I've been pondering getting one of these for a couple of years for photo retouching, especially portraits. I picked up one on Sunday but didn't install it until today after I finished a shoot. I'd heard they can take a couple of weeks to get used to, I'd seen a demonstration and got to play with one for a few minutes this weekend before deciding to buy.
It took me about 7 images, going through my workflow using it instead of a mouse, the only button I was using with the scroll ring was brush size and that alone really was noticably faster. I might have been well off with the small tablet but I have this and already like it a lot. Editing down a couple hundred shots to ten and then processing them in LR3>CS5>Portrait Pro Studio 10>LR3 and I'd guess already it saved me about a half hour and I found it more enjoyable and precise. The biggest thing to get used to is that you don't scoot images or your mouse across the screen to get where you want to go, your entire screen is represented on the tablet so you just point on the part of the tablet as if you were tapping on the screen in the place you wanted to be. That took me about a half hour so slow down the do, I'm sure old habits will return but I'm liking this a lot. Also I really like the mouse that comes with it. To use it, you simply set the pen aside in it's little stand and put the mouse on the tablet, the rest is as you already know it.
