roflmao , having a bit of vexation from our new tablet are we star :P
I'll admidt I was very envious of the price you quoted until I read this , 36 dollars might be paying too much for the devils Tablet :P
Hah! Sounds like you are having a hell of a time with that tablet. Hope it starts listening to the threats I can only imagine you are giving it.
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I find a mouse generally works well if you zoom in so obscenely far you can see the microorganisms that were living on the page when you drew it...
Hahaha, I love your story. Make a comic out of it. :P
While a tablet takes a bit of getting used to, I never found the transition to be as difficult as what you are describing. That price was AWFULLY cheap, you must have gotten suckered into buying a faulty tablet.
My first tablet was an Artpad II. If the Intuos is a Cadillac, the Graphire is a Honda Civic - nice and functional, without maybe all the bells and whistles. My Artpad II was more like a Pinto and I didn't have as much trouble as what you describe.
Sorry that didn't work out for you. I'd encourage you to buy one from a reputable dealer and try again. Even the refurbished ones usually come with a warranty, and if you find you still don't like it you should be able to return it.
I play on Virtue and have all 12 slots full and I'm tired of listing them all here so NYAH!
Yeah I'd been doing pretty well with a mouse for photomanipulations, but I really wanted extra control to try and do some digital coloring. Little did I know that drawing with a tablet is like drawing with a goddamned etch-a-sketch. Whenever you lift your pen, the cursor goes away and reappears wherever you put the pen back down. HOWEVER since the entire tablet surface constitutes your entire computer screen (NOT THE CANVAS), I have NO FREAKING IDEA where the pen is going to come down. And, as noted in my list, the tablet LOVES to pick up on that pen. So I have lines that connect all of my other lines since otherwise I have no idea where my cursor is or will be. Sure I could erase them. But how will I know where my eraser will be?
I wish there was someway to turn off the mobile cursor, I just want it to stay put dammit!!!
Edit: Thunder, as far as I can tell the tablet is working exactly as intended, which makes people who use them either geniuses or UNHOLY MASOCHISTS.
I'm voting on the latter.
But I found out how to adjust the sensitivity on it a little bit so it's not QUITE as sensitive as it was. I still hate the independent cursor [censored].
HA! My wife has the same exact problems, here's what I tell her:
1) Don't think of the 4 x 5 as being finite, it's "Tablet Space", so your brain has to adjust to the laws of physics being broken.
2) Your mind and your hand, arm, wrist must be one young padawan (this brings out all kind of french curses at me) for the pen/lightsaber of woot goodness to work.
3) Duct tape your forearm to the table surface and just move your wrist. It's a reverse of that Kill Bill scene where she tries to move her toes. You're trying not to move anything else but your hand.
4) An inch on the screen is a micro-nano inch on the tablet, get use to it, the tablet will mock you everytime you try to break that constant.
When you finally get all of that done, you will one day look at your mouse like the tricycle of art tools it once was... and you'll want wait for it... a bigger tablet!!!
Have fun!
LJ
Never taunt... the HappyFunTablet.
Never look directly at HappyFunTablet.
Always wash with an antibacterial soap after using HappyFunTablet.
Do not allow HappyFunTablet near your eyes.
Individuals with a heart condition should see a Doctor before using HappyFunTablet.
I got a 11X14(?) wacom for graduation (After much hinting and leaving the webadress all over the place) only to have my perfectly legal (wink wink) copy of Photoshop 7 stop working for me two months later.
MS paint... I loathe thee.
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I travelled back home yesterday and I arrived to find my new graphire 3 4x5 tablet waiting for me on my doorstep (which was kind of annoying because I put a hold on my mail and my neighbor was supposed to pick up what was slipping through 
)
Well of course I had to bust it out right away, and now I have a list of things I've learned from almost 24 hours with my new tablet:
1) The tablet is very shiny
2) The tablet is easy to install
3) The tablet comes with a lot of software, all of which looks very fun.
4) The software is also easy to install.
5) Drawing on a tablet is nothing at all like drawing on paper.
6) The pen does not have to be touching the tablet for the cursor to move.
7) The pen does not necessarily have to be in the same room as the tablet for the cursor to move.
8) The packaging of the tablet shows happy smiling people surrounded by beautifully retouched photos and pretty sketches.
9) My photo retouches/drawings look nothing like those on the package.
10) I look nothing like the happy smiling people.
11) The tablet does not respond well to threats.
12)
or yelling.
13)
or cajoling.
14) I cannot bargain with the tablet.
15) The tablet is very smug.
16) The tablets shininess mocks me.
17) I understand now why I was able to buy the only slightly used tablet on e-Bay for the low low price of $36.
18) The tablet can be run over several times before it breaks.
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ROFLMAO! X 1,000,000!
If you want to get a better paper feel, if your pen has interchangible nibs, use the felt ones, I love them, they add so much extra friction and since I naturally press hard they stop the pen from slipping (the default plastic ones suck).
Also, you'll get better with time... once you work out HOW to use a tablet, it makes art soooo much easier!
Hover your pen tip over the surface - not touching but not far enough to make the cursor go away. Also, there are options to make the tablet work like infinite space (ie your mouse and mouse pad). It may also help to think of the tablet as your screen and to maximize your PS window; more so if you use the full screen option in PS which will minimize all the UI. This may be a more comfortable starting point.
I'll assume its a Wacom as I kinda skimmed the post. You can adjust the screen mapping on your tablet to work just in a specified area. When you set it up it takes a snapshot of your current screen so you can map it to your canvas just right. It will also take a bit of time to get comfy with it, but its well worth it 
Yep, it's a Graphire 3, which I have lovingly named "DAMMIT!"
