Re: [Gimp-user] Wacom Tablet For Flower Photographer and Software Developer

2010-10-13 Thread Rob Antonishen
>> Some of the higher end tablets allow for screen toggling (i.e. toggle >> the screen the tablet is active on) so you need to check that. > > I would have expected this to be the task of the operating system, not > the tablet. > Not windows (at least not with my Wacom graphire using bamboo driver

Re: [Gimp-user] Wacom Tablet For Flower Photographer and Software Developer

2010-10-12 Thread Johan Vromans
Rob Antonishen writes: > Some of the higher end tablets allow for screen toggling (i.e. toggle > the screen the tablet is active on) so you need to check that. I would have expected this to be the task of the operating system, not the tablet. -- Johan ___

Re: [Gimp-user] Wacom Tablet For Flower Photographer and Software Developer

2010-10-12 Thread Rob Antonishen
The dual monitor setup is also an issue for some tablets. If you map the area of both screens to the tablet area you will either have a different aspect ratio (bad for drawing) or only use a portion of the tablet. Some of the higher end tablets allow for screen toggling (i.e. toggle the screen th

Re: [Gimp-user] Wacom Tablet For Flower Photographer and Software Developer

2010-10-12 Thread jeremy jozwik
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Robert L Cochran wrote: > Would a Wacom also be of use to someone like me, I'm just a software > developer, but I was wondering if I could connect a Wacom to a TV and > draw diagrams right on the Wacom which could then show on TV. Or am I > off base there? I too ha

[Gimp-user] Wacom Tablet For Flower Photographer and Software Developer

2010-10-12 Thread Robert L Cochran
I've been following the discussion of Wacom tablets with great interest. My wife has a birthday coming up. She has a collection of over 125,000 flower photographs which she mostly likes to view on a Windows XP computer with two widescreen monitors. I am thinking of presenting her with a Wacom

Re: [Gimp-user] Wacom tablet

2010-10-11 Thread Patrick Horgan
On 10/11/2010 07:22 AM, gerard82 wrote: > ... elision by patrick ... > Thanks for your reply Patrick. > I'm on Gentoo Linux which forces you to learn the inner workings of Linux. > I know about the lag of Linux but there's a lot of source code available that > you can compile yourself.Double fun.

[Gimp-user] Wacom tablet

2010-10-11 Thread gerard82
>On 10/09/2010 06:36 AM, gerard82 wrote: >> I want to buy a Wacom tablet for use in Gimp. >> I browsed the web and noticed they come in different sizes. >> Is size important and why? >> Also some come with "touch" is it of any use in Gimp? >> Gerard. >> >Just my 2 cents here. Someone pointed o

Re: [Gimp-user] Wacom tablet

2010-10-10 Thread Patrick Horgan
On 10/09/2010 09:56 AM, Ofnuts wrote: >On 09/10/2010 15:36, gerard82 wrote: > >> I want to buy a Wacom tablet for use in Gimp. >> I browsed the web and noticed they come in different sizes. >> Is size important and why? >> > Not *that* important... bigger tablets mean wider moves, but

Re: [Gimp-user] Wacom tablet

2010-10-10 Thread Patrick Horgan
On 10/09/2010 07:27 AM, Norman Silverstone wrote: > >> I want to buy a Wacom tablet for use in Gimp. >> I browsed the web and noticed they come in different sizes. >> Is size important and why? >> Also some come with "touch" is it of any use in Gimp? >> > I use the Wacom Bamboo for editin

Re: [Gimp-user] Wacom tablet

2010-10-10 Thread Patrick Horgan
On 10/09/2010 07:07 AM, Johan Vromans wrote: > gerard82 writes: > > >> I browsed the web and noticed they come in different sizes. >> Is size important and why? >> > Size is important since it determines how accurately you can draw. No, that's not true, the precision determines that a sm

