Got Tablet?

As a Photoshop instructor and author, I need to be skilled at using both Mac and Windows machines. And like most of my Photoshop instructor friends, I use a stylus and a tablet for maximum brush control. For my Mac, I use a Mac Book Pro, and I tote my WACOM table everywhere I go. For my Windows machine, I use the Lenovo W700 Think Pad. What's especially cool about this machine is that is has a built-in tablet and stylus. How cool is that.

What? You say you'd like a table in a Mac. Well check out Axiotron to see a tablet not in a Mac but on a Mac :-)

If you have never used a stylus and tablet, I suggest you check out one - maybe at Photoshop World which is coming up in Boston in March. Once you use a stylus (which offers control like pressure sensitivity), I think you'll never go back to clicking with a mouse.

You can check out some of my tablet/stylus retouching examples in my O/Reilly book, Face to Face.

Take care,
Rick