Okay, So I’m in the market to buy an illustrator program. I’ve been looking at Adobe’s website, but I have a few questions.
At my old college (GMU), we had this drawing program on some of our computers in the video lab. DA that I am, I didn’t bother to write them down.
Anywho, I’m looking for a drawing program where I can draw free style. The program at Mason looks like a scanner, with a Pen. You use a pen to draw on the scanner-looking device.
Anyone have any idea as to what type of device this might be?
Also, and this might be IMHO, any advice on cheap, but great, illustrating devices?
I just picked up a Wacom Graphire2 tablet to help with my comics and graphics. I’m new to tablets myself, but it’s promising to be really handy already. It even comes with a batteryless, ball-less and cordless mouse with a scroll-wheel you can use in place of your regular mouse.
Got it at CompUSA the day after Thanksgiving when it was an utter madhouse, but I got it on sale for $79.99 with a mail-in $20 rebate. The sale, I believe, is good through Saturday.
The “pen” is pressure sensitive, the tip not only works like a “left click” to grab and drag, but varying the pressure will vary the line widths for various tools, and other fun stuff. You can even flip the pen over and the other end automatically becomes an “eraser” (or other tool option.) Wacom, by everything I’ve been told, is the name in tablets.
It comes with a copy of Adobe Photoshop Elements, which has some wild features I don’t have in my previous copy of JASC Paintshop Pro (though Paintshop has some features Elements doesn’t, like the ability to right-click for a “background” color.)
I’ve been looking into tablet-specific programs as well, but, as I said, I just got the thing.
