Should i get intuos5

How should I count it? I mean line per inch. The working area is 5. Thats far greather than , so from this view, it would be enough? Im just guessing here, please help me :. The review is marvelous, thanks a bunch! Looking forward for your reply, have a nice day!

Hi, Daisy. Both models would have sufficient, but not great, resolution for your current display, but the newer model would feel more precise. If you plan to do more freehand work, like simulating natural media, the higher resolution tablet would have a clear advantage.

The newer model has also more levels of pressure sensitivity and touch input, which comes in handy for general computer usage and web surfing. Why don't you try to buy an used or refurbished model? You can also try eBay.

Cheers, Fabio. Oh, one more thing! If the lpi would not be enough to fit fine on my 22" x screen, how could I with which software, or settings make the tablet work only a shrinked surface, not the whole screen, so the resolution would fit? I have to mention that your review is just awesome, It helped a lot, and the comments were very useful too! Thanks for your support Fabio! Have a great day! The bundled tablet driver allows you to map the tablet surface to just a portion of the screen, effectively increasing the resolution vs.

This setting is under the mapping tab of the Wacom control panel. Another way to make better use of the tablet resolution is to zoom in your artwork and work on smaller pieces at a time.

Dear Fabio, Thank you VERY much for your reply, I am really reassured by your answer, I am heading for the lower resolution one, cos of the lack of coins. But I dont think many people will face this problem tho. Again: Thanks a bunch, and have a great day Fabio!!! Hello, I just want to ask for an advice in buying my first tablet.

I have a Dell 24" lcd and I am torn between Wacom Bamboo Connect or Create, so is it better to get the bigger one or the small one will do just fine? Thank you so much. And sorry for my wrong grammar since English is not my first language. Hi, Beth. The larger model, Bamboo Create, is a much better choice for illustration use, specially on a 24" LCD.

I'd avoid the smaller models for any user other than general computer usage. Buy the Create. I'm sure you'll like it a lot. Like many others I'm torn between the Bamboo Create and Intuos 4 medium. The major difference between the two thats got me flipflopping is the "tilt" feature. The Create looks much more appealing to me since it has "touch" capabilities and better price. I don't mind the PL or not having quick keys. Does tilt allow you to make strokes that would not be possible without the feature or does it just make them feel more natural?

Chris, the tilt sensitivity helps to make brush strokes more natural when you're trying to simulate natural media in bitmap programs, like Photoshop and Corel Painter. It's not a mandatory feature, since you can map all brush dynamics, including stroke shape, to the pen pressure, achieving very realistic results. I'm sure you won't be missing much by buying the Create. Hi Fabio! I am a professional photographer who uses the liquify tool, dodging and burning ie: free-hand coloring , frequent zooming in and out, and resizing of my paint brush often.

I also use cloning and healing which needs an "option-click" that demands I go back to my keyboard, and my apple magic track pad can't do that. Or can it??? I need enough programmable buttons to allow me to "option-click" to "define the area" for cloning and healing, a button for resizing my paint brushes, and a button to automatically open my liquify tool.

The zooming can be handled by the trackpad-like qualities I assume. Now, I read somewhere that the pen for the Create has not only the eraser, but a programmable button on it as well. I would be pleased with a programmable button as I could just click it and have it function as my eraser when needed. I use my 15" MacBook Pro, and a 24" display to edit.

I need to be able to sit on the couch a distance from my computer and hold the tablet comfortably in my lap while editing for my back and wrist problems. Would the bigger size of the Create help make it more steady on my lap? Thank you for writing this article. It has really helped me to understand these tablets far more than any other article I have found thus far. I will be directing fellow Photographers and Graphic Artists to this site in the future!! Thanks, Becky. It essentially removes the ability to work as a drawing tablet for many people, and you don't get a second programmable button on the pen that you can swap for the eraser function either.

Hi, Becky. The Create is the only Bamboo model that has an eraser on the back of the pen. In my opinion, the larger size alone is worth the price difference. The Connect and Capture models are too small for use with a 24" screen and inadequate if you want to extend your laptop's desktop to both the internal 15" screen and the external LCD. Hello, Needless to say, you're review of Intuos4 vs Create is the most objective, in depth and up to date out there.

Thank you for taking the effort to put this together. I'd be grateful if you could elaborate the difference with respect to the bundled software and its bearing on the price.

