Mouse pen for photshop

paddyrg

I have an A4 and a small graphics tablet (what these mouse pens are more commonly called) and actually use the small one more. You'd be surprised how tiring it is to use an A4 one when you're used to just twitching a mouse to get to a menu!

cookie365

Since you're asking on this forum, I guess you're not a professional designer? If you're going to get an income out of doing this, I'd go for the Wacom Intuos. Otherwise if you're just dabbling then a Trust one will be fine.

fc123

cookie365 wrote: »

Since you're asking on this forum, I guess you're not a professional designer? If you're going to get an income out of doing this, I'd go for the Wacom Intuos. Otherwise if you're just dabbling then a Trust one will be fine.

:rotfl:That made me smile. I am a prof designer but have a clothing business that supplies/has supplied most of the High st Chains in our sector........um...it is kind if sizeable too but would be inappropriate to post up that sort of info here as could come over a bit braggy.:o

Our webshop is run in house and we pay a photographer to come in to do the shoots and he also does the editing and the lady who runs the ecommerce hasn't been happy with some of the finished images.
Although she knows the bones of PS, we decided to go on a PS course 2 day for beginners with Cetitec...and it was great.

The massive advantage for me was changing colours for spec sheets as I hadn't a clue about PS before so would make a whole new garment in the new colourway to offer to buyers....now I can just alter hue and...Voila!.....


The thing is I am clunky with the mouse as I am a traditional artist....well old @ 50, (with pens, crayons and paper) so have been finding the wand a bit tricky and someone told me about mouse pens Figured would make my life easier. You know, work smarter not harder and all that.:)

I am not un-techy in some things as, for example, I have taught myself to CAD pattern cut as we now email patterns to factory and this skill has saved me £1000's and £1000's as well as being accurate and enables more creativity (IMO).


I am still a bit stuck as the trust looked perfect but the Wacom gets good reviews.
I just want to manipulate the mouse in a more 'pencil' like way really.

neilwoods

I would say the main difference is the pen, seems the trust pen just has 1024 or 2048 pressure. Same for wacom, but it has tilt action. So as you know pencils and crayon, if you hold the pencil at a certain angle you get 1 stroke, different angle different stroke. Plus you can get various types of tips for the wacom.

Plus you can also get Wacom airbrush, which i would imagine would be ideal for shading on clothes design.

Another feature i like of the new wacom is the touch controls, almost like a ipad or android tablet, use fingers to swipe and pinch & zoom.