Graphic tablet, left handed and photoshop left side shortcuts?

[RiKToR]

I know someone who has a 4x5 Intuos 3 and hates it because shes left handed and the shortcut strips are on the left side. She keeps hitting the zoom and stuff. If you have an Intuos 3 6x8 or bigger though you can use the touch strips to the right for short cuts and you could create a more advanced short cut menu with one of the stylus buttons. It would take some getting used to but it would streamline the workflow.

[rawshark]

I use an A5 Intuos3 with photoshop and I'm left handed. Works great.
I tend not to use the buttons on the tablet that much, although on the Intuos3 they are symmetrical on left and right so it doesn't make any difference which hand you use.

I'd say I work at least twice as fast with the tablet, plus it's more accurate than a mouse and your hand doesn't get tired as the movement is more natural.

Guess it depends which wacom you're getting, but I wouldn't let the shortcut strip issue affect your decision - you'll never look back once you've used one!

[PanzerMKZ]

I don't have much with photoshop and I don't have a wacom. Being a righty and wanting to use shortcuts I find that things are built more for righties. But come on I got a whole hand that is most of the time sitting there for nothing. So my solution was to put the enter key and the delete key on the left side of the keyboard. remapkey for XP works sweet for moving around keys without buying things like lefty kb. Plus M$ gives away remapkey. linky is laying around here somewhere.



Panzer

[Lovliebutterfly]

Thanks for all these experiences and opinions. I was more concerned about shortcuts on the keyboard (CTRL Z, S, D CRTL+ALT+SHIFT S for e.g) than the shortcuts on the actual tablet. I suppose pratice could do the trick.
I'm right handed myself but I just wanted to have some opinions as my colleague is so stubborn about not being able to deal with the tablet that I wanted to know how the lefties our there manage with tablets.

[rawshark]

Well if your left-handed friend ususally uses a mouse with her right hand, then yes she'll have to make some adjustments to using a pen with her left and keyboard shortcuts with her right, but I can absolutely guarantee that the benefits of being able to move the cursor with your dominant hand FAR outweigh any difficulties.

Personally I just move the whole keyboard a little to the right and use my right thumb for Ctrl and my right forefinger for Shift and the other fingers on my right hand for Z,S,C,V etc.

Plus with it being a pen in my left, it's not like you have to put it down to use your left to press keyboard keys if you need to.

I also still have a mouse (on the right of the keyboard), and there's nothing stopping you from switching back and forth between the two (in fact it can speed things up even more).

Hope that helps to convince your stubborn friend!

[PanzerMKZ]

You know speaking of mice. I have see and tested a setup that uses two standard mice connected via usb. One on the left and the other on the right. Of course don't use both at the same time but for switching hands it is pretty sweet.



Panzer

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