Tablet Stylus Mouse?
http://live.pirillo.com/ – It’s possible to use a stylus to control your cursor without having a Tablet PC. With a tablet you can use the mouse with a pen-like device called a stylus.
A tablet is generally used by people who work with computer graphics so they can draw as if they were using a pencil (many artists only work well with pens as opposed to using a mouse). Wacom makes tablets that many graphics artists have fallen in love with.
Do you use a tablet and stylus device? Do you prefer the stylus or the mouse?
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7 Comments
Michel Clasquin
June 26th, 2007
at 7:58am
I have a Wacom Graphire4 and once you are used to the pen, doing any pixel editing with a mouse is like painting with a brick. The Graphire also has its own cordless mouse so you can drop the pen and mouse around photoshop’s menus, for which the pen just feels wrong if you have many years of mous-cle memory (geddit?) to overcome.
But for any other work, I go back to my Apple mighty mouse. There’s not even any need to unplug the one and plug in the other: the mighty mouse and the graphire are both permanently plugged into USB ports and I can switch from one to the other seamlessly (no, there’s just one cursor on-screen). I just pick up whichever of the three pointing devices is most suitable at the time and start working. If there is a downside, I haven’t found it yet.
Upshot: If you do graphics work, even just on a hobbyist level, get one of these tablets. If not, don’t bother.
Mike
June 26th, 2007
at 8:42am
Can the Wacom Tablet be used for text like the tablet pc’s can?
Martin Cohen
June 26th, 2007
at 3:37pm
I use a trackball for general use (on all computers) and a Wacom Graphire 4×5 (about $90) with its mouse and stylus when I need more precision.
This is on a c2d macbook pro 15″ and desktop pc.
Kevin "Shinmaryuu" Money
June 27th, 2007
at 2:40am
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Kevin "Shinmaryuu" Money
June 27th, 2007
at 2:40am
Chis from this video forward they are not showing up in iTubes via the RSS feed.
MightySandwich
June 6th, 2008
at 2:32am
I also have the Wacom Graphire 4×5 tablet. It came with Photoshop Elements 3 and Corel Painter Essentials 2, which I have been playing around with quite a bit. I recently bought Corel Painter X (Education Edition) for $85, and have found the pen to be an excellent input device.
I do, however, get the most use out of the mouse. It makes long sessions on my MacBook much easier, despite the fact that the trackpad on the MacBook is the best I’ve ever used. It has Back-Forward buttons on the 4×5 surface, and both the surface and mouse have scroll wheels. There are even buttons on the pen, though I must admit that they were a bit to hard and plasticky for my liking.
Overall, the Graphire tablet serves as a solid pen/mouse peripheral for both graphics and more commonplace activities. Best of all, it operates without any batteries whatsoever!
val
April 7th, 2009
at 6:58pm
I am looking for a pen I can use to draw and write figures and sums in realtime. It needs to be in real time as I want to record onscreen my tutorials I am ainstructor..I am using XP. I have used a few pens but it has delays and difficult to write properly. Any suggestions. I tried Intellipn.