Wacom PTH660 Intuos Pro Digital Graphic Drawing Tablet for Mac or PC, Medium, New Model, Black

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The front portion of the pen has rubber-like material which feels soft and gives more grip. Pentips The touch ring enables you to perform shortcuts like zoom, rotate, pan, scroll and most importantly change the size of the brush and eraser. The Wacom Pro Pen 2’s stand stores additional nubs. The pen itself has two customizable buttons – flip it upside down and you can use it as an eraser. The tablet itself has rubber grip on the bottom to keep it in place, and its slim profile makes it easy to travel with or store away when space is limited. In use With paper edition, you get an extra pen a clip for clipping your paper and a small storage pouch. Design and Build Quality source: wacom.com The driver allows you to make some basic as well as advanced settings like changing from right hand to left-hand mode and properly calibrating the tablet to your monitor screen.

The medium and large models come with a total of eight shortcut button which is divided into two groups of 4 button. These things combined with a very stable and updated driver makes the Intuos Pro lasts for years and that is why serious artists prefer it more than the cheaper alternatives.There is very little noticeable lag, which can be a problem with cheaper tablets, and the pen is comfortable in your hand for long stints, providing superb pressure responsiveness and giving you innate control and precision for detailing. The best thing about this tablet is the excellent ergonomics. Most notably, there's a new VESA mount that can be combined with its adjustable stand (or indeed any VESA-compatible arm or stand) to give you extra flexibility in positioning. With that said Wacom Intuos comes with the Pro Pen 2 which is Wacom’s most advanced stylus. It is arguably the best stylus in the market. All the buttons are fully customizable and can be set to a different shortcut in the driver settings.

You can also customize the button on the pen along with changing the pressure settings. On-screen shortcuts like radial menus can also be set as per your liking. Accessories Now all the tablets in the market come with some kind of surface texture but no one has been able to perfect the recipe. To further customize the feel of the tablet – the Intuos Pro comes with different types of pen nibs with have their own grip levels. These more advanced Wacom tablets also offer higher resolutions, greater levels of pressure sensitivity and Bluetooth as standard. In other words, they’re a better bet for more detailed and refined drawings, and thus a better fit for semi-pro artists and designers. Be aware, though, that they are more expensive, as well as being quite a bit heavier. This model also comes with four extra pen color rings and a texture sheet sample card. The premium Pro Pen 2, supplied with the tablet, is one of the best styluses around (save of course for the recent Pro Pen 3 that comes with the new Cintiq Pro tablets), and it never needs charging. With pressure and tilt sensitivity, it gives you real drawing flexibility, and the level of “bite” on the stylus is just right.Of course, Photoshop is not the only application the Intuous Pro is good for; I also used the tablet to work on images in Adobe Lightroom. And while it was useful for cloning and healing, I found it to be a little unwieldy when making adjustments to the slider. Ultimately I think I still prefer utilizing the mouse and the keyboard shortcuts that have been burned into my muscle memory for Lightroom work. Bottom line Finally, think about how big a drawing area you need. If you've never used a graphics tablet before, it may be worth trying one in a shop, or just practising on a piece of paper to get a sense of what works best. The Wacom Pro Pen 2 is incredibly responsive but feels slightly too sensitive with the default settings. Once set up, it does provide a very natural feel when drawing concept designs, texture painting and sculpting, and it performed well in Photoshop, Painter, Mari, Maya and ZBrush during testing, although that was after a few hours of getting used to it. When choosing the best Wacom tablet for your specific needs, what should you looking for? Start with the number of levels of pressure sensitivity, which suggests how closely the drawing on screen will resemble your actual pen marks. The more, the better. If you're a beginner or casual drawer, you'll probably find the lower end of 2,048 perfectly fine, but if you're a pro or semi-pro you may prefer more more.

You may get a cheap tablet that costs half its price but after a couple of months, you would realize the drawing surface is getting scratched off and wearing apart. Paper edition of the Wacom Intuos Pro is like a 2 in one device. It works like a normal Intuos Pro – but can also convert your paper drawing into digital files with the help of a special pen.There are a lot of cheap devices in the market which try to match the Intuos pro in terms of numbers and specs list. Opening the base you can access the nib storage area where all the extra nibs are safely stored in padded compartments. Shortcut keys – Buttons and touch ring Also of note is that I observed no noticeable lag time between tablet and computer screen when it was connected via USB. The Bluetooth connection also seemed quite good, though I did notice a little bit of latency when using the paintbrush tool for extended periods of time.