about 2/3 the price -- and requires the byzantine work-arounds I mentioned above, since it wants two input cables and a power source. But it works well through what are effectively powered hubs, since my iMac doesn't have either of the two connections that it wants (HDMI and USB-3).
I honestly do not know how long its driver will be good for. But I'm expecting that if it needs an update to High Sierra it will probably get one. Beyond that, it's anyone's guess, but I would assume it will get driver updates for as long as it is in production. I'm not planning to upgrade my OS until after the semester is over, in any case.
And I don't know how long it will physically last either. But it is starting out very nicely, and seems a very good match in performance to the Cintiques in the classroom. The site is now saying that there wll be a 15" version released fairly soon. But I just got this one, so that's a bit after the fair where I'm concerned.
Kinda of like daz products. :)
I just made a comment on their website on Sunday, just pretty much to thank them for making quality products, didn't expect them to even attempt to help me troubleshoot it. Nope! They emailed me back with suggestions to help try to get it to work, and even dug around to see if they had any parts still in stock to try to get it working (they did not). So not only are they quality tablets, they're awesome customer service, too.
I can vouch for huion, they are great. I had one for 5 years, still works, but I was gifted a intuos 5 pro by my brother in law who likes my artwork, so I been using that one. Not a huge difference, but I do like the feel of the pen a bit better.
I have an old hand me down Intuos <some number>. Very old. I keep threatening to steal my son’s much newer Intuos but haven’t felt the need yet. But I was _amazed_ when I learned nibs could be swapped on the pens for different feels.