Wacom tablet

My Wacom Bamboo digital tablet arrived yesterday!

Rushed home, plugged it into my computer and sat down to watch through Wacom’s well-made instructions and tutorial DVD, gave me a few quick, good and educating hints on how to use the pen properly and how to act while using it.

I must say, the leap from using a mouse to using a tablet and pen is huge, I haven’t drawn a lot yet, need more practice and “getting used to” navigating with the pen and such, but there sure is potential for a lot of improvement.

About the Wacom Bamboo, the design on the tablet itself is really slick, black (There are other colors) and really lean, a futuristic design. The active area is 14.8 cm x 9.2 cm, which surprisingly is enough to draw on, the pen-tip acts wonderful against the surface and the motion-detector in the tablet catches every movement, even with the pen lifted up to 3 mm from the surface (Note: You will only be able to ‘navigate’ when you hover the pen-tip over the surface).

The tablet has four buttons, whereas two of them are programmable (The FN (Function) keys), you can fit them for anything you need fast access to.
The less you need to control with your mouse/keyboard, the more time you can spend getting to know and play around with the pen.

There’s also a neat touch-sensitive scroll wheel and zoom in-out pad built into the tablet, all made up for quick, easy and intellectual maneuvering and use.

All in all, I think it was a great investment and purchase, will keep me entertained and constructive for a while.

Perhaps I’ll upload a few doodles here!

Visit Wacom’s Bamboo at their web-page.