I think touch-phones and touch-pads have already mentally tuned us to direct pointing, but those devices have the display and touch-sensor aligned. Getting used to Pen, as a navigation / desktop-pointer tool, takes some getting used to. I like SumoPaint, which I've used before, and is not bad for decent drawings / illustrations. pretty much the same crop that you see on Firefox, Opera, Chrome - but seemingly hand-picked, and pretty relevant to usage with a pen. On installing drivers and software, I got pressure-sensitivity and something called Bamboo-dock. Worked in MS-Paint as expected (as a pen).

Without drivers, on Win 7, it worked as a mouse right-away.

not cheap, flaky plastic), is quite sleek, and pretty responsive. I wasn't expecting anything pro-grade, but it seems to be pretty adequate. It is the entry-level product, but based on my first day experience, I think it is quite nice. What are the other 'free' (as in beer) alternatives for my purpose/use-case? Ideally, I'd prefer something that is not very resource hungry, as my PC isn't very powerful (yeah, living with a lot of constraints!).įinally I went ahead and got myself a Wacom Bamboo One 'Medium' (6x9) tablet. Given that I'd be using vector graphics, can I assume that 'free-hand drawn' images will scale-up nicely? Since the table is of a particular size, which is roughly half or sometimes even a quarter of the paper size I use normally, would the experience be very different ? I think I can mostly make-do with vector-graphics, and occasionally embed bit-maps (s.a.

Although I am not aware of the real potential of Inkscape for my purpose. Given my budget, and a quick assessment of needs and reviews of various graphic tablets, I am thinking of ordering the Wacom Bamboo One CTE 660 Pen Tablet which as per specs is a wide-format 8.5'x5.5' entry-level tablet.ĭuring my research I've found that I could potentially use it with Inkscape, since I am not in a position to make an investment in professional software. I believe that I am okay'ish with pen and paper, but recently decided to go digital. I do some caricature, cartoons and illustrations, as hobby.

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