murphle wrote:
I know there are many people who support the use of tablets and many who don't even use their mouse anymore. Several years ago, I purchased a Wacom Intuos Pro 4 Medium to the tune of about 375.00.... oddly, they are about the same price point today.
I enjoyed using it to edit while I was at a desktop; however, I had eventually committed myself to a laptop only environment, which wasn't as tablet friendly due to a lot of couch editing and no room for said tablet. Let's fast forward a decade, and while I still utilize my laptop, I've also re-integrated a wonderful iMac M1 into my workflow. I love editing images on this larger screen, and would like to utilize my tablet again. Well, guess what? My tablet (PTK-640) is no longer supported by Wacom and doesn't work on either of my Macs - not even my 2017 macbook pro. I mean, it's old - pristine condition, but old. So sad:(
Now let's get to the good stuff. Those of you who edit with Wacom tablets, what size are you using? What model? I've tried 'sidecar' on the laptop to use my iPad Pro 12.9 (pencil 2) and just don't feel the same level of awesomeness in Photoshop that I feel with the Wacom (when it worked). Same goes for the new iMac, exact same experience with shared display. For some, it may be great, but after using the Wacom, the editing experience was so smooth that the iPad is no competition for what it does. The different 'nibs' on the Wacom pen were great also.
Any input in this area is greatly appreciated.... I don't necessarily feel like tossing out 380.00 again, but I will, LOL. If a smaller size (250.00) is good enough, I would go for the pro small. Thoughts, hogs?
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Hi, I bought the PTH660 Intuos Pro Medium. Even it's real estate is pretty large however, you can define the size of the tablet you want to use. I picked it because the medium and the large had more sensitivity than the small version at the time, I do not know if that is still true.
the other advantage of the medium is that it is about the same physical size as my MacBook Pro 14" and they both fit nicely in the carry bag when going to photo club (if we can ever meet in person again), seminars or vacation.
I too tried the iPad Pro 12.9 with a pen and screen share, it just isn't the same feel yet it should be easier as you can actually see the image on the iPad.
I bought mine about three years ago and it runs great on Monterey with the M1 pro chip