Photoshop Ninja
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Wacom tablets – an essential tool for any ninja!
Get pro with your Photoshop work with a Wacom tablet – the best investment you will make!
If you are serious about Photoshop you really should invest in a Wacom tablet – they are not just the realm of illustrators!If you have never wondered how you control most of the brush dynamics…it’s with a tablet! A great example is creating a ‘whoosh’ of random stars – have it set up so pressure=size (and a bit of randomness thrown in!), and it looks fantastic! Touching up images becomes a-lot faster too as you do less mousing around. I find it very good for touching up layer masks and dodging/burning images.
I have to admit I only personally have an A5 one, which sounds fairly small – but you would be suprised how useable it is. I’ve played around on an A3 one, but nothing compares to a recently trialed piece of hardware – the amazing Wacom Cintiq! This is such a brilliant piece of kit – an LCD screen that is also a pressure sensitive, so you can draw right on it with the special pen!
Find out more about the Wacom Cintiq
May be a while before I could justify the cost of that, and there are lots of other things I would prefer to invest in first…mmm…sata raid array!?!
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Written by Jonny Allbut - freelance graphic designer
Last modified: 16 March, 2009 (13:28) | First published: 3 June, 2005
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Comment by André Olwage
June 2, 2008 @ 2:28 pm
When airbrushing in Photoshop CS3 the programme freezes up. I am running a MacPro 2X2.8GHz Quad-core Intel Xeon + 6Gb RAM with the latest System upgrade10.5.2.
Any suggestions will be appreciated.
Thank you