So whats the best product in photo shop ?
Elements ?

Is anyone using a Tablet and Pen ?
Intuit or Wacom  OR is everyone mousing there path and clicking ...

Models Fotog wrote:

So whats the best product in photo shop ?
Elements ?

Is anyone using a Tablet and Pen ?
Intuit or Wacom  OR is everyone mousing there path and clicking ...

I am currently using PS CS5 with a very ancient Intuous I tablet.

John Rayner wrote:

Peter Flanagan wrote:

Models Fotog wrote:

Is anyone using a Tablet and Pen ?
Intuit or Wacom  OR is everyone mousing there path and clicking ...

I am currently using PS CS5 with a very ancient Intuous I tablet.

If you can handle a mouse then no need for a pad. I have a pad but very, very seldom use it. Mostly for freehand drawing and even then the mouse gives you more control, depending on your drawing application. Photoshop is not designed to be a drawing application. It works about as well as driving a nail with a screwdriver. It will do the job, but there are better ones out there.

Translation, please?

John Rayner wrote:

if you can handle PS and or LR with a mouse, then there is no need to buy a tablet. I have both. I use the mouse for Photoshot and Lightroom. The only programs I use a tablet in are vector drawing programs like Illustrator, Corel Draw or Xara. Most of the time I will use a mouse in those applcations also. The only time a tablet is easier to use is when doing freehand drawing.

This is my opinion. Others might feel diferently, depending on their comfort level with a mouse.

Is that translation a little better Peter?

I have found that the tablet offers a vastly greater degree of tactility than does a mouse for editing bitmaps in addition to vector image drawing.

John Rayner wrote:

See... it is all up to your comfort level with a particuliar tool. I like mice, Peter like tablets. Both will do the same job.

sorry but I dont think its a matter of like but of functionality.  You can do way more way faster with a tablet in PS or any equivalent editing program.  finer control easier grabbing more precise input on irregular objects etc etc.  You get a copy of some sort of PS with Wacom tablets for a reason. there just is no such thing as pressure sensitivity on a standard mouse.

AVD wrote:

John Rayner wrote:

See... it is all up to your comfort level with a particuliar tool. I like mice, Peter like tablets. Both will do the same job.

sorry but I dont think its a matter of like but of functionality.  You can do way more way faster with a tablet in PS or any equivalent editing program.  finer control easier grabbing more precise input on irregular objects etc etc.  You get a copy of some sort of PS with Wacom tablets for a reason. there just is no such thing as pressure sensitivity on a standard mouse.

Exactly.

Dare2 be Photography wrote:

this forum was about addons  hopefully for elements  but at least photoshop

Psst... Brent... This is a thread, and we where talking about adding on to graphics programs. Tablets and mice are the most common tools used to interface with graphics programs. I guess you could use a joystick, trackball, thumbpad... but why?

Peter Flanagan wrote:

I don't know what kinds of plug-ins Elements accepts, but NIK and Alien Skin have a bunch of very cool plug-ins for Photoshop.  Alien Skin Exposure is great converting your images to Black and White - either using a canned emulaiton of a popular film, or through an extensive user interface.

I think all Nik plug-ins work with Elements. I know I loaded Color EFX Pro 3.0 into Elements 8 before I upgraded to CS5.