Intous 5

Hooked up a brand new Intous 5 today and started working with it. So far it feels VERY foreign, so two questions

1) Are some of you using the Intous5 with good success?

2) I really want to use the Intous so any ideas on getting used to it?

I am using it with good result. I haven't set up many buttons yet.
It is recommended to do that later when you see how you do the processing.
But I have the brush size adjustment on the wheel
Bottom quick button have Undo

The most important is to just start using it.
Do a google search for tutorials

It's always like that. First you get used to the disconnect between the surface and the screen, then you start to get a feel for the pressure sensitivity, and then you start to actually use it as naturally as everyone uses a mouse. For a period of time I used only the tablet so extensively, I actually had a hard time going back to a mouse when I had to, it's just so much more natural and easy if you go at it long enough.

Try not to dive into any of the tablet's advanced functions until you have a good feel for it first, you'll just burden yourself, once you can use it with ease you can try to move various functions over to the hotkeys and not have to touch the keyboard at all while editing.

As to using tablets with good success, a lot of professional digital artists and photographers swear by tablets, in fact it's probably a requirement. The heal brush really comes into it's own, and masking becomes ridiculously easy, you'll wonder how you did without it.

As a final word, toss the Wacom mouse into a drawer and forget about it, actually try to avoid using mice in general for a while.

Thanks guys.

Arctic Shooter one of the first things I did was to set up UNDO on a quick button, in fact it was the bottom one!

Kolor Picker, thanks for the advice. I am usually pretty stubborn so I will keep at it! One thing that may be a bit challenging is I spend 8 - 10 hours a day in front of a computer at work so mouse at work, tablet at home. I almost wonder if learning the tablet is similar to an adult trying to learn a new language as compared to a child.

I don't have a Wacom Intuos, but do have a cheap Trust tablet. It isn't as refined as many but dose at least allow pressure sensitivity in PS, although using it on my old system with LR4.1 is just so slow. As far as actually drawing with it, you soon get used to looking at the screen as you draw. I now hate to have to do freehand drawing with anything else.

Alan

I best advice is just to use it as much as you can. I was a fellow mouse user since day one of owning a personal computer. I moved onto a Wacom tablet 7 years ago and have been very pleased using it. I'm a graphic designer and have found that the overall set-up of a Wacom tablet is very easing on your hands. It feels natural once you get the hang of it and you don't get that nasty mouse-hand-grip-carpal tunnel syndrome with it.

I have the 5 and am liking it. I don't use the buttons on the tablet myself.

As far as settings go, I turned the touch functionality off and remapped the pad to just my main screen (I have a dual monitor setup).

doidinho wrote in post #15195677
I have the 5 and am liking it. I don't use the buttons on the tablet myself.

As far as settings go, I turned the touch functionality off and remapped the pad to just my main screen (I have a dual monitor setup).

Same here. I have the tablet for work and I have an older Intuos3 for personal use at home. Doing graphic design with a mouse is not the same anymore.