[Gimp-user] Wacom Tablet For Flower Photographer and Software Developer

2010-10-12 Thread Robert L Cochran
  I've been following the discussion of Wacom tablets with great 
interest. My wife has a birthday coming up. She has a collection of over 
125,000 flower photographs which she mostly likes to view on a Windows 
XP computer with two widescreen monitors. I am thinking of presenting 
her with a Wacom tablet since she loves photography so much. Would this 
make sense for her? Her drawing skills are better than mine but she has 
no formal graphics education.

Would a Wacom also be of use to someone like me, I'm just a software 
developer, but I was wondering if I could connect a Wacom to a TV and 
draw diagrams right on the Wacom which could then show on TV. Or am I 
off base there? I too have a small photo collection which I like to 
organize and edit heavily, mostly for practical how-to type wiki posts.

Bob Cochran
Maryland, USA

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Re: [Gimp-user] Wacom Tablet For Flower Photographer and Software Developer

2010-10-12 Thread jeremy jozwik
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Robert L Cochran
cochr...@speakeasy.net wrote:
 Would a Wacom also be of use to someone like me, I'm just a software
 developer, but I was wondering if I could connect a Wacom to a TV and
 draw diagrams right on the Wacom which could then show on TV. Or am I
 off base there? I too have a small photo collection which I like to
 organize and edit heavily, mostly for practical how-to type wiki posts.

i recommend them for everyone. much better for your hands and a much
more comfortable pointing device.

only thing is, learning curve. me and my wife love our tablets. i have
a tablet pc, we both have tablets on our workstations and she is about
to buy a cintiq. however, my sister cannot stand them, she cannot get
over the hump of the learning curve.

thats about the only thing you might want to worry about. perhaps
getting it from someplace that you can easily return it would be the
best bet.
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Re: [Gimp-user] Wacom Tablet For Flower Photographer and Software Developer

2010-10-12 Thread Rob Antonishen
The dual monitor setup is also an issue for some tablets.  If you map
the area of both screens to the tablet area you will either have a
different aspect ratio (bad for drawing) or only use a portion of the
tablet.

Some of the higher end tablets allow for screen toggling (i.e. toggle
the screen the tablet is active on) so you need to check that.

-Rob A
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Re: [Gimp-user] Wacom Tablet For Flower Photographer and Software Developer

2010-10-12 Thread Johan Vromans
Rob Antonishen rob.antonis...@gmail.com writes:

 Some of the higher end tablets allow for screen toggling (i.e. toggle
 the screen the tablet is active on) so you need to check that.

I would have expected this to be the task of the operating system, not
the tablet.

-- Johan
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