[jupiter123]

My DH is awesome. He just bought me a bamboo touch and pen tablet.

I have a little trouble with being accurate with a mouse at times when editing my pictures and we were wandering around HN when we found these tablets. Whilst I am busy ogling this shiney gadget, DH is asking me questions about what it is, what I would use it for etc

Little did I know that he was also telling the sales person that we would take it

I have set it up, installed the required software and all I can say is holy sh*t it's awesome.

I have edited a couple of pics and love it, so easy to use, it's just like using a pen.

[raven74]

So cool! To what level of editing can you do with it?

[jupiter123]

So cool! To what level of editing can you do with it?

Everything.

You can go through your all your menus with it, navigate your whole machine as if you were using a mouse, use the pen for all editing, use it to convert handwriting to text, draw as if you were using a pen or pencil the list is endless lol.

A lot of professionals use them for graphics work, so whilst this isn't of the professional level it's still damn awesome

[blue4me]

How nice of your DH!

Mine brought me home one years ago that was a friends that had upgraded to a new one. For some reason I found using a mouse easier so gave up on it. When I have a working desktop computer again I think I will have to give it another go.

[raven74]

ooooooohhhh! What a lovely man I think I'll add it to my "wish list!"

[~Bob~]

I love mine. I hated it for a week or so, but when I got used to it I couldn't believe that I ever edited with a mouse! Congrats OP!!

[mummy26]

I have the wacom intuos and don't use it as much as I should.

[Cat©]

Hmmmm I have one too, Ive had it for a year but never used it for photos, in fact I havent used it at all! PMSL

how do you set it up to use it in photoediting? I tried to set it up for my son to use to write with and just couldnt get it to work properly!

[jupiter123]

Hmmmm I have one too, Ive had it for a year but never used it for photos, in fact I havent used it at all! PMSL

how do you set it up to use it in photoediting? I tried to set it up for my son to use to write with and just couldnt get it to work properly!

I just installed all the driver software and bundled software one of which was photoshop elements 9 and it just worked.

I don't know how it goes with earlier versions of photoshop or other photo editing software as yet, but I will test them out later today.

I did have to tweak the settings for the pen, movement speed, and touch hardness but that has been it.

[Madnesscraves]

Love them! They're fantastic! Best things ever invented