There just isn't enough information about what version of Photoshop is included in each of teh products. Wacom seems to have taken a less than helpful, ethical even approach of just putting the name of the software e. Adobe Photoshop Elements and no version number. Both on the product boxes that I checked at Best Buy and on their website.

Not to mention they've identified security risks with 8 and stopped supporting it. So its a significant factor when considering the purchase, especially for someone looking to get all the tools and apps in one go and get cracking out of the box.

Immediately after billing I opened the package to see the version of software and voila, it has Adobe PE9 can't expect 10 as its Adobe exclusive as yet. Tonnes of stuff to do with it. Tried things out till late early AM. It is good and feels "sufficient". And then the devil of doubt stepped in. Just to find better pen usage practices when I started researching all products, Intuos4 Small suddenly seems like a better choice. It can manage free hand art and Vector aided design equally well as the reviews suggest, owing to the higher pressure levels and tilt recognition.

Intuos4 Small costs the same as Create. The active area is lesser but it would suit my wrist oriented style I theorized. So since this morning I've been frantically trying to find out what the software bundle deal is. The Wacom website says 9. Went to the store again and was about to pick up the Intous4 when I just double checked with the cashier and it turns out it had 6.

And here's a cautionary note for Intous4 Small buyers. There are two prices out there - and I'm not sure when the switch happened. But the model seems to have PE 6, which can leave you with heartburn when compared to PE 9. So if there's anybody out there who has recently bought the I4 Small model please let us know what's the deal you got. May you live in interesting lines. Hi Everyone that I read about is into drawing and illustrating.

I want to begin by using a tablet for writing and having it convert to word. I hate typing and do alot of work that requires using paper sources and have to always look back and forth to type. Feel like I will write faster than I type. Also do alot of powerpoints. But I would like the options that would allow for the drawing etc. Hi, Diane. I've never used my tablet for handwriting recognition, but this is one of the uses mentioned on the Wacom site and I know lots of people use the pen tablets primarily for this task.

Since the pen won't be your main pointing device, you don't need a very large or high resolution tablet. I''d suggest you to buy a Bamboo Capture model, which is the cheapest one that has touch input in addition to the pen. Keep us posted on your experiences and feel free to share them here on the site. I'm sure other users have the same question.

Thank you for very comprehensive overview! I am a graphic design student and I am looking for a tablet for digital painting as well as photoediting etc. I am little bit confused, which one to buy. First, is it bad idea to buy a used one? I mean of course it depends how it has been stored, but maybe its not so big difference between them?

Both of them has pressure levels and similar price. What would you recommend? Do you now if any of them is equivalent with Bamboo Create? Or which one of them is worth to buy? Thank you so much in advance! You may find a killer deal on the discontinued model, so look around. Those Wacom tablets do not wear fast and last for many years, so you can find an used one in good shape.

The only parts that show wear are the pen nib, which is designed to be user replaceable look for new nibs at the Wacom website and the rubber around the pen, that gets nasty after some years. You can always buy a new pen and it's not that expensive, but this may offset the difference between an used and a brand new model. I have one good argument for buying the Bamboo Create, though. It has multi touch support and this is very handy for scrolling web pages and using gestures in Mac OS X Lion and the upcoming Windows 8.

I'm sure the next Intuos5 line will have this feature, too. Word of warning to any who are thinking of buying the Inkling. It was a teriible product and i could not get it to work properly. Don't waster your time! Hi, thanks for this review. I'm a teacher exploring the possibility of using the Bamboo tablet as an alternative to the chalkboard and have found using a borrowed one CTL K and SmoothDraw3 that even at relatively slow writing speeds it produces poor results when I have to lift the pen to cross an A or a T.

When watching screencasts of Sal Khan or others who are proficient on the tablet, this just doesn't seem to be an issue. They are writing quickly and clearly getting good results even though they are lifting the pen and putting it down quickly. Can you tell me why this might be happening? I'm working on a good DELL with System 7, so I don't think it's a processing issue on the computer hardware side of things.

Randy, This might be a shot in the dark, but have you tried the latest drivers downloaded directly from the Wacom website? Another suggestion is to make sure the tablet is connected directly to the computer USB port, without any hub or USB extension, since this might impact the USB transfer rate. Thanks for taking the time to reply back to everyone!

I found your comments useful I'm pretty much a beginner to tablets but at my previous company that I worked with we were given tablets and I picked it up pretty fast with them.

