Hi everyone,
I just asked my boss to buy a wacom Intos 4 for work. (I'm a graphic designer, btw)
I've got an old A6 sized tablet now, and I'm wondering if the Intuos 4 medium ( active area: 23.5 x 139.7 mm ,8.8 x 5.5 in) is big enough for work on a 24" monitor?
The medium is roughly the same size as the older intuos 3 A5.
With the smaller A6 version I keep "bumping" into the inactive area on the 23".
Any thoughts and advice is appreciated.
regards,
Mike
I have been using an Intuous III 6"x11" tablet with a 30" wide screen monitor and find it works well. I wondered, when I saw the Intuous IV sizes, why they did away with the extra wide format. On the other hand, it has always been possible to remap the tablet to the monitor, so unless you will be drawing circles and squares, it should not matter.
My previous tablet was a 12"x12" which was great in theory and not so wonderful for me in practice. First of all it was so big that I had to use it extending from my lap, resting at about 45 degrees over the desktop and covering the keyboard which was on a sliding shelf lower than the desktop.
In addition, the arm movements needed were so large that when using a program such as Corel Painter to turn photographs into "paintings" took so many strokes over such a great area of real estate that I sold it and got the 6"x11" tablet as a replacement.