[Dabhand16]

New: Wide Screen Design Tablet TB-7300

Key features

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Big, high quality wide screen (30,5 x 19,5 cm) tablet with 2 wheel pads for picture editing and other graphic applications
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Dual wheel pads located at the top corners providing easy scroll, zoom and volume control
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Ergonomic wireless 2 button pen with 1024 step pressure sensitivity and 60° tilt sensitivity
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32 extra direct accessible programmable buttons
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Supports Windows Vista Tablet edition functions, such as converting handwriting into digital text
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Designed for both left and right hand users
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Software included for drawing, editing pictures and adding handwritings and drawings to MS Word, MS Excel or Wordpad
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Suitable for both wide screens and standard monitors

(A quick search found this tablet priced at around £80 - £90.)

Trust

[joanita]

can someone tell me the resolution of this particular tablet pls cant find that information anywhere.
thx for your time

[P-E]

I think the Tablet Resolution is - 4000lpi. I'm sure Graham will confirm.

[Dabhand16]

Welcome to Pixalo Joanita

I can't confirm that. I'm not sure what Joanita is getting at here. The sensitivity of the tablet - that is the ratio between the movement of the hand against the movement of the cursor on the screen changes along with the selected working area, but I don't know if this is done by the sofware changing the working lines per inch or some other method.

There might be some confusion in the terminology when these devices are called graphics tablets and widescreen, when they don't actually display graphics.

I think that one maker has developed one that does, so you can draw directly on an image, but they are massively expensive and not widely available.

[AQ]

Re the Cintiq range of tablets that you can draw on . See

Wacom Europe GmbH - Products - Cintiq - Overview

The smaller one is about £1,000 heaven knows what the larger one is going to be.

[silkstone]

The reviews I've read of previous Trust tablets have not been brilliant. The Wacom ones are generally of better quality, although more expensive.

I have a Wacom Volito tablet (now discontinued) which I rarely use. Some people find graphics tablets indispensable, but I never really got on with it and found the mouse easier for most things. I'd suggest borrowing one if possible before buying, to see which camp you fall into!

[orangepeel]

I was in the hate camp - vociferously so! For general PS work I still am. However for brushing, which I use extensively when masking out layers, it's unbeatable.
I've got very cheap and nasty A5 tablet I acquired from my work. Musta cost 'em all of £25 and it's utterly crap. But for brush work, it's way WAY better than a mouse for doing delicate blending of layers. As the pen is pressure sensitive, it gives an extra dimension of control simply not present on a mouse.