At 7:03 AM -0600 12/13/09, Lea Murphy wrote:
Yes. I like using the pen much better, though.
So you use the pen for navigating as well as more specific activities like selecting in Photoshop? What was it about the touch method of cursor control that made you prefer the pen?
I ended up getting the Intuos 4.
Do you still have the Bamboo? If so, would you like to get it out of your house!
I used a tablet years ago then stopped. Can't imagine why.
I've been using an Intuos 2 for a long time, maybe 7 or 8 years now. I use the pen for everything, but have never used the little buttons on the tablet on it at all, or the button on the pen. I've also never figured out how to make the pressure sensitivity feature of any value to me. But then, I don't edit my photographs in Photoshop except to remove dust spots - I've never been able to draw, and because of that drawing has never been part of my ways of expression.
Alternatively I use a trackball in the other hand for navigating through menus and for image actions which require the cursor to stay somewhere and not wobble. And I use a large repertoire of keyboard commands.
The touch commands of the Bamboo seem like a useful feature especially if I could eventually abandon the pen entirely. I think I'd like a single input device that did everything that the keyboard commands didn't do.
Does your experience with the Bamboo indicate that it might be that in the hand of a skillful user?
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