New Additions

For Christmas I am asking for a drawing tablet. I have had one before but 1. It was a knockoff, and 2. It was mainly for drawing. Now I am getting one to include my illustrations into my designs for school and also to edit my pictures with more precision. I want the Intuos Pen and Touch by Wacom because it's a perfect for my needs. It has supreme pressure sensitivity so that when I'm using a tool on photoshop I don't have to adjust the settings on it every time I wanted a different size or opacity. When swiping with the pen that comes with the tablet, it automatically changes the opacity by how much pressure you apply. I seriously think this is the best thing since sliced bread. This setting cuts my drawing/designing time in half. Another example of the greatness of pressure sensitivity would be the fact that I would never have to use the zoom tool in photoshop ever again! All I'd have to do with the tablet is pinch my fingers together to zoom out and pull apart my fingers to zoom in, just like you would do on an iPhone. These perks are very minor but all together it saves me from doing things manually which take a lot of time. It also has a keyring in the center that you can set your favorite software shortcuts to. So press one button and photoshop is open, it's that fast! My favorite thing about the entire tablet is the pen. You are actually writing, drawing, and swiping with the maximum amount of precision. Whereas with a mouse, you can only do limited robot-like movements. Imagine trying to draw a perfect circle with a mouse, that is what I mean by robot-like movements. When you are actually drawing with a pen, I can edit someones eyes or anything that's round a thousand times faster and sharper!

This tablet will be a great addition to my cute little collection of photography gear. What I really want is a new camera, but that will have to wait for now. I don't exactly have a thousand dollars laying around that I can spend on a new camera. Especially since I haven't even started taking photography classes yet!