What I don't like about my wacom tablet

#1

Or any tablet for that matter…

Is that you can’t turn it and flip it around like a piece of paper. Now that I have one, I realize how much I move my paper to find the right angle :curious:

I guess I’m not that great of a sketcher… my hand/wrist/elbow only go smoothly certain stroke directions ;).

Anyway, what do you guys suggest?

keep working on different stroke directions or rotate the actual tablet? I wish there was an easy/fast way rotate the actual digital canvas?

Also, could someone guide me where can I find a few Video tutorials for digital painting? I’m looking for some (hopefully) free high resolution videos similar to “speed painting” but at regular speed so I can follow up while watching the video.

I just need something to practice on…

BTW I have been looking in the tutorial thread and searching in the forum and many of the links are either dead or they are not quite what I was looking for. So, if anyone know of any please post it up :buttrock:

#2

You also can’t draw on it like a piece of paper. You should dislike Photoshop not the tablet. Corel Painter (and a few others) allows you to rotate the canvas and it’s of huge benefit. I’m almost sure that Photoshop CS4 will have the same feature when it is released.

#3

U can hit Ctrl + T and rotate it but… i dont like it anyway, it got pixelated a little, bad compared to corel painter.

#4

you could get one where you can draw on the screen.

#5

It will.

#6

yes it does wait for cs4 the rotate is butter

#7

AR 2.5 rotates canvas easy. Rotate 180 deg “/” command as well as Quick Mirror etc.Or just manually rotate canvas.For $25 US ,must say great little program.

http://www.ambientdesign.com/artrage.html

#8

i’m confused??
whats wrong with what fungicide suggested and rotating the layer, via shift T?? I can’t really see how this can be much different to rotating the whole canvas, which you can still do in a sense by linking layers together. Yes it pixilates while it is moving, but once it is out of transform mode, it will go back to looking the same, granted that there is no scale increase.
Saying all this, I guess it only will work when dealing with uniform canvas sizes, but still easy to work around when using non uniform canvas size.

#9

Rotating the Canvas and rotating all layers is essentially the same (using free transform tool). What most people want to do is rotate the monitor view of the image and not the pixels - this would preserve the image quality and allow one to paint at awkward angles.
Continual rotation (other than 90deg increments) of the pixels will ruin any fine detail fairly quickly, and you will be left with unrecoverable mush.

thomas

#10

ahh ok, thanks for clearing that up :slight_smile:

#11

yeah, rotating photoshop canvas’s at angles other than 90 degrees causes pixel resampling = loss of quality

#12

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