wacom pad

[t5Nitro]

Trying to decide if the intuos 4 medium is worth the extra money over the small. The small pad workspace is 6.2" in length and 3.9" wide.

The medium is at 8.8" length and 5.5" wide. Anyone have any experience with either of these, or particularly the small and if it's sufficient enough?

 

[aquariumclown]

Depends what your trying to do and if you have a really large monitor to use it with. If you have a 24" lcd, then the medium one is good. Personally I don't like having to move my arm all over the place unless I'm really trying for accuracy and the graphic is zoomed in. But the smaller one might be too small, the large is too big.

 

[IPT]

I have the medium. I like it, but to be honest I've been lazy for quite a while now and rarely find myself using it. I also haven't been doing a lot of detailed editing for prints. Personally i think you should go with the bigger one. I think the other one is a tad too small...

 

[truthdesigns]

What are you using it for?
I have been looking at getting one
for vector work in adobe illustrator!

 

[BlueCorn]

Bigger is better, especially if you have a large monitor.

I use mine a lot for dodging/burning but that's something that I do on virtually every image.

 

[truthdesigns]

Interesting I always thought they were for illustration use.
But I guess if your doing a lot in photoshop with brushes
that makes since.

 

[t5Nitro]

I ended up getting the medium intuos 4. Great product!

 

[clockwurk]

I find the medium is the best. The large one for me is a little overkill. I run 2 x 24" cinema displays and I've never "needed" a bigger wacom than the 6x8. Although the 6x11 is nice, I dont think they make those for the Intuos 4 currently.

 

[t5Nitro]

Cinema displays? Apple? I wanted to hook up a monitor to my macbook pro but I don't know if it's even capable of that. I thought it would be cool to have one monitor for all the tool presets and layers and the main monitor with the side tools and the image.

Any ideas how to set this up?

 

[BlueCorn]

All you have to do is plug in a monitor. MBP all have external monitor ports.

 

[t5Nitro]

I already bought the mini displayport to DVI adapter. That's really all it takes?

I want it so i can mouse between 2 monitors I guess just so I make sure that's correct, not just set up a monitor. So the laptop screen and a separate monitor will work that way?

 

[shirley386]

t5Nitro - What is your avatar? It almost looks like a hologram on my monitor.

 

[BlueCorn]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15588897#post15588897 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by t5Nitro
I already bought the mini displayport to DVI adapter. That's really all it takes?

I want it so i can mouse between 2 monitors I guess just so I make sure that's correct, not just set up a monitor. So the laptop screen and a separate monitor will work that way?

Si.

 

[jedininja]

You just have to plug the monitor in with the adapter and go into Preferences and set the monitors to be side by side instead of mirrored.

 

[t5Nitro]

Oh, cool. I might have to look into monitors later this year. Too bad the apple cinema displays are outrageous. :lol:

shirley386, I just created a background for my desktop and I liked it so I used it here as well. I think it just got packed close together that it makes it look that way. Almost like letters. Stretched out on the desktop background, it's just a texture.