Hello everybody! I'm very glad now because yesterday I recieved my new tablet, so there is one day tests behind me :) I know that it probably isn't enough time to talk about it, but I believe that fresh entusiastic observations could be more interesting than cold analistic ones. So I will post another review in a few months, and alternatively I will describe all disadvantages of this hardware. But this time take a look about advantages :)
It will be very subiective review, because I haven't worked on LARGE size before, and my lovely old tablet was bought in 2006 so you see I worked on it by over 6 years, and here we have a 5 generations higher stuff.
I worked sometimes on Intuos4 a5 who belong to
Noiprox, but I hated reinstalling wacom drivers, so I just stopped borrowing it from him and just worked on my Graphire4 a5.
But now I have a fantastic new tablet straight from wacom factory :D
1: It is HUUGE. A4 size is really big, so if you dont have a big desk, don't buy this size.
2: I love the design. The little spotlights are just awesome. Intuos5 looks just cheerful ^^
3: TOUCH PAD... Omg, its really fantastic featureee! With it there is no need to work with keyboard! I programmed some gestures; for example 4fingers up - the erese tool. 4 fingers down - brush tool, 5 fingers - save :D This is absolutaly awesome, and there is a lot of another fantastic feature, for example you can zoomed in-out, and rotate canvas very quickly and moreover - comfortably :)
4: Express Keys - the same feature as in Intuos4. Very helpful stuff. You can programm it how you want. Flip canvas? ctrl? undo? lasso? tranform tool? Anything you want :)
5: Touch Ring. They still didn't add 4 keys for 4 options, so you must click on it like insane, if you want pick from option 1 to option 4. So I just use only one option from it - brush size, because zoom and rotate I have on Touch Options ;)
6: Worked Area. Really nice in touch, smooth but with a tiny texture so there is more natural feeling than this slippery plastic from Graphir4.
7: Grip Pen. Absolutaly awesome. Thin, light like a feather and very comfortable... And it is all in this "soft" cover so I observed that he attracted a lot of dust to it and its hard to keep it clean, but that doesn't annoy me. I think this is more stabile than this poor Graphire pen, so i hope there will be no need to rescue this cover :)
8: For everyone who care: Yeah, Pen nib is flattering a little. But this is normal state I guess. I will be talking about it in few months :)
This is it for now. In the photo - my work area and funny chicken-dragon - first work in progress done on new tablet :)
Cheers!
