I know nothing of these drawing programs. How exactly do you draw with a computer? Having trouble imagining it with a laptop. Please advise.
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There are many software programs that allow you to paint or draw on a computer. In these programs you first create a surface to work on. This usually consists of a blank white area. To draw or paint you would then click on a tool option such as a brush or pencil, select a color, and then click and drag your the cursor over the top of the canvas. You can draw with a mouse--but it is awkward for many reasons. Most people buy a digital tablet which comes with a pen (stylus) that controls the cursor on their computer. With a stylus you have many more options on how the strokes are made and it is much easier to draw with because you hold the stylus like you would a regular pen. Some people, like myself, have a pressure sensitive laptop that comes with a stylus. This enables me to use the stylus directly on the monitor of my laptop. I can adjust settings so that if I push harder on the stylus my brush stroke gets darker, or wider, or both. That is something you cannot do with a mouse. To change the line thickness with a mouse you have to go to the brush size and change it. Digital painting is a very big area right now. It is amazing what some people can create. I hope this helps.
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Hi Grayrunner! Think of this device as a mouse, and you will better understand it. If you need to do drawing, I recommend a tablet designed just for that. This device is OUTSTANDING for operating Google Earth, as compared to a mouse or even arrow keys. I find that I can operate this instrument without looking at it, and maneuver easily and smoothly. Hope this helps! (th)
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Heather - I just have this ordered myself and although I've never used it I have drawing friends who swear by it. When Amazon had it at 50% I had to jump at it. It was supposed to be here yesterday so hopefully today but I can post my opinion after I've tried it. I can ay all my art friends love it and we all work professionally. I do illustrations and comic books myself. Bt if I were in your shoes I'd spend the 40.00 for it because I've worked with lot of art programs and for 40.00 for something as powerful as this is supposed o be you just can't go wrong. So I'd take the leap.
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The companion comes with infinite canvas and manga canvas and stuff like that and you can use programs like Sketchbook pro and flipbook and photoshop touch, but to use your other Adobe programs, you would need to connect it to a computer. I like to use it for basic planning and sketching to then move to my computer and work with in Adobe programs, or do full, smaller sized drawings in Sketchbook Pro.
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If you prefer drawing directly on the screen, you may choose the Huion GT-190; If you prefer a smaller device which is easy to carry around, you may choose the Huion H610 Pro. As for software, there are free drawing programs out there, such as MyPaint, Krita, Fire Alpaca and so on. If you would like to buy a drawing program, we recommend Adobe Suites. Hope this helps.
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No it doesn't its just the program.....so you'd have to buy a tablet...I recommend a wacom tablet.
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What you do on the tablet shows up on your computer monitor. They do make graphic art tablets that have displays right on them, but they can be preeetty expensive. Coordinating yourself to work with drawing on the tablet while looking at the monitor is kind of tough at first, but just work with it regularly for a month or two and it will become second nature.
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I use the Boogie Board Rip and don't think it can be used as an alternative input for a PC. You can capture sketches and drawings, but not in "real time"...the Wacom gives you an immediate pen-based input on your PC or Mac.
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you can use mouse or pen to navigate windows or any cad or paint program, I use jfdraw and vectorengineer it takes a little time to get the hang of it like touch pen to pad is like a left click and going to the corner of the pad to move the mouse to a corner trips me up a little ect...
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maybe I didn't quite got your question but, this pen saves what you write or draw in vectors so that you can open with Illustrator o Photoshop, they might not be exactly as detailed as your drawing, it is a bit tricky to use but it does help a lot, I make my sketches and then I can move them in the computer and it is so much easier than scan them.
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this is a great drawing pad only. it's does not have a screen, everything is displayed in your screen. you can either ether it with the USB cord or use the wireless dongle that comes with it. once you get used to looking at the screen you will really like how it works. I bought my daughter one for Mac air and she's uses it all the time. I wish I could display some of her work with the tablet. we had problems with apples new Yosemite OS and the tech support had their software guys rewrite new drivers within a couple of days. this is good starting tool for tragic designers who do not want to save money. this is a great drawing pad only. it's does not have a screen, everything is displayed in your screen. you can either ether it with the USB cord or use the wireless dongle that comes with it. once you get used to looking at the screen you will really like how it works. I bought my daughter one for Mac air and she's uses it all the time. I wish I could display some of her work with the tablet. we had problems with apples new Yosemite OS and the tech support had their software guys rewrite new drivers within a couple of days. this is good starting tool for tragic designers who do not want to... » Read More this is a great drawing pad only. it's does not have a screen, everything is displayed in your screen. you can either ether it with the USB cord or use the wireless dongle that comes with it. once you get used to looking at the screen you will really like how it works. I bought my daughter one for Mac air and she's uses it all the time. I wish I could display some of her work with the tablet. we had problems with apples new Yosemite OS and the tech support had their software guys rewrite new drivers within a couple of days. this is good starting tool for tragic designers who do not want to save money. « Show Less
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For the record, GIMP seems to just have this problem in general. I have an older Wacom and I couldn't get it to work with GIMP no matter what I tried. You might want to try Krita; it's another free graphics program that seems to be geared more towards artists and doesn't have the tablet issues that GIMP does.
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This really doesn't compare.. it's way better! My daugther can actual draw "real pictures" on this thing that look like she used a marker\pen. We often take pictures of the images she makes because the Tomy Megasketcher workes so well. If your looking for something that produces realistic images and is fairly responsive, this is your ticket! Other sketchers look like 8-bit old computer images compared to this.
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You have to use a computer a with monitor. I purchased digital art software at around $40 also, but it _might_ work with pre-installed apps on a computer like Windows Paint.
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It works much like a pen, however you need software that allows you to draw/sketch for it to do so.
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It will definitely project on the computer in real time, meaning what you draw on the tablet will appear on the computer at the same time, but all you see on the tablet is you holding a pen scribbling on a black pad. The one where you can see your drawing on the computer AND the tablet AT THE SAME TIME, is the Wacom Cintiq (sorry for the inappropriate CAPS LOCK, it's just for emphasizing)
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Hi Joshua. This is a Touchscreen Drawing 'tablet' and needs a laptop or a desktop to work. It's basically just a big HD Touchscreen TV that lets you draw right on to it. I love it. B.M.Mahon