Wacom Intous Small Creative tablet

[BananaRepublic]

My friend asked me about this, the Wacom Intous Small Creative tablet, link to the offer below. My question A, Do you have experience with one of these. B, Can it be used for photoshop. C, Not knowing anything about these myself at €60 (Euro) (best buy have them for $69.99, i think it the same) seems to a bit cheap to me to be any good.

FYI Im in Ireland hence the Euro currency. I also have my doubts it works with PS

https://www.littlewoodsireland.ie/wacom-intuos-small-creative-tablet-black/1600260123.prd

 

[smoke665]

Wacom has been around for awhile, but I ended up with an XP-pen Black Friday | XP-Pen Official Store primarily for price and larger work surface. It's taken a little getting used to but once I did it's great.

 

[tirediron]

Wacom tablets are outstanding, BUT... IMO, the small is a bit too small to make Photoshop use comfortable. I started out with a small years ago when they first hit the market, and very quickly upgraded to a much larger version.

 

[weepete]

Yeah, I've got a bamboo one. I actually bought it years ago to try some digital painting. I find the small a bit too small and the movement is a bit wierd because my hand movements need to be smaller than shown on screen. I've seen a few people use them and they can be useful for drawing compicated masks, but I don't really use mine. Rotation can mess me up to so if it's not exactly oriented with my screen I have difficulty. Ultimatley I found it no more useful than a mouse. I think if you are going to get one don't bother with the small and go a4 or a3 size.

Saying that I find using a stylus on my tablet a lot better because I'm drawing 1:1 on the image. I can actually do some pretty compicated masks in lightroom pretty quickly on my tablet (if the hardware can keep up). The ultimate for me would be the Microsoft Surface screen, large, high res and I could work directly on the image but $$$. Can't wait for that tech to filter through though.

 

[smoke665]

The active area on the XP-Pen is 10"x 6", for me that's about the right size. Any larger, there would be to much arm movement, any smaller it would feel cramped. I don't really have the real estate on my desk to put the tablet in front of me so I use it to the side. I found learning to use it was much like learning to type, you can't look at the keyboard. Having it to the side works better for me, because I'm focusing on the screen with the tablet out of view.

 

[Original katomi]

I have the bamboo and the larger version.
I have found both very good,
I use mine with
Win 7
PSE9
Lightroom 3.ish and 5ish

 

[JBPhotog]

I use a Wacom Pro 5 Touch (?) Medium and it was an upgrade from a Wacom Large Graphite many moons ago. I think the medium is the sweet spot but bear in mind, you can map out the area you want as the editing space so a medium has the ability to be a small if you choose.