Wacom Intuos3 6 x 8-Inch Pen Tablet by Wacom
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Digital camera reviews of Wacom Intuos3 6 x 8-Inch Pen Tablet
Digital camera Review: Excellent product
Summary: 4 Stars
Nicely built--the styling is a little glossy for me though--I still like the old matte beige tablets of yore.
+ Different nibs to play with!
+ Smoooth
+ Mac/Pc (configurable driver for either platform)
- Price :(
- Rocker switch on pen is useless for me.
Very nice entry level tablet.
Digital camera Review: Excellent product.
Summary: 5 Stars
Very enjoyable to draw on. I had bought the graphire4 4x5 when I was in college a few years ago to tinker with in photoshop. I decided to get into drawing more seriously recently, and so I purchased the Intuos 3 6x8 as it was reasonably priced, and on sale. I now know why it was on sale, the Intuos4 just came out! Luckily I bought the Intuos3 within 30 days of noticing that the Intuos4 was out, so I just returned it and am awaiting the arrival of the Intuos4 Large, as I decided that I did want a larger drawing surface as I draw mostly from the shoulder and elbow.
Now on to the review: My first few strokes on the Intuos3 I noticed an immediate and vast improvement over the graphire4. I felt like I had been drawing on a cheap plastic toy in comparison to the smoothness and much more natural feeling Intuos3. Not only was the surface material superior, but its far more accurate. Line placement was keen and I could draw much more accurately then I could on the graphire4. It was almost uncanny how much more accurate, sometimes I felt like the tablet was drawing on its own, as when I would retrace lines I could actually retrace the same line instead of the frequent "almost the same" lines that I achieved on the graphire4. If line accuracy is important to you, the Intuos3 shines.
There were two cons with the Intuos3 for me. First was the button's on the right side were never used, simply because they were on the right side and I didn't like pushing buttons with the pen in my drawing hand. Second, i felt that my strokes were not being picked up by the intuos3, and I had to apply more then normal pressure to even do a light stroke. That was the same with the graphire4, but I was surprised to find the case was the same with the Intuos3. I guess thats because the Intuos3 takes 10 grams of pressure before anything is registered. The intuos4 solves both of those problems for me with having all the buttons on one side (ambidextrous design, flip it for lefty's) and 1 gram of pressure before it registers, which is why I decided to get that instead.
Digital camera Review: Excellent quaility
Summary: 5 Stars
Most have already covered what a quality tablet this is. I am loving mine also. I've also replaced my daily mouse and mousepad to save space. The only gripe I have about the mouse is that with a normal mouse, I can have my arm/mouse at an angle, move "back" and the mouse will move down on the screen, however on this tablet, it would move sideways and down. Since there's no "eye" in the mouse, it only moves according to the location on the tablet. It takes some getting used to based on how I personally used a mouse, but it's no big deal.
Another thing to note is that the 6x8 pad autocalibrates to your monitor size for the pen so if you put the pen in the corner it will be at the corner of your screen, if you lift up and put it in the middle, it will be in the middle of the screen. The mouse however functions like a normal mouse...so you can lift and move it and the cursor will stay in the same place until you actually slide it over. This is my first tablet so that was an interesting peculiarity to me.
Also, I got a refurbished 6x8 intuos3 from adorama for half the price (well 169 free shipping no tax). It's refurbished by the factory and is packaged and looks exactly like it would brand new. You can't tell the diff except for the refurbished sticker on the box. At that price it's an absolute steal.
Digital camera Review: Excellent quality and an invaluable tool
Summary: 5 Stars
I spend about 10 hours a day working in Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, and other design related programs including 3D Studio Max. I've been using a Wacom tablet for about six years now, and I love it. It would be impossible for me to create the designs and illustrations that I do without my Wacom. As an artist and designer, I used traditional mediums for years, and then spent another couple of years trying to figure out how to use a mouse in a way that would permit me to create quality images and designs on the computer quickly and in a way that resembled traditional methods. The Wacom tablet has been my solution and the solution of dozens of my colleagues. I use the old Intuos at home, and I use the Intuos 3 at work. The new Intuos features a USB connection that permits hot-swappable, on-the-go design. Also, the new Intuos pens are much more comfortable to hold that the old plastic pens because of the rubber coated grip. The tip on the pen seem much more "springy" and responsive. The pressure sensitivity is amazing and allows me the complete control over the virtual medium that I am handling (airbrush, pencil, ink, paint, etc). Photoshop, Illustrator, and Flash are all designed to work with the pressure sensitive pens, and the level of control is amazing. Photoshop's new custom brush palette, combined with the Wacom tablet, permit me to create custom brushes to simulate the appearance of color pencil, pastels, and chalk in such a realistic manner that it's difficult to discern what is real and what is digital. Both of the tablets I own have the 6x8 drawing surface, which I find to be an adequate size for me to accomplish all of my design-work and illustrations. It also is a convenient size to fit into my laptop bag (outer dimensions are about 10"x13"). I absolutely love my Wacom, and I'm ashamed that I didn't place a review for this superior product before now. Several of my coworkers and friends have purchased less expensive versions from competitors, but have regretted the purchase and have switched to Wacom. I was helping a coworker select a Wacom tablet for her desk this morning (as a replacement for another brand) when I decided to write this review for the Wacom tablet. Bottom line for the Wacom 6x8: convenient size, excellent pressure sensitivity, durable construction, excellent value for the price. I would consider this a must-have for any serious digital illustrator or designer.Digital camera Review: Excellent tool
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this Wacom 6x8 to replace an aging UD series Tablet I've had since 1995 (I think It's been so long I don't even remember)! The UD Tablet was faithful and never broke once on me. It was big and kind of clunky, interfaced using a Serial cable and had a seperate power cable with a transformer style plug. Let me tell you how much easier this new Wacom Tablet is to use and set up!
LOTS!, that's right LOTS easier! The old Tablet was 12X12 so while it had more surface area it was almost too big for my needs. This 6X8 is perfect in size, plugs in with one simple USB connection and software installed very easily. Setting up the Tablet was a snap too, the software makes it very easy to get the pressure sensitivity right where I need it. Speaking of sensitivity, it is by far more responsive than my old UD Tablet as well.
The flexible functionality of the buttons left and right of the drawing area were easy to program to do I wanted. I had to disable the left scroll area since I am left handed and I kept running my hand over it. It was no problem though since I have a scroll bar on the right side too. Nice of them to take care of us Left handers.
The stylus pen feels very nice and light and is multi functional without being annoying, as in, the buttons are not placed such where I hit them by accident. I tend to twirl whatever I'm drawing with, a habit I picked up drawing with a pencil, twirling it to move to the sharp edge but this does not present a problem with this pen where as it was a bit of a aggravation on my old UD Stylus.
I just completed a job of retouching over 350 images for a catalog and I used the tablet to do airbrushing. Adding in shadows and doing blemish removal in photoshop and it's really thanks to this tablet it made it so easy.
Highly recommended! Keeping my fingers crossed this one lasts as long as my old UD Tablet did. (BTW my UD still works too but it seems they stopped software supporting it with XP Service Pack 3).