fetish
drooling over the new Wacom Intuos4
The new Intuos4 tablet by Wacom was just announced and it has made me rethink the whole concept of sound financial behavior. In other words I NEED IT.
The new Intuos4 is a complete re-design of their previous tablets. The people at Wacom actually worked together with Adobe so that the new controls would work properly and intuitively with Photoshop. I’ve used a Wacom tablet for over a decade and can tell you that once you try them you are hooked. I read an analogy today on another blog where someone said that using a mouse to work with images on your computer is like using a baseball bat to create a painting. I couldn’t agree more.
Wacom is not a word usually seen in the same sentence as the word “affordable”, but in reality their products are so well made and last so for long that the investment in one of their tablets is actually very good. Once you see how much faster and precise your work is with a Wacom you realize how amazingly great they are.
Here’s a quick tour of the main features of the new Intuos4:
The first thing you notice is the new button layout on the tablet. They’ve replaced the “slider” strip with a wheel control and the placement is symetrical, allowing left handed people to rotate the tablet 180 degrees and have the exact same layout.
The buttons now have an actual display for their label. They change their name depending on the tool and application you are running. No guessing what each button does!
The wheel has a center button and allows for quick zooming and rotating just like an iPod. Quick and intuitive. Probably one of the new features that I will appreciate most when retouching since the navigation around an image will speed up considerably.
There are other new features like double the pressure sensitivity and improved pen and mouse so to check them out visit the Wacom site where they have a very cool presentation for the new Intuos4.
My new venture. Learn photography with me.