It really was a small tablet, when I was drawing in Illustrator I noticed I kept going off the edges of the tablet I'm not sure what size monitors we had, they weren't huge I was able to adapt to it, however I hated how I would have to pick up my pen when I wanted to continue drawing a smooth stroke.

And I noticed I kept wanting to erase with the back of my pen! I used to do it the traditional way The laptop I have at home though is a Macbook Pro 15" I've never hooked up a tablet to it.

Would be it difficult to use with it? I'm not sure what size I'd need or if a small Bamboo would be sufficient. I'm pretty sure I'd like a bigger size though, but I'm on a budget.

Are there any old models like the Create?! I was also wondering if pens are interchangeable or not I'd just love that pen with an eraser!!! Although I suppose I could get by without one. It takes a long time to erase freehand strokes in Illustrator though Also can you explain the above chart, maybe this is a stupid question And thanks for the suggestions I see that you answered it previously. Alison, The tablet size is dependent on the monitor size and also on the personal preferences of each user, as you have experienced.

Some people draw with broader strokes and adapt much better to the larger tablets. The smaller tablets have less working area. When this area is mapped to a large display, each point on the tablet surface corresponds to a big area on the display. If the actual resolution is not enough, the cursor feels too fast, jumpy and less precise.

The orange bars on the tablet size vs. A Wacom Bamboo Create would work fine with your laptop. Just dowload the latest drivers from wacom. It's really that easy and there's little fo configure. If you'd like to draw in bitmap program, simulating natural media, like Photoshop or Painter, then you'd have various configurations in the programs themselves to map the pen dynamics pressure, tilt, etc to the various brush variables, like size, opacity, scattering, etc.

By the way, the Create has an eraser on the pen. Handy, for sure! If you want a bigger model, your only option is the Intuos line. Wacom has just released a new model, called Intuos5. Maybe you can get the outgoing model - the Intuos4 - for a better price. A large Intuos4 would be great for you.

Hope you manage to find one for a good price! Thank you for your comment, Fabio. Thanks for the reply! I think I'm looking at a Bamboo one right now maybe an older model since I'm on a budget but I really want a tablet. Intuos are so out of my price range right now Would an Intuos2 work on my macbook? Also since I'll be working primarily on a 15" screen unless I go buy a bigger monitor would a big tablet really matter besides personal preference?

I think a medium sized tablet might be okay for me but I wouldn't go small. Would you consider 6 x 4 to be a small size? Thanks for your help! I think this is a great price for a very competent medium sized tablet.

The size is plenty for your 15" MacBook Pro and this is the same tablet you used at your previous job. The Intuos2 is too old and I'd avoid it. The CTH 13" overall product is actually a lot bigger than the one I used at work 9" , so I'll most likely go with this one if it's more bang for the buck. Mary, the Wacom Cintiq line incorporates the pressure sensitive tablet directly the the display, allowing you to sketch on the screen surface. And Mary it costs you thousands of dollars.

Plz reply! Thanks for your detail information! I consider to buy a wacom table for teaching such Khan's style but I wonder, small size is comfortable for writing or not? Hello, Thanh. I think a small model would be suited for this use. You'll probably be writing only small words and notes, so the larger surface won't make much of a difference. The smaller ones are also more portable and easy to carry around.

I'd choose the Bamboo Capture model, which is the least expensive that has multi touch support. Thank you for your comment. Thanks for this review! Is very helpful but i still have a quesion. Last night i spent hours Doing something in illustrator using a mouse and after a while my hand was hurting me so bad! So i have decided to buy a tablet.

I read your review And i really liked the intous5. However i am on a budget about usd. I found too small the small intous5. But i really dont know whats the best for me.. Do u think That there is an older intous model better that the bamboo Create? In this case I'd recommend you to buy the Bamboo Create. It's a very capable pen tablet and I'm sure it would suit you well. This model has a surface area about the same size as medium Intuos.

For example, the pen nibs wear out, the tablet surface gets scratched and the pen rubber grip gets dirty and more sticky over the time. Replacing those items is possible, but would drive the price closer to a new one. Donna, the Bamboo Create, model CTH, is the only model in the Bamboo line that has a medium sized working area - 8. This means it can be used with higher resolution displays than a small model, like the other Bamboos: Connect, Splash and Capture. It is also much easier to draw or retouch images on a larger area.

This is also the only model in the lineup that has an eraser in the pen. In my opinion, the price difference is well worth it. I've been using my Wacom Graphire 2 for years and love it but it's not going to last forever and I'm weighing my options. The comparison you made between the Intuos and the Bamboo Capture are exactly what I needed. Thank you! Vivian, you won't believe the difference when you get a newer tablet.

