Inkling

I finally got my Wacom Inkling last Monday. I haven't had a great deal of time to play with it because I was out of town on school visits. It's a pretty neat device for recording ideas on the go. If you hate drawing with an ink pen this will not be good for you. It plugs into your USB port and then easily transfers files right into Photoshop at 600 DPI. It can also send the files to Illustrator as vector art, but I haven't played with that option yet.



Here is an image I created with the Inkling and then what it looked like after I went over that image with ink in Photoshop. I was just roughing out a storyboard on paper wit the Inkling and as you can see, it not only captures drawing but writing too. The pen is also rechargeable and has a 3 hour life. Also you can create layers to your artwork with just the push of a button.

Art Tip Tuesday ! Setting up your Wacom

This is an easy and short tip this Tuesday. For those of you using a wacom tablet make sure to set your tablet up to make it easy on you.

1. Set button on the stylus pen to the (alt) key. This way you can pick colors easily off of your canvass as you work.

2. Set one of your buttons on the wacom to the following keys (control) (alt) and (z) in photoshop this will give you a number of undos every time you hit the button.

3. Set another button to the (spacebar) key. This way you can move the image around with the hand tool easily as you work.

Till next Tuesday!
-Steve