wacom cintiq

[mikeh]

was wondering if anyone had experience with these pads...what they liked about them or didn't. They seem to be essential to anyone doing digital painting for a living.
mh

[joconnell]

Just to set the cat amongst the pigeons too - http://frenden.com/post/38693256477/yiynovamsp19u

[simmsimaging]

Love them as a workflow tool but they are far from awesome with Windows 8. The touch is useless, literally. I have it turned off 99% of the time. Waste of 1K.

Support from Wacom on the many issues with w8 has been poor.

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[mikeh]

Love them as a workflow tool but they are far from awesome with Windows 8. The touch is useless, literally. I have it turned off 99% of the time. Waste of 1K.

Support from Wacom on the many issues with w8 has been poor.

b

When you say the "touch", I assume you mean this one... http://www.wacom.com/en/products/pen...tiq-22hd-touch
And...what paint program do you use? Corel's or Adobe's?
mh

[simmsimaging]

no, the 24HD touch. I use Photoshop. Everything works fine in Photoshop except for touch. Pretty much every other program has issues with either touch or the pen itself.

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

I run cintiq 21UX from 5 years ago... It is still EPIC. I didnt manage to scratch the screen for 3 years or so... then it given up. I love it use it for a lot of stuff... Great tool massive live and time saver. HOWEVER the colours are a bit off however mine is around 5y old now so maybe the new ones got better LCD... Buy it and love it.

[simmsimaging]

I scratched the crap out of 2 different 21UX models. YOu must have much lighter hands than me. Colour accuracy is not bad, screen resolution/sharpness is not great, but as a workflow tool it is amazing.

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[Neilg]

I scratched the crap out of 2 different 21UX models.

I bet it's all that bling you wear on your wrists.

[simmsimaging]

I bet it's all that bling you wear on your wrists.

lol

It's true. I can't work without my sterling silver skull rings on.

[mikeh]

Just to set the cat amongst the pigeons too - http://frenden.com/post/38693256477/yiynovamsp19u

Jo, Thanks for the link to the alternate. interesting stuff.
mh

[mikeh]

saw this review of the sp19u. Helps to see things in action.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4rGTP4gPZ8

mh

[simmsimaging]

My concern with non-Wacom products was colour fidelity in the screens. I couldn't find one to actually check out anywhere and there was almost no info on that. Has to be reasonably calibrated to be of any use to me at all and those other ones were making me nervous.