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I combined my bamboo with an A4 art pad and a multi buttoned computer mouse and created an Intuos4 large!

If only I had enough grist to combine my monitor with it.



So it's huge. Much bigger then I expected and can barely fit on my desk and here's a comparison between my bamboo and my intuos. It's a monster. I've never used a tablet this big before.  I was worried I should've ordered the medium, then I checked the specs and the medium would only literally be slightly bigger then my current bamboo. No way! If I'm going to spend this amount of money on something it's going to be big! Plus I liked the idea of having an A4 size area to draw on, rather then sticking to half that size.



The pen has an eraser on the top like a real pencil 8D and a stand to put it in that's pretty awesome right there.



So far it works great in Manga Studio, I had to adjust the sensitivity and the eraser actually erasers :D the round scroll wheel.. thing only works with two settings and that's the brush size and scroll between layers, the zoom and rotate canvas doesn't do anything, oh but I can scroll up and down with it.

It's a lot more sensitive then the bamboo, I could tell I had the pencil tool on the black layer as it was grey, whilst normally it's only very slight and I tend to not noticed I've selected it by mistake until a while later.

The buttons are pretty cool, I'm still figuring out what some of the buttons do, the second one brings up a menu and I can copy and paste and stuff by just selecting them and the forth one changes the monitor for my pen, so I can keep it across both monitors or switch between only using monitor 1 or 2. Pretty cool.

The other buttons at the bottom is shift, ctrl, alt and hand grab, all work.

In photoshop it doesn't work. Well all the buttons work, zoom, change layer, brush layer and canvas rotation, but there's no sensitivity and no eraser. I'm not sure what I have to do to make it work, but I hardly use PS for art anyway, so that's fine by me XD googling it didn't come up with a clear answer, maybe it has something to do with drivers.

But overall it's awesome!

Just need to try it out properly now.

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:iconfallen-sama:
Awesome! Also, I used to have that same problem with the pressure sensitivity not working in photoshop sometimes. It could be your driver but sometimes you need to restart your computer for it to work. I don't have those problems anymore though. I'm not really sure what caused it.
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~Mutedmirth Feb 10, 2012  Student Digital Artist
Yeah it's working now, I guess it just needed a restart.
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:iconabcartandme:
It looks really cool! But that's all I can say, because I don't understand much of what you said about it apart from controls and things. I don't really do much Art apart from just on paper and I have no clue how to use tablets and Photoshop and stuff :/
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~Mutedmirth Feb 10, 2012  Student Digital Artist
lol it's something that you learn about eventually if you want to learn it. I used to just draw on paper and then scan it in, then I moved to inking my art with a tablet, although it did take a while to get used to drawing while looking at the screen and not what you're doing on the tablet but in programs like photoshop it has pressure sensitivity like a real pencil when you press hard for thick/dark lines and lighter for thin/light lines(but not as good)
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:iconabcartandme:
Oh that's pretty cool. I was thinking of getting a tablet but I was wondering if I'd even get any time to do anything. I have all this great stuff in my head that I want to get out and when I use my friend's wacom, I'm not bad, but I just don't know if it's worth getting if I'm not going to use it.
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~Mutedmirth Feb 10, 2012  Student Digital Artist
well up to you, if you're not going to use it then there's no point in getting it I think.
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:iconabcartandme:
Yeah, I think so too. I'll just keep using my friend's one to the point where she screams violently at me :P She won't. Hopefully. o_o Thank you for the advice, anyway! :)
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:iconmutedmirth:
~Mutedmirth Feb 11, 2012  Student Digital Artist
lol well if you change your mind, you can get some cheap ones.
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:iconabcartandme:
Alright, thanks for the advice :)
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:icondojang:
doesn't work with potatoshop you say...hmmmMMMMM.

you're sure you've got the right drivers?
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