If you can tell me how to turn off the infinite space, or restrict the sensitivity to the canvas, I will be eternally grateful to you 
And Saggitary, thanks, that actually works some!
Also, I've found that part of the problem is that the pressure sensitivity doesn't work in Painter Lite (or whatever the hell the "we know you didn't buy a Graphire to do serious art so here's a scaled down version for you" software is called). Apparently this is a problem the Graphire 3 has because the folks at Cnet.com encountered the same thing. I'm in photoshop now and it's going a liiiiittle bit better. Luckily I'm unemployed ( 
) and have some time to mess around with this demon machine.
I WILL NOT LET IT CONQUER ME!!!
Slay the beast Star! *dons his suit of armor* Got your back if ya need me...for now I will just go look for a dragon. *mounts his trusty steed and gallops off*
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My tablet took a bit getting used to...at least for me. My 5 year-old niece took to it quite easily <shakes head>. After, you do get used to it, you'll never look at your mouse the same again. 
I took to my tablet pretty easily too. Probably because I have a pretty well developed sense of eye-hand coordination. Keep practicing, you'll get used to it! Just use it a lot, and you can always zoom WAAY in for ultimate control and detail, don't forget!
I'm lucky... I get to use my stylus directly on my screen, so I don't have that logical disconnect problem
OK my frst 3 months of tablet experience.
1. It is very frustrating for the 1st 2 to 3 weeks ajusting to looking at the screen vs your hand, the size differences etc.
2. Except that there is a learning curve and that certian things that you take for granted on paper work differently, or my require new approaches on the tablet.
3. Once you get past those things it is a WONDERFUL TOOL. Blending and coloring in ps using a tablet are great, but you can not forget ps basics. Layers and plenty of them. Learning exactly what each brush does effects hwo the tablet pressure reacts. Sometime pressure will cuase tapering etc, sometimes rate of flow, someime amount of effect. You really need to pay attention at first. BUT once you get that is becomes much easier because changing pens, flow, etc almost becomes a thing of the past.
Stick with the tablet you will grow to love it, just do not throw it first.
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I travelled back home yesterday and I arrived to find my new graphire 3 4x5 tablet waiting for me on my doorstep (which was kind of annoying because I put a hold on my mail and my neighbor was supposed to pick up what was slipping through )
Well of course I had to bust it out right away, and now I have a list of things I've learned from almost 24 hours with my new tablet:
1) The tablet is very shiny
2) The tablet is easy to install
3) The tablet comes with a lot of software, all of which looks very fun.
4) The software is also easy to install.
5) Drawing on a tablet is nothing at all like drawing on paper.
6) The pen does not have to be touching the tablet for the cursor to move.
7) The pen does not necessarily have to be in the same room as the tablet for the cursor to move.
8) The packaging of the tablet shows happy smiling people surrounded by beautifully retouched photos and pretty sketches.
9) My photo retouches/drawings look nothing like those on the package.
10) I look nothing like the happy smiling people.
11) The tablet does not respond well to threats.
12)
or yelling.
13)
or cajoling.
14) I cannot bargain with the tablet.
15) The tablet is very smug.
16) The tablets shininess mocks me.
17) I understand now why I was able to buy the only slightly used tablet on e-Bay for the low low price of $36.
18) The tablet can be run over several times before it breaks.
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LMAO!!
awww poor Star!
Anything I can do to help just let me know
I'm trying very hard to love the tablet. It's just a lot of effort. If I could figure out how to keep the cursor where it is instead of having it disappear every time I lift the pen it would go a long way. I don't wanna hear about you and your cintinq Paladin!!! *shakes fist*
I also haven't messed around in Photoshop before (never having had it before 
) but it's an interesting program.
I've come across a very irritating problem in the last few minutes in that my eraser doesn't want to erase any more. When I flip it over to erase, it lays down a line of the foreground color, only thinner and harder than the brush I'm using. I don't know how to get the eraser to work.
*bangs head on the wall*
Usually I'm fairly tech savvy, and I have excellent hand/eye coordination (i'm looking at you Rowr -_- ) but this stupid thing has me stumped.
My personal hint for seeing cursor without having the pen draw. Take your middle finger and drop it down to the pen tip. Use the side of your finger on the tablet for contact not the pen, if you potition right this should allow you to conforably hover the pen over the surface with no drawing.
OOooo Celsia, that works GREAT!!!! I've also started positioning the tip with the eraser, then holding the space with my finger and putting the drawing point down XD
But after HOURS AND HOURS of work, I managed to color in a verrry simple little drawing. Be kind
That's better than I've ever done with my tablet.
I travelled back home yesterday and I arrived to find my new graphire 3 4x5 tablet waiting for me on my doorstep (which was kind of annoying because I put a hold on my mail and my neighbor was supposed to pick up what was slipping through
)
Well of course I had to bust it out right away, and now I have a list of things I've learned from almost 24 hours with my new tablet:
1) The tablet is very shiny
2) The tablet is easy to install
3) The tablet comes with a lot of software, all of which looks very fun.
4) The software is also easy to install.
5) Drawing on a tablet is nothing at all like drawing on paper.
6) The pen does not have to be touching the tablet for the cursor to move.
7) The pen does not necessarily have to be in the same room as the tablet for the cursor to move.
8) The packaging of the tablet shows happy smiling people surrounded by beautifully retouched photos and pretty sketches.
9) My photo retouches/drawings look nothing like those on the package.
10) I look nothing like the happy smiling people.
11) The tablet does not respond well to threats.
12) or yelling.
13) or cajoling.
14) I cannot bargain with the tablet.
15) The tablet is very smug.
16) The tablets shininess mocks me.
17) I understand now why I was able to buy the only slightly used tablet on e-Bay for the low low price of $36.
18) The tablet can be run over several times before it breaks.