I've moved from a Graphire 2 to an Intuos 4, having used a Bamboo Create sporadically during this time. It is great to have more precision and also some of the niceties of the newer models. The Bamboo Create is the natural heir to the Graphire.

You can buy it with confidence and I'm sure you'll love it. I've read the majority of the comments and just when I think someone has asked the question I want answers to, I don't quite get the answers. I'm working with a 17" laptop and using it for digital painting, photoediting. I was looking at the Capture, but you continuously suggest the Create. Besides the lack of eraser and the size difference would I be wasting my time on the Capture?

The Bamboo Capture and Create are very similar, except for the size and lack of eraser on the Capture pen. This may be a shortcoming if you're heavily on digital painting. If you have the budget, in my opinion, the extra size alone makes the Bamboo Create worth the difference, specially for higher resolution displays like yours. On the real world, this means you can have much better cursor precision with the larger active area. This might not be noticed on smaller displays, but anything above x px clearly shows the difference, in my experience.

In any case, I'd rather have a smaller tablet than to work only with a mouse. It is this much better, really. If you're on a really tight budget, buy the Bamboo Create to get the hang of using a tablet and sell it on eBay later, if you feel the need for a larger working surface.

This is a super deal and I think much better value than the smaller model. I just bought a Bamboo Create from Amazon and did not see this post before that, i has not arrived yet.

I wanted to use sketchbook pro 6, corel painter 12 and photoshop mostly for architecture work persentations and other drawing. I can see that I might have problems due to the fact that I'm using a Bamboo create. Will I be needing a new monitor smaller what are the odds? I did not buy an Intuos because I found it very expensive for the type of usage I will give to it. Oscar, you'll be fine. The main factor that dictates the tablet size is resolution, not screen size.

A Bamboo Create can handle a x px resolution screen just fine. I'm sure you'll love your new tablet. Thank you Fabio. I'm still waiting for the tablet that I ordered on Amazon through Electrobrands and Fedex just lost the package They said they will send another unit to me. I had a scroll back through the previous comments but couldn't quite find the question that I have. I am going to buy the INTUOS 5 but I am still unsure about which size to get, I would be using it with a 13" Macbook Pro Early and so from your info graphic above, am I right in assuming that the small size would be the most appropriate?

Or would it be the medium? The medium sized Intuos5 is the most versatile model, even though the small one has plenty of resolution to work well with your screen size. You may want to add a second LCD in the future and the extra area of the medium model may come in handy.

Let me add two more variables to your decision: if you'd like to use it to draw, the small model may be too tight for your brush stroke. On the other hand, since you're using a laptop, it is much easier to carry around than the medium one. Hey Steven, I found the answer for you: Per Douglas Little at Wacom "The EMR electro-magentic resonance board beneath the tablet surface is built to extend beyond the borders of the active area to better communicate the X and Y data.

I hear what sounds like a fantastically written press release sorry , but how does this compare to the Intuos 4 in terms of usability? Does having rubber buttons and a touch feature justify upgrading to the equally expensive 5? The pen and pressure is dead accurate and yes, it feels like writing on a piece of paper with a graphite pencil as well. Resolution and pressure levels are the exact same.

The only difference is the 5 uses touch based gestures which is fine, but when you already have on screen macros using the wheel button, its actually a bit more efficient than taking the pen out of your hand to "draw" something with your fingers as well as using shortcut keys, which most of us use anyways.

The Aesthetics and Build section refers to most of your questions. In short and to carry on from that , the feel and 'performance' while working feels a lot better. Due to the flush finish of the buttons, scroll wheel, easy to touch surface area of the plastic where the express keys are rather than the sticky plastic , the new pen, better surface.

In the end, it improves my efficiency, response time, performance, accuracy. I never realized how much faster my retouching times would improve with these seemingly small upgrade.

However, if you use a slippery plastic sheet rather than have a desire to emulate a working surface similarly to lead and paper, then the surface of course won't be a huge deal to you as well. Should you upgrade? I can't answer that for you, I would say try it out if you get an opportunity to for a while to see what fits your needs. The 4 is a great product and I fell in love with mine when I used it primarily.

They will never go wrong on you either. I, for one, found the review to be helpful. My Intuos5 is on order and I expect it to arrive this week. I'm moving up from the Intuos4 and I'll blog my comparison of both once I've put the Intuos5 through its paces.

