Wacom Intuos4 Medium Pen Tablet
Wacom Intuos4 Medium Pen Tablet
With a new design and features inspired by members of the professional creative community, Intuos4 redefines the pen tablet experience. Featuring Wacom¿s new pen tip sensor technology and 2,048 levels of pen pressure sensitivity, the Intuos4 pen captures the most subtle nuances of pressure, allowing you to dynamically adjust exposure, brush size, opacity and more. User-defined ExpressKeys activate frequently used shortcuts and modifiers, while the accompanying, illuminated ExpressKey displays on the medium, large and extra large models, provide a constant reminder of each key¿s function. The finger-sensitive Touch Ring quickly controls up to 4 different functions such as canvas rotation, zoom, scroll, brush size and more
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Loved it
My daughter the graphic artist (wannabe) is squealing with delight over this thing. It’s pricey, but it’s quite cool.
4 Stars Nice little tablet for the Price
I’ve used the large on screen and about four other tablets and use this for my home use. Overall, it is a nifty little tablet for someone who is not using it professionally. If a professional, I’d opt for the larger tablets or monitor displays.
4 Stars Large size a plus
First of all, I’m not a professional graphic artist and don’t have a legitimate need for a computer tablet. This was more of a fun thing to have at home, and my teenage son enjoys drawing a great deal so we’ve gotten plenty of use from this tablet over the last 9 months.
The different levels of pressure sensitivity is pretty amazing - very much like actually drawing on paper. The softer you press the lighter and thinner the line is on the screen, and conversely the heavier you press the darker and bigger the line is. The scroll wheel is nice and allows you to change pen sizes quickly and easily, and a button on the pen changes between pen or brush types. The back end of the pen can even be used as an eraser making it very much like drawing for us “old school” types. The customizable ExpresKeys are handy and can be configured for left or right-handed persons, although it would have been nice if they had been differently sized or otherwise differentiated by touch in some way. The pen holder is much nicer than the one that comes with the smaller Bamboo tablet. The writing-to-text conversion feature was interesting and the kids had fun with it, but unnecessary in my opinion. The only real negatives we identified were that the mouse must be used on the tablet surface to work, which was a little awkward sometimes when you’re trying to draw. Also, we were unable to get the PhotoShop canvas rotation feature to work (with the scroll wheel). We are not such heavy users of it that we had any trouble with the pen nibs wearing out in the last 9 months, unlike some who use it much more.
We also have the small Wacom Bamboo Fun Tablet and the larger size of the medium Intuos4 is definitely a plus. But the small one was certainly adequate for our non-professional needs, so if you’re just looking for a computer tablet for general use and price is an issue the smaller one will do. But if cost isn’t an issue, the bigger tablet surface is awfully nice to have.
4 Stars Wacom Intous4
New features such as the Touch Ring & Radial Menu make navigation easy.
Nice design as well.
My only complaint is they made the surface more rough which wears down my pen nibs way too fast.
If I could have the touch ring & radial menu with the Intous3 surface I would be truly happy.
5 Stars A must for photoshop user
This device is a must for photoshop users. Allows for more precise selections when masking as opposed to using a mouse. Short cut keys and wheel eliminates the need to search for these keys on your keyboard and makes scrolling and rotating your work effortless. There are two positions for the power cord which determines left or righthandedness. The pressure sensitivity of the pen is too sweet. Received free copies of Corel painter sketch pad and photoshop elements 7, for which I upgraded to CS4 for 50% discount. Additional brushes and filters from Color Efex pro. It actually paid for itself with the software freebies. These freebies may be for a limited time. I am in the process of going completely paperless in my office so I plan to purchase the smaller version to capture signatures of patients and to sign emails on the fly.
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