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Understanding the Intuos and Cintiq options

Understanding the Intuos and Cintiq options

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Understanding the Intuos and Cintiq options

While mobile options are a great place to start with Digital Painting, the desktop options can provide a world of expressive freedom. A graphics tablet, like the Wacom Intuos, or a direct interaction device, like the Cintiq, in which you paint directly on the image, offer a superior form factor, for expressively modulating the device in your hand. Let's take a look at the key features of these devices. Both of these devices connect directly to a computer. The stylish shape is consistent with many expressive drawing and painting tools, like pencils and brushes. This enables quick adoption by a traditional mark making user. Of the Six Axis of Motion. Pressure sensitivity is the single most important expressive axis. With the optional art pen, you get the additional axis of barrel rotation providing the total input of the user's hand, wrist, and arm motions. This interprets into maximum expressability. One note when considering a Cintiq, is that direct interaction provides the best…

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