I was trying to work with Krita for a while.Originally Posted by Ilanthar
In general, I liked it, but it was missing features I had in some other programs, but was nice to draw in.
That problem I described basically ended any use of Krita for me, unfortunately.
I updated Krita. Maybe it will get rectified in the future.
Like Kell, I have had larger cintiqs, so interface is not usually covered by hands in any way.Indeed it would be. That's the upside of digital art. But I totally get your point, I like to doodle on paper sometimes and of course I'm not bothered by my hand being "in the way" whatsoever. I guess it's also about the feel of my palm on the screen, my arm obscuring some menus in the program, stuff like that. And maybe it's just from a less than great experience with an overpriced product (though most reviews were very positive about the Surface Book). Perhaps I should have invested in a cintiq instead. In the end it get's down to personal taste.
What matters is that people like you are able to put out art and being able to easily share it.
I had thought of getting a Surface pro at one point.
I tried one in a store and was not pleased. It was not like using a cintiq, to me.
That said, I have not found a mobile device that has felt like using a cintiq.
So I am still tied to the desk, as it were. Except when doing traditional work.
That's actually one of the areas where I have some grievance with wacom... stands for cintiqs.If I may add something to the Cintiq question; I've been using the 22HD model for almost two years now, and I wouldn't even dream about going back.
I guess it depends on the model one is using, but mine has been almost perfect for me. The screen is only a little smaller than my main monitor, so the entire PS interface fits into it perfectly well and I never have to cover any of the utilities with my hand.
The tablet sits on its own stand rather than laying down on the table, so I'm not really leaning over it. You can adjust the angle to your liking. It's more like working on a paper on one of those painting stand things (sorry, no idea what they are actually called in English). To me, this works, as I've always preferred to work with the surface I'm drawing on at an angle rather than laying on the table. When I draw by hand (which I almost never do these days), I usually like to sit with my knees up and a sketchbook resting against my thighs.
I honestly have almost zero complaints so far. There has been one instance, where a Windows update screwed up the harmony of my PS and the Wacom driver and it took me a while to find a way to patch it up for a time. The next driver and PS update, which came out in a reasonable time, fixed the issues, and there have been no other problems since. The Cintiq has been a god-send for my drawing ability. I could never get used to the old Intuos I was using before - I worked with it for years and still found it difficult to get the hang of it. I had a few weird 'dead angles' that my hand and brain just couldn't get the handle on, and whenever I tried making a line in one of these angles it would always be 30 degrees in the wrong direction. It could take me 5-10 tries to get a single little line drawn correctly. None of this exists with the Cintiq. The screen also rotates 360 degrees on its stand, so I can even turn the screen if I find it difficult getting something drawn at a certain angle.
Like J said too, obviously take all of this with a grain of salt, as a Cintiq is mad expensive and you definitely should think it through carefully before getting one. But for me, personally, it has enabled me to do maps in a way no other device has come even close.
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Whooooo, that got a wee bit out of hand didn't it? Your thread is great, J, hope you don't mind too much about my lenghty praise on my baby...
My old 21ux came with an awesome stand. I loved it.
My later, even more expensive 27 replacement came with no stand.
The stand would be an additional $3-500. And they took away the keys on the wacom.
Replaced with the express key remote... that always turns off. Just when I would have needed to use it.
I am not thrilled with their drivers lately either.
For the amount that people must spend for these devices.. I am not entirely satisfied with their actions lately.
But, they are still far better quality than most of the competitors.
I have spent years trying to fix this problem.
I have searched the net and tried everything I could find.
The problem never consistently goes away.
It is a weird problem, because it is not consistent - meaning it is not always present.
Sometimes I can go the whole day without this problem showing up.
Other times, it is happening every other stroke of the pen.
It is equivalent to the wacom acting like pen pressure just drops off.
I call it the blobby pen syndrome.
It could be at the start of a new stroke, or even in the midst of a line...
pen pressure drops and the pen acts like it has no pressure sensitivity and just makes a fat blob of a line.
It's like it drops out for a second and then the pressure is back to normal.
I do a lot of quick strokes so when it happens i have to go back several steps in the history palette to correct it.
That costs me a lot of time when it is happening a lot. And it only happens in photoshop.
Not in any other program. None of them. But, adobe says it is a wacom problem.
The time interval between pressure drop is also not consistent.
It can be a very short interval at times, a few seconds between blobs.
Or it can be several minutes or more between the blobs.
shrug. But like I said, it is inconsistent. It doesn't happen all the time.
And none of the fixes have worked.
To say it is frustrating is not really accurate.
But, it has helped me to learn more patience and to redirect my frustration, sometimes.
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