Re: [Gimp-user] Wacom tablet

2010-10-10 Thread Patrick Horgan
On 10/09/2010 06:36 AM, gerard82 wrote: > I want to buy a Wacom tablet for use in Gimp. > I browsed the web and noticed they come in different sizes. > Is size important and why? > Also some come with "touch" is it of any use in Gimp? > Gerard. > Just my 2 cents here. Someone pointed out to me

[Gimp-user] Wacom tablet

2010-10-09 Thread gerard82
>I want to buy a Wacom tablet for use in Gimp. >I browsed the web and noticed they come in different sizes. >Is size important and why? >Also some come with "touch" is it of any use in Gimp? >Gerard. Thank you all for your answers. I'll buy a bamboo active area 217x137 mm ~8.5x5.5 ins. It sells her

Re: [Gimp-user] Wacom tablet

2010-10-09 Thread Ofnuts
On 09/10/2010 15:36, gerard82 wrote: > I want to buy a Wacom tablet for use in Gimp. > I browsed the web and noticed they come in different sizes. > Is size important and why? Not *that* important... bigger tablets mean wider moves, but bigger tablets are also more accurate. Personally I like m

Re: [Gimp-user] Wacom tablet

2010-10-09 Thread Norman Silverstone
> I want to buy a Wacom tablet for use in Gimp. > I browsed the web and noticed they come in different sizes. > Is size important and why? > Also some come with "touch" is it of any use in Gimp? I use the Wacom Bamboo for editing photographic images and am very satisfied with what it does. To be

Re: [Gimp-user] Wacom tablet

2010-10-09 Thread Johan Vromans
gerard82 writes: > I browsed the web and noticed they come in different sizes. > Is size important and why? Size is important since it determines how accurately you can draw. And beware! The size of the tablet is misleading, it is the size of the active area that matters. For example, the Intuos

[Gimp-user] Wacom tablet

2010-10-09 Thread gerard82
I want to buy a Wacom tablet for use in Gimp. I browsed the web and noticed they come in different sizes. Is size important and why? Also some come with "touch" is it of any use in Gimp? Gerard. -- gerard82 (via gimpusers.com) ___ Gimp-user mailing lis

Re: [Gimp-user] Wacom tablet

2008-01-20 Thread Mike Williams
On Jan 20, 2008 12:54 PM, Christopher Burkhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ralf, > Under vanilla Ubuntu, the Bamboo Fun does not run. Right now I am having > some other issues with my Ubuntu install at the moment, but it does take a > bit more effort then just plug and play. > > However, I am h

Re: [Gimp-user] Wacom tablet

2008-01-20 Thread Christopher Burkhart
Ralf, Under vanilla Ubuntu, the Bamboo Fun does not run. Right now I am having some other issues with my Ubuntu install at the moment, but it does take a bit more effort then just plug and play. However, I am having these problems in Vista with only Gimp, under other programs it is working fine.

Re: [Gimp-user] Wacom tablet

2008-01-20 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Am Sonntag 20 Januar 2008 schrieb Christopher Burkhart: > I am using Gimp 2.4.2 under Windows and I am trying to get my Wacom > Bamboo Fun working Hi Christopher, did you ever try to boot a recent Live CD (Kanotix, Sidux, Ubuntu)? I could imagine that your tablet works out of the box there. Reg

Re: [Gimp-user] Wacom tablet

2008-01-20 Thread Simon Nickau
I've had the same problems on my tablet PC, also with GIMP 2.4.2. I remember it working fine on Vista, although I'm not sure whether I had the same version of GIMP, it may have been 2.4.1 I did test it in Adobe Flash as well to see if it was an issue with the pen, and had the same trouble, so I th

[Gimp-user] Wacom tablet

2008-01-19 Thread Christopher Burkhart
I am using Gimp 2.4.2 under Windows and I am trying to get my Wacom Bamboo Fun working and I am having some issues. For instance the pen quits working, and it doesn't seem to recognize the two different tips of the stylus. Also the pressure sensitivity responds in wacky ways, for example its not