I'd also like to know if they made the USB port more robust So far, only 20 hours of wear. However, I am certain the nibs will wear out as usual. The difference is the surface seems to be more resilient compared to the 3 and 4.

Now, without any option to buy new surfaces on their site, it seems like this is only surface you will need, and the rest of your upgrades will be tips as usual. I can only assume at this point based on those points. If any of that changes, I will update the review as well. I had not had that issue with the 4, but the USB insert has more "support" on the sides, so it should not come apart as easily as the 4 did.

If you click on the first impressions link in the article, there's a visual of what the input looks like port view. The fact that there are no replacement surface sheets available in their shop is because the new touch surface has electronics built in, so the tablet will need to be sent back to Wacom when the surface needs to be replaced, for which they only say they will charge "a nominal price". I'd really like to get an Intuos5, but I admit this part is putting me off somewhat.

James, thank you so much for finding this! I will be updating my review this evening in the appropriate sections regarding this part. Since Wacom had no replacement pads, yet all the other accessories went live, I figured the surface may have changed.

And considering the surface now has the guide marks, they look somewhat pricey to change out if it had replaceable pads. Now realizing they are replaceable, I realize there are no pads on the site because they must be sent in. The only sure way to know is to take it apart unfortunately.

It wasn't obvious the Intuos4 had that flaw until someone did and pointed it out to Wacom. Hopefully, they added more support this time though, since it was a pretty well known flaw mentioned on their facebook forums I seem to be having some trouble finding where the "software download key" is. All the registration says is that it's "in the package". And I can't seem to find where that "in the package" is. If anyone can help me find it, thanks in advance!

Home Topics Gear. Aesthetics and Build The aesthetics is one of the most discussed feature about the tablet. Cost and Sizes You can get the tablet in small, medium, or large. Wireless Wires, who needs them?

Focus on the beautiful Touch Ring to see that. What else on the other side of the tablet? Finally, Intuos Pro is a Intuos5 after cosmetic surgery operation. But hey, it is the fashion now. Car, iPhone… Gray is everywhere. At the beginning of Test Expert of Intuos5 , I wrote that this tablet was ugly. Why is the price difference? Same tablet. In fact, the change is only about farm factor with less « soft touch ».

The real change : the active surface kills nibs like an Intuos 4 first generation. I should ask Wacom for confirmation. The name Intuos is now for the previous Bamboo range. The professional tablet is called Intuos « PRO » now. Before : Bamboo range semi pro and Intuos range pro. Septembre : Intuos range semi pro and Intuos Pro range pro.

Bamboo name is reserved for all stylus used on multimedia tablets like iPad or Galaxy. Hello, very informative, thank you. And I did not quite understand which one uses up the pen tips the Pro or the Touch? Thank you again Jens. Not exactly. The sizes were always the same : S, M and L.

Therefore this semi-professional tablet takes the name of the tablet for professionals. You have 4 tablets which are different in the field of specification and size. Advertising is only for Cintiq Companion actually. Small correction to this — « The previous versions of these graphic tablets for professionals INTUOS 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 have not wireless module ». Before using an external USB dongle associated to a wireless module Wacom sold graphic tablets with bluetooth inside.

The first one was Graphire Bluetooth and the second one was the Intuos 4 bluetooth Wireless. Great review. I have a doubt: you mean that the intuos pro is a nib killer? Or is it the intuos5? The new Intuos is not a « nib killer » like the first Intuos4 Wacom edited a second model of Intuos4 with an other surface to avoid to be the « perfect » nib killer tablet. The next tablet, Intuos5, was really better but its surface is scratched immediately.

The new Intuos Pro is between Intuos4 and Intuos5. This story of « nib killer » began with the Inutos4. They wanted to have the same sensation than a real pencil on a real paper.

If possible, the design is even more austere than before. Wacom has replaced the glossy sidebar with its clearly delineated ExpressKeys and Touch Ring and replaced it with a rubberized bezel all around and membrane controls.

Also gone are the context-sensitive LED labels that reminded you how the controls mapped. Instead there's a faint LED light indicating that the tablet's powered on and four crop marks showing the active tablet area. On the right side oriented for a righty are a Mini-USB connector and a couple of covered recesses for the optional wireless dongle and battery. It uses RF, not Bluetooth. Like its predecessor, the tablet works identically whether you're right- or left-handed.