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| Jigsaw
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|  "Re(1):Tablets for gaming?"
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Using a tablet could theoretically work pretty with RTS games and I've even contemplated attempting to play lightgun games on MAME with mine just to see how it is... I don't expect it to work well, but what the heck. :D
Seriously though, I guess it depends on how much precision you need in whatever game you're playing. Whenever I'm using my Wacom, I have a pretty hard time doing accurate 'clicks' so to speak, and using it in Windows when I'm too lazy to switch to the mouse is often quite a pain... but if you don't need to be THAT accurate, I guess it could work.
Also, for the record, when I draw stuff, usually I draw something on paper, scan it and touch it up/colour it in Photoshop with my Wacom, but sometimes I do draw stuff completely from scratch in Photoshop.
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| Ultima 360th Post
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| "Re(1):Just bought a Wacom tablet, anyone got" , posted Tue 18 May 05:56
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I bought it hoping to create artwork straight on my computer, but I am finding it hard to draw with even though I have artistic skills with a traditional pencil. What do any of you guys do? Do you draw on paper, scan it in, and just color? Or have you learned to do everything in say photoshop?
I would love to get a waco tablet to try stuff out on, but I have never been able to afford one. So I do things the old fashioned way: Draw it, and scan it in and colour in Photoshop.
Actually, I draw it, ink it, run the inked drawing througj Adobe Streamline, then import into Photoshop to colour. Streamline makes a huge difference in smoothing out the lines.
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| Joe Randel
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| "Re(4):Just bought a Wacom tablet, anyone got" , posted Tue 18 May 08:08
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Adobe Steamline? I've never heard of this before... tell me more...
Streamline takes scanned line art in bitmap (or whatever) form and converts the lines to vectors. As vectors, they are now seamless and precise - no rough edges whatsoever, and can be re-scaled to any size you want. The only drawback to Streamline is that it doesn't work too well on straight pencil (I started inking my stuff strictly to work in Streamline), and you may have to fiddle with the settings a bit to get the effect you want, but once you get this to work, you'll be amazed at the results. It can really make a huge difference.
I'm probbaly underselling Streamline, as it can probably do more, but I've never used it to do anything other than clean up my inked pencil drawings. :p
Hmmm... my only fear is that it'll create a zillion nodes and slow down my computer, but I just might check it out...
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| Ammadeau 973th Post
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| "Re(2):Just bought a Wacom tablet, anyone got" , posted Tue 18 May 10:34
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i have a hard time with photoshop  the thing measures the pressure i use, but it jumps from a single pixel to a huge blob of them without warning. probably some option i've gotta fix
This is because photoshop sucks.
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anyways, i haven't heard anyone mention the zoom tool. i dunno about painter or photoshop, but when doing stuff on a drawboard, that thing helps out a lot. everything i've posted on a drawboard ever has been utter crap. but i bet i could've fixed them up nicely using zoom
My work image is 4x the size of my final image. I draw my rough at 50% and my final at 100%, though sometimes go to 200% for really fine details. I don't suggest you do this because it's taking me a hell of a long time to do anything so I must be doing something wrong.
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also, i use the "eraser" to draw a lot, although i'm not sure how that'd work in programs like painter or paintshop that detects which end you're using. the little mouse buttons on the "lead" end get in my way too often. there's nothing like doing intricate color work, then double-clicking by accident
By magic. Actually, Painter has a bug where it occasionally doesn't realize I've flipped the stylus over, but it works fine 95% of the time. And once you get used to it, it's really hard to use something like the drawing board that doesn't support it.
Updated when I can... which isn't very often. ^_^;;
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| Undead Fred 1550th Post
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| "Re(1):Just bought a Wacom tablet, anyone got " , posted Wed 19 May 02:55
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I bought it hoping to create artwork straight on my computer, but I am finding it hard to draw with even though I have artistic skills with a traditional pencil. What do any of you guys do? Do you draw on paper, scan it in, and just color? Or have you learned to do everything in say photoshop?
I've got the smallest size of wacom, and I've gotten my money's worth and more. I use it to color sketches I've done, and to draw on oekaki boards and paintchat. I've said this a million times, but the size of the drawing area doesn't matter because your brain adjusts (top right corner of the drawing area corresponds to the top right corner of the computer screen and so on).
The tips I'd give are stuff already mentioned, actually. If you draw directly in Photoshop, then use multiple layers- make a separate guide layer and draw on a different layer on top of that so your guides are easily erased, and you can even use the old guide layer for background color. For scans, I'd recommend duplicating your main layer, doing a white fill on the background layer, then taking the scanned image layer (it'll be the duplicated layer, NOT the background layer) and putting a "multiply" layer effect on it. Then, go to the background layer and start painting in the color. That way, your pen/ pencil lines will more or less burn into the colors below, so you won't be able to tell that you had basically just colored underneath the scanned image. Drawing directly on the computer- I'd also recommend drawing zoomed in (as others have mentioned). That helps you control what you're doing. But it's important to zoom out to the full image every once in a while to check your proportions and stuff, though.
Anyway, hope some of that helped.
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| Holiday 2342th Post
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| "Re(2):Just bought a Wacom tablet, anyone got" , posted Wed 19 May 03:26
I use the wacom tablet a lot when I have to work on video/film footage. Actually, the software is designed to be used just with the tablet, even for the interface, so it's pretty unique in that sense? I use this:
Discreet Inferno
Although... I feel that the software is horribly overpriced and overrated, but they have good pr and marketing so everyone wants them :p
I use the tablet for for quickly painting out unwanted elements in video footage (rigging, wire, stupid guy who wasn't supposed to be in the scene etc.) if all other methods fail. I hate doing this task as it's tedious, but I'd rather use a tablet rather than a mouse.
Other than that it's good for colouring jobs, especially delicate ones.
The tablet I use is about 20inches long :)
Of course, it's the company's and not mine.
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