Wacom Intuos4 Small Pen Tablet Review

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Product DescriptionWith a new design and features inspired by members of the professional creative community, Intuos4 redefines the pen tablet experience. Featuring Wacom¿s new pen tip sensor technology and 2,048 levels of pen pressure sensitivity, the Intuos4 pen captures the most subtle nuances of pressure, allowing you to dynamically adjust exposure, brush size, opacity and more. User-defined ExpressKeys activate frequently used shortcuts and modifiers. The finger-sensitive Touch Ring quickly controls up to 4 different functions such as canvas rotation, zoom, scroll, brush size and more.

Wacom Intuos4 Small Pen Tablet

Customer Reviews:* All the product info is on the Wacom site and there are plenty of reviews here to give you an idea of what people may or may not like, though honestly the intuos4 is your best choice for a tablet at this point in time (but you probably already knew that.) So what I'm going to do is talk a little about the things I wish someone had been friendly enough to talk to me about years ago before I bought my first Intuos.I'm an artist, freelance photographer and web designer, why should you care? Well if you're doing the same things I am then maybe I can help you decide what size tablet you should buy. If you really want a Wacom tablet chances are no one is going to change your mind and all that's left to decide is what size to get and how you're going to justify spending so much money (until the tablet arrives and you can only think about how cool it is.) I do a little digital painting and sketching, usually just for fun, the majority of my painting and drawing is done with traditional materials. I'm not a digital artist, but all the best digital artists I know have a really strong background in traditional painting and drawing, so if you're a budding digital artist don't dismiss what I have to say just because I'm getting old and prefer pencil and paper, those are still valuable tools, and they're cheap! I do a LOT of photo editing and web design, that's the primary reason I have a tablet. I do a lot of detail work so I prefer to draw using my wrist as opposed to using my whole arm to make big sweeping strokes.When I first decided to buy a Wacom tablet I did a lot of searching around the internet and asked for opinions at art forums I was a member of. Most of what I found was people complaining about how "stupid art n00bs" constantly ask for advice about tablets when they shouldn't own one and the occasional comment from a professional digital artist about how they prefer the XL size, none of that helped me. So I bought a large Intuos2 because I thought that sounded like the right choice, it was huge. I loved the tablet but I found that I always ended up mapping a much smaller work area onto it, so all that extra space was usually wasted. I don't think it takes all that long to get used to using a tablet in general, but what did take some time was getting used to moving my stylus 3/4 the distance I wanted my pointer/brush to move. You see, a small mouse movement usually equals a large screen movement, but when you have a big tablet you have to make larger movements and it can feel a bit awkward at first.So recently I decided it was time to upgrade and I bought the small Intuos4, for me it's perfect.The tablet is about the size of a standard clipboard, it's thin and very portable. I can feel all the buttons and they're slightly tilted so as long as I remember which button is for what (or if I push the first one to see the on screen display) I can easily find the button I want and push it. I don't need the OLED display, I never look at the tablet while I'm using it. I never find myself running off the tablet or wishing I had more room. I have absolutely no problems with this product, it's exactly what I wanted, it's perfect for the work I do.My advice: give the small tablet a try. It's cheaper and if you buy a refurbished unit you'll get one that's practically brand new for around $50 less with a one year warranty, that's not a bad deal. You can take that $50 and buy a Belkin Nostromo game pad, program it with keyboard shortcuts for your favorite image editing program and cut your work time in half. There's no shame in having a small Wacom (giggle if you have to) a lot of people prefer the small because of how they work and the size of their workspace. If you buy a small and don't like it you can always return it and buy a medium instead.I hope all my rambling helps somebody... :D * First off, I have to say that I'm not an artist, so I can't really review this thing as someone who uses it on a semi-pro or pro level. I bought it to use for photo-editing, since I find it very hard to correctly mask/paint with a mouse. And for what I bought it for, it works perfectly.Very well designed, easy to setup, easy to use, works great, looks great. You get everything you need. You even get a bunch of extra nibs for the pen, to customize your "feel". Not being an artist, I couldn't tell too much of a difference between the nibs, so I am leaving the "stock" nib in.Is it perfect? Of course not. Is it worth the price? I would say a solid YES. The tablet really is designed well, the whole thing just fits/feels/works like you think it should. It's obvious they've been working with these things for years and have been able to fine tune it to get it to the point where it is now. Easy to switch from left/right (big deal for me since I'm a lefty). Easy to customize the buttons/interface for different apps, and it works right out of the box.BT/Wireless works perfectly, and for the short sessions I've used it, I haven't had any issues with battery life. It really is nice to be able to use it without wires, mostly because of the awkward USB location on a laptop. But Wacom does include a really, really long USB cable for it, so you can easily pre-wire it up in your setup and leave the cable there, no issues with it reaching to rear-plug USB ports.Overall, I can highly recommend this tablet. Works perfectly for what I bought it for. From the little bit of use I have with the free painting/drawing software you get for buying the Wacom tablet, I can imagine it would work well for beginning artists also. The combination of pen angle/pressure is very precise.