stbenge escreveu:
> Nice sketches.

thanks!

> I'm seriously thinking about buying this! Is it difficult to tell where 
> your strokes will end up in relation to your current drawing? How about 
> the precision, is it truly good?

It's really good.  Like I said to Darren above, I thought I'd feel 
awkward by drawing on a surface and looking at another surface for the 
result, but it simply goes smooth and natural, like drawing on paper. 
The cursor is there exactly at the point where you'd see your 
pencil/brush and there's no apparent lag between your moves and what 
happens on screen.

I'm really surprised you don't have a tablet!  Your Gimp paintings in 
your website are good enough as they are! o_O  then again, you're a true 
craftsman... :)

My best efforts so far with mouse only came to this:
http://i37.tinypic.com/2it1oit.jpg
http://i37.tinypic.com/2u95pcp.jpg

I had to draw a few bezier curves to help me limit the drawings to a 
certain region...

> As it is now, I end up making a lot of annoyingly loud clicking sounds 
> when painting digitally. Does the stylus have noisy buttons? Or do you 
> simply press down on the pad to apply paint strokes?

You rover it above the tablet and it moves the cursor, you touch the 
surface and it's click/draw (with precise and amazing pressure). 
Better:  the other tip of the stylus can be used to select another brush 
(most commonly the eraser).  So you flip the pen and it immediately 
gives you one of two different active brushes/tools. :)

BTW, in that first drawing I didn't have pressure set in the Gimp.  Only 
later I realized how to set it up.  With the paintbrush and a dissolve 
layer, it's truly friggin' astounding...

> And how about 
> scroll-wheel capabilities? In the Gimp I always keep a hand on the 
> keyboard and a finger on the scroll wheel to pan, zoom, etc.

There's a button at the lower part.  You push it from a distance while 
on canvas and you can grab it around.  When off canvas and in other apps 
it's equivalent to right-click to select popup menus.

> A lot of questions, but I'm getting excited about this!

It's truly exciting.  Funny thing is, I only came back to gimp because 
decided it would be a good time to finally learn UV-mapping in Blender 
and draw my own texture maps.  Then I started doodling and became 
furious at the mouse and searched around to see the state of tablets.  I 
found an online store physically close to where I live, phoned them and 
asked for my choice of tablet and price, took a bus without wait and in 
30 minutes was back home with a nice box. :)

Still had to wait some 4 hours while upgraded Ubuntu (2 times!) for it 
to work out-of-the-box (though not multitouch and the scroll button at 
the top seemingly only scrolls upward).

> If I get this, I'll have to post some images of my own ;)

We're all surely waiting for it. :)

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