I can't get rid of the keyboard for text but I don't do much with text
in Photoshop. If I need to type I type but when I work in LR and PS
the pen and shortcut keys do 90%.
I didn't like the feel of the 'drag' of my finger on the tablet. The
pen is smoother. I do this for hours a day, day in and day out. I like
the fluid feel of the pen.
Yes, you can set the tablets to do the same things you can do with
keyboard commands but the issue becomes WHERE the tablet is relative
to the keyboard on your desk. I have a specialized keyboard tray, the
large Intuos tablet and short arms. When I use the tablet I put it on
my keyboard tray, move my keyboard up on my desk and work away. The
Intuos shortcut keys run along the side of the tablet so while my
fingers move up and down the side accessing the keys my arms aren't
moving much at all. If I only did this kind of work every now and
again it might not matter but I'm at my desk for easily 5 hours a day
working on images. Simplifying my movements is huge to my physical
comfort while I work.
That is a downside to the Bamboo in my mind...the shortcut buttons are
at the top. Not efficient for my needs because they required way, way
too much arm moving.
It may be exactly what you need. I'm just not sure. It's at a darn
good price point, that's fir certain.
Lea
life is short. photograph it.
On Dec 13, 2009, at 8:38 AM, "Emily L. Ferguson"
<elf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
At 7:56 AM -0600 12/13/09, Lea Murphy wrote:
What I discovered with the Bamboo is that it could do so much but
not enough so the keyboard couldn't get very far away. My desk is
such that this was a HUGE PAIN both physically on my body and on my
brain. That was the main reason for moving to the Intuos4...way
more command keys on the tablet itself which cuts down on my need
for the keyboard.
Interesting. How would you get away from having to use the keyboard
to input text? I've always regarded the keyboard as a given - as
long as we need words we will never get rid of it.
But the pen - now that's the tool I'd most like to be free of. If
the touch part of the Bamboo could do everything I now use the pen
for I could get rid of it, and the trackball.
It took me awhile to figure out how to program the custom buttons
on my Intuos but once I did it changed my life. The can be
customized differently for each program I use regularly then have
standard universal settings for everything else. Crazy cool.
I do understand that, but I have yet to work out how they can work
with my workflow. For instance, nearly everything they can be
scripted for I do with keyboard commands - print, save, cut, paste,
save as, confirm (the return or enter key), select all. In
Photoshop I have a list of actions which are Function key activated,
but I rarely use them on single images - I nearly always use them
from Bridge for batch processing
Hope this is a little helpful.
Thank you. Every bit of someone else's experience is helpful, always!
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