NEED info about TABLETS...

okay, i just got word from my parents that they are thinking about purchassing me a tablet for my 18th birthday, and therefore i want to know VERY little detail about the tablets you people are using, and what i should look to for quality

what kind of specs does a good tablet have?

what should i look for??

PLEASE tell me EVERYTHING!!!!

about 200 bucks lol tahts all u need ot know and photoshop

shut ur hole butt, u know thats not what i mean....

i like the intous2 6X8 with mouse and pen for 300 but thats a little expencive lol

tablets rule in corel and photoshop MUAAHHAAHHA u must get 1

Well... you know Wacom brand is the best.

When you get a tablet... get a large one...

the 8.5x11 if you can... and make sure that you practice alot with it... it's not like using a pen...it's different.

I have an Intuos2 4x5... it works for what I do with it... mainly some minimal shading... but you have to practice alot to get good enough with it to do stuff like Leppy's awesome stuff.

icbm1987

p.s. there is a reason Butt ended on my ignore list... I can't undo that tho.

o0mg icbm.. ur a geniouse... two good ideas... byebye buttyboy, u are now officially on my ignore list.

and i mean more like, exact specs, like, how much pressure points it has per mm2 or cm2, how pressure sensitive, what size is usefull.. and ofcourse the brand... yes...

go to the wacom website

you should find almost all your answers there.

icbm1987

aah thnx :D

.........grrrr......wtf did i do just becouse u cant read chat talk doesnt mean that the english major among us needs to be all pissy

the silence...

No problem Erwtie!!!

It is nice not to have to look at mindless drivel... and I shouldn't have to stress my mind just to translate it... and I don't

but then again I can't really remove him from my ignore list.

icbm1987

WHAT? They are going to buy that for your BIRTHDAY???????????


You RICH spoiled KID!!!!!!!


Ok just kidding..... but they are DAMN expensive..... I was hoping I could buy one but when I saw the price..... I was like "WOW! DAMMIT!"
It's R$ 1249,00 here, dude... You usanians (yes, usanians) are so damn lucky...

R= rupee? or am I missing something?

I got mine for around US$200.

icbm1987

not everyone in the US is rich you know... i think too many sterotypes have been born about americans... especially since Bush came into the office. Im a republican, but i still hate Bush. He has no concern for the government, is in bed with big buisness, and put us into a war when we didnt (and we still dont) know where the object of our first "operation," O'sama Bin Laden (do i have the accents and the spacing right?) is. Stupid Bush...:nono:

I just got my WACOM Intuos2 6x8 in the mail this afternoon - my first tablet purchase ever, and I've been busy with homework so I haven't had a chance to try it out yet. I imagine I will get a bit of time to tomorrow.

6x8 is a pretty good size, and I doubt you'd really need larger, but I don't know if WACOM has an 8.5x11 size - I think the next one up is 9x12, then 12x12. I wouldn't go any larger than 9x12, as that'd take up a damn lot of room on your desk. =)

6x8 seems just perfect to me (the actual drawing size is 6x8 - there are a couple of extra inches of material on the sides, about 1 on top, and maybe 1.5 on the bottom, for your hand to rest on I suppose). 1024 levels of pressure sensitivity as you've no doubt found out by now. A lot of people get the Graphire, a more affordable version with the only difference that it has like half the sensitivity I think.

My Intuos2 cost $250, $260 after shipping. I'm dying to use it, but there's still more work to be done. =\ Damn printmaking class! *picks splinters out of her fingers*