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Using a tablet and pen for drawing
I would love to be able to use this method for getting images on my screen, but cannot find a way of using mine in Signlab, it will only work within it’s own programme.
-has anyone any idea how I can do this please?
Thanks in advance…….. 😀
Lorraine
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11 Replies
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Lorraine, see if your tablet is listed in the edit/digitiser setup.
If not the driverssometimes woek genericly. I know I set one up like this a few years ago, didnt get on with it though. For one thing it took up to much space on the desk
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I have been looking to get a graphics tablet but not sure the best one for this and I don’t want to go with the trial and error approach
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the last time I fired up the tablets was about 5 years ago, we had the wacoms, tilt thing. It was okay but computers wasn’t fast enough to keep up with the drawing speeds needed. I might dig them out and plug it in and see where they are, ‘pressure’ and ’tilt’ was one of the things that I thought was important, like in a pencil you tilt to get weaker effects but put pressure on a pen to make a darker point. All this works in the advanced bitmap-canvas programs but not sure if pen pressure can work in Illustrator or Corel.
If you can draw by hand, you should be interested, but if you cant, forget it.
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Checked out the latest WACOM t the sydney sign show.
Corel are doing a real push with them here, bundling them with v12. I’m not sure if v12 has the pressure sensativity, but other corel products do, as that is what they were demo’d on.
Not sure if any dedicated sign progs are tablet compatible to be honest, would be interested to know, but doubt I’d use one in the sign side anyway. Would be a great tool in the design side tho.
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I have a WACOM tablet, I dont really use it though as i prefer to use my Optical mouse. I use Signlab & Corel, but really only find it useful for sketching stuff in Photoshop.
Andy 😎
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If yours can emulate a summasketch, there should be no proablem using it in Signlab as Peter said uder Edit/Digitizer Setup <Summasketch>.
Most tablets can emulate summasketch, but not all.
It also is possible to get many other models to work but it takes modiying
some lines in the Signlab INI file.
What is you exact make and model.
Is it hooked up serial or USB?frank at cadlink
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Similar experience as everybody else – just could not get on with it.
I found it quicker using the mouse – its gathering dust behind my desk!
There must be some people using these successfully.Dave
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did anyone else find that static feeling on their hands? ok it was just me then?! 😕
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It might be worth investing in a trip to the USA to take a David Butler workshop.
http://www.davidbutler.com/wksdetails.html
Love…..Jill -
Jill
Thanks for that link, it was really interesting. I wish I was a wee bit closer…..
I love their logo, it is beautifully done, can just imagine it painted on to a mirror, or glass.
lorraine
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i bought a decent wacom 3 years ago, ill be honest, i haven’t used it much at all… cost about £180 back then and i was sorta disappointed.
i liked the idea of it but sketching was not that easy. i could work it fine, but depending on the way i used it canceled out stuff on screen and it was a pain. i imagined it like paint shop but in vector lines with welding options. but never worked that way.
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