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Graphics tablets (which includes a flat drawing tablet and a pen) truly is an indispensable addition to your digital darkroom (that is digital photo editing), your digital art and drawing studio and your digital scrapbooking projects.

Quite frankly, there's nothing you can do with a mouse or track pad that isn't easier and more accurately done with a pen and tablet!

The original intent of this site was to provide some basic tablet set-up information because I found that users were not taking full advantage of the wide range of features available with their software/tablet configurations.

Well, you know how things go - somehow they expand beyond the original boundaries, don't they?

What started as a simple two or three page site has expanded to close to 300 pages and 70 videos and continues to grow (hey - it's way too much fun to stop)!

It just seemed reasonable to demonstrate the power and versatility of the graphics tablet from Wacom by writing a tutorial and then another one and then - well you get the idea ...

If you're interested (and I can't imagine why you wouldn't be) then here is a link to a full explanation and overview of the benefits of graphics tablets.

Software


The first thing to know is that the major digital editing software companies have gone to great lengths and expense to insure that their products (Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Painter and Paint Shop Pro) work seamlessly with the pen tablets from Wacom, taking full advantage of the built in pressure sensitivity and high resolution to create wonderful photo effects.

Normal every day digital editing tasks become much easier and way more accurate with a pen and tablet.  Tasks such as ...
  • Selecting
  • Painting
  • Working with menus
  • Using the tools
  • Drawing
  • Dragging
  • Adjustments in dialogue boxes
all become easier and quicker with a Wacom pen and tablet.



Tutorials


The tutorials cover how the Bamboo and Intuos lines of pen tablets from Wacom work with the most widely used software packages ...
  • Photoshop
  • Photoshop Elements
  • Paint Shop Pro
  • Painter Essentials
as well as some special applications such as ...
  • Scrapbooking
  • Photo Restoration
  • Black and White Conversion
and, of course, how to set up and use your Wacom tablet, be it Bamboo or Intuos.

Most of the tutorials include a video in addition to the written instructions.

Being a simple kind of guy I've tried to keep these tutorials easy to understand and easy to follow.  In addition, most of the tutorials make use of basic techniques which makes sense to me because advanced techniques are really just a bunch of basic stuff all put together.

So - check out the graphics tablets and then find the link to your digital editor of choice and have some fun which we should all do anyway!

What's New?

Portrait Series of Tutorials for Photoshop Elements

Photoshop Over/Under Exposure

Elements Over/Under Exposure

Photoshop Elements 10 Review

Paint Shop Pro Hair Tinting

Elements Clone Tool

Paint Shop Pro X4 Review


The Graphics Tablets Users Include

  • Pro Photographers
  • Graphics Designers
  • Industrial Designers
  • Scrapbookers
  • Crafters
  • Animators
  • Illustrators
  • Medical
  • Health Care Workers
  • Educators
  • Mapping
  • Office Workers
  • Control Systems
  • Scrapbookers
  • Presentations
  • Families
  • Amateur Photographers
  • Students
  • Video and Audio Pros
My point of view about the value of graphics tablets is this - no matter what you are doing in your digital editing, a pen and tablet will out perform a mouse every time.



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