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Wacom Tablet For Flower Photographer and Software Developer

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Wacom Tablet For Flower Photographer and Software Developer Robert L Cochran 13 Oct 00:45
  Wacom Tablet For Flower Photographer and Software Developer jeremy jozwik 13 Oct 00:54
  Wacom Tablet For Flower Photographer and Software Developer Rob Antonishen 13 Oct 01:44
Robert L Cochran
2010-10-13 00:45:32 UTC (over 14 years ago)

Wacom Tablet For Flower Photographer and Software Developer

I've been following the discussion of Wacom tablets with great interest. My wife has a birthday coming up. She has a collection of over 125,000 flower photographs which she mostly likes to view on a Windows XP computer with two widescreen monitors. I am thinking of presenting her with a Wacom tablet since she loves photography so much. Would this make sense for her? Her drawing skills are better than mine but she has no formal graphics education.

Would a Wacom also be of use to someone like me, I'm just a software developer, but I was wondering if I could connect a Wacom to a TV and draw diagrams right on the Wacom which could then show on TV. Or am I off base there? I too have a small photo collection which I like to organize and edit heavily, mostly for practical how-to type wiki posts.

Bob Cochran Maryland, USA

jeremy jozwik
2010-10-13 00:54:06 UTC (over 14 years ago)

Wacom Tablet For Flower Photographer and Software Developer

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Robert L Cochran wrote:

Would a Wacom also be of use to someone like me, I'm just a software developer, but I was wondering if I could connect a Wacom to a TV and draw diagrams right on the Wacom which could then show on TV. Or am I off base there? I too have a small photo collection which I like to organize and edit heavily, mostly for practical how-to type wiki posts.

i recommend them for everyone. much better for your hands and a much more comfortable pointing device.

only thing is, learning curve. me and my wife love our tablets. i have a tablet pc, we both have tablets on our workstations and she is about to buy a cintiq. however, my sister cannot stand them, she cannot get over the hump of the learning curve.

thats about the only thing you might want to worry about. perhaps getting it from someplace that you can easily return it would be the best bet.

Rob Antonishen
2010-10-13 01:44:22 UTC (over 14 years ago)

Wacom Tablet For Flower Photographer and Software Developer

The dual monitor setup is also an issue for some tablets. If you map the area of both screens to the tablet area you will either have a different aspect ratio (bad for drawing) or only use a portion of the tablet.

Some of the higher end tablets allow for screen toggling (i.e. toggle the screen the tablet is active on) so you need to check that.

-Rob A>