Tablet Tips?

[MattCoyote† 0]

I received a Wacom Pen & Touch Bamboo for my birthday and I am still figuring out how to use it. Does anyone have any tips?

[Apollo† 0]

I received a Wacom Pen & Touch Bamboo for my birthday and I am still figuring out how to use it. Does anyone have any tips?

 

Not sure what type I have (just because I'm dumb), but I also have some type of Bamboo. The best thing I could tell you to do is just open a drawing program MS Paint, or I use GIMP, and just start to draw and mess around. That's all I did. Soon you will get a feel for it, then it becomes just like drawing on paper.

[Carson Coyote† 0]

When I first got my tablet, I messed around with the handwriting recognition stuff in Windows 7. Writing all of the things on there helped me to get used to using a tablet.

[MattCoyote† 0]

Thanks guys Ill try that.I don't have windows seven so I cant do the handwriting recognition though.

[Fahn† 0]

Download GIMP.

 

It has a lot of features that only work if you have a tablet, so it's a good way to get used to how it works.

 

If you have any questions PM me.

[Guest Wolfin]

No one mentioned paint.net yet? o.o

 

http://getpaint.net

 

SAI paint tool is probably the best for tablets I've used tho, but, sadly isn't free :

https://www.systemax.jp/en/sai/ / http://sai.detstwo.com/sai/

[HuskyDog† 0]

My Wacom Bamboo Pen tablet came with Corel Painter Essentials 4. It's a really useful program and is how I got used to drawing with a tablet. I would recommend trying that out, if yours came with it as well.

[riddle kat† 0]

ok here's the thing: it's best you mess around with all the main tools we reccomnd first and pick which one works the best! Or if your's came with a product use it just like husky said

[MattCoyote† 0]

I just downloaded GIMP, It seems really interesting. Instead of Corel Painter my tablet came with Photoshop Elements. I already have something called CoreFx It's pretty basic so GIMP seems like its gonna be helpful.