Mike Zwingli
New Member
Hi, everyone.
I want to thank everyone for the suggestions that you offered regarding my recent foray into graphic design to be found in the Adobe Forum. You have been more than helpful, and, with that help and a certain "happy accident" at the tail end of it, I came away with a design which is better that I could have anticipated my being able to produce!
I have been ruminating on this question recently, and have been prompted to ask it at this time by Rtphotography's recent thread inquiring about graphics tablets, as a type of adjunct to it. What I would like to know, which was not specified in that thread, is: What graphics or computer tablets would be best for "syncing" with Adobe Illustrator and could display a shape from an Illustrator document on the tablet screen, which shape could then be traced over using a stylus pen and captured within a new layer of the Illustrator document? The Wacom Intuos line does not seem to offer a display screen (which might or might not be the origin of the name of the line: "Intuos": requiring intuition???), and so no such tracing is possible with them, as far as I know. The XP Pen graphics tablets do seem to all have a display screen. Would any model thereof fulfill what I am looking for? All of the models within Wacom's Cintiq line do seem to have a display screen, and I believe is capable of fulfilling the other criteria heretofore listed, but the models in this line are very pricey for someone who is not a professional graphic artist, and, since this is just a graphics tablet that we are talking about which has no other computer capabilities, will be of very limited use to such a non-professional. This naturally leads me to ask if my criteria might be fulfilled by a computer tablet such as the MS Surface or the Apple Ipad. I believe that the answer to that is yes, but I am unaware which such computer tablets might be the best for such a usage, which have the best pressure sensitive screens, and which come with styluses or what types of stylus can be used with each tablet. For instance: do the Surface and the Ipad come equipped with pen styluses, or must those be bought separately? Will a Google Pixlebook, or any similar device be capable as I have outlined above? Also, I am of the belief that a computer tablet will lack the type of "dynamic friction" that I believe are to be found on the writing surfaces of a graphics tablet. Might this be remedied by securing a piece of tracing paper over the tablet screen while using the stylus to perform such a trace?
Any suggestions that you all can give me regarding the above will be very much appreciated.
Thanks, Mike.
I want to thank everyone for the suggestions that you offered regarding my recent foray into graphic design to be found in the Adobe Forum. You have been more than helpful, and, with that help and a certain "happy accident" at the tail end of it, I came away with a design which is better that I could have anticipated my being able to produce!
I have been ruminating on this question recently, and have been prompted to ask it at this time by Rtphotography's recent thread inquiring about graphics tablets, as a type of adjunct to it. What I would like to know, which was not specified in that thread, is: What graphics or computer tablets would be best for "syncing" with Adobe Illustrator and could display a shape from an Illustrator document on the tablet screen, which shape could then be traced over using a stylus pen and captured within a new layer of the Illustrator document? The Wacom Intuos line does not seem to offer a display screen (which might or might not be the origin of the name of the line: "Intuos": requiring intuition???), and so no such tracing is possible with them, as far as I know. The XP Pen graphics tablets do seem to all have a display screen. Would any model thereof fulfill what I am looking for? All of the models within Wacom's Cintiq line do seem to have a display screen, and I believe is capable of fulfilling the other criteria heretofore listed, but the models in this line are very pricey for someone who is not a professional graphic artist, and, since this is just a graphics tablet that we are talking about which has no other computer capabilities, will be of very limited use to such a non-professional. This naturally leads me to ask if my criteria might be fulfilled by a computer tablet such as the MS Surface or the Apple Ipad. I believe that the answer to that is yes, but I am unaware which such computer tablets might be the best for such a usage, which have the best pressure sensitive screens, and which come with styluses or what types of stylus can be used with each tablet. For instance: do the Surface and the Ipad come equipped with pen styluses, or must those be bought separately? Will a Google Pixlebook, or any similar device be capable as I have outlined above? Also, I am of the belief that a computer tablet will lack the type of "dynamic friction" that I believe are to be found on the writing surfaces of a graphics tablet. Might this be remedied by securing a piece of tracing paper over the tablet screen while using the stylus to perform such a trace?
Any suggestions that you all can give me regarding the above will be very much appreciated.
Thanks